Cross-Border Solidarities in Twenty-First Century Contexts: Feminist Perspectives and Activist Practices

by Janet M. Conway (Editor), Pascale Dufour (Editor), Dominique Masson (Editor)

Overview

Grounded in empirical studies of activist practices, this international and interdisciplinary collection employs feminist analytics to interrogate the possibility of emancipatory cross-border solidarities in contemporary contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538157701
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/08/2024
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Janet Conway is Professor of Sociology and former Canada Research Chair in Social Justice at Brock University. She currently holds the Nancy Rowell Jackman Chair in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Pascale Dufour is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Montreal.

Dominique Masson is Professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Janet Conway, Dominique Masson, Khalil Habrih, and Pascale Dufour

Part I: Transnationalization

1. Studying “Global Feminism” as a Transnational Assemblage: Geopolitics of Women’s Rights in the (Post)Cold War (1975–1995), Ioana Cîrstocea

2. European Solidarities across the East/West Divide: Power and Difference in Lesbian and Gay Transnational Cooperation with Poland in the mid-2000s, Agnès Chetaille

Part II: Solidarity-Building

3. Solidarity-Building as Praxis: Anti-Extractivism and the World March of Women in the Macro-Norte Region of Peru, Dominique Masson and Anabel Paulos

4. Allowing Rural Difference to Make a Difference: The Brazilian Marcha das Margaridas, Renata Motta and Marco Antonio Teixeira

5. The Cosmopolitical Challenge of Building Border-crossing Feminist Solidarities, Johanna Leinius

Part III: Translation

6. Power, Translation, and Localized Transnational Feminism, Geneviève Pagé

7. (Mis)translations in Translocal Solidarity-Building and the Need for Controlled Equivocation: Cuerpo-territorio in the World March of Women, Nathalie Lebon

Afterword, Manisha Desai

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