Full Description
Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization brings together academic knowledge with activist strategies and lived experiences from different socio-geographic angles--bridging the gap between theory and on-the-ground impact.
The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare humanity's existential vulnerabilities. But ecological, economic, political, reproductive, and other instabilities have also shown us how we are connected to non-human species and planet Earth, and how human practices that have long normalized devaluation have in fact created the contemporary multi-crisis. In response to this historical moment, this book articulates visions toward fairer, more caring, and sustainable societies. It brings together feminist and queer scholars and scholar-activists from different world regions who write about critical crisis issues, offer reinterpretations of these crises and develop strategies of resistance. The contributions focus on three dimensions of crisis—ecological devastation and economic exploitation; political authoritarianism and violence; and the denial of reproductive justice and bodily autonomy—and combine systemic and situated analysis with a focus on agency.
This volume will appeal to scholars and students interested in transnational feminism, in areas such as Gender Studies, Political Science, Social Studies, and International Relations.
Contents
1. Introduction Part I: Ecological devastation and economic exploitation 2. Religion, nature, and queer theory: Planetary identities in a post-human world 3. Stories of care: Towards the repair of our life-worlds 4. Land Defenders and Ocean Warriors: Resistance to land grabs as a politics of social reproduction 5. Between the IMF and the far-right: Feminist resistance against financial violence in Argentina Part II: Political authoritarianism and violence 6. Beyond backlash: Unpacking the dynamics of political conservatism in 21st-century Brazil 7. Resilience amidst regression: Gender policy, political authoritarianism, and women's activism in Türkiye 8. Demanding state recognition, transforming political rights: Women's activism to end violence against women in politics in the Americas 9. Trading insecurities: Crime, gun violence and women's sensibilities toward policy reform Part III: Denial of reproductive justice and bodily autonomy 10. Infertile bodies, disrupted lifeworlds: Forced sterilizations in Peru and the extraction of Indigenous cuerpos-territorios 11. Mapping the body politics of autonomy and respectability: A comparative study of contemporary feminist movements in India and Ireland 12. LesboCenso and anti-gender offensive in Brazil: A transnational perspective in data collection, knowledge production, and lesbian activism 13. The Black Mothers Care Plan: Lessons for Black Feminist Health Research and Community-Based Praxis 14. Conclusion
