Editorial: Feminism, women’s movements and women in movement

Introduction to Special Issue that engages with the increasingly important, separate yet interrelated themes of feminism, women’s movements and women in movement in the context of global neoliberalism

Feminism, women’s movements and women in movement

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If I Ruled the World: Putting Hip Hop on the Atlas

“If I Ruled the World: Putting Hip Hop on the Atlas” contends for a third wave of Global Hip Hop Studies that builds on the work of the first two waves, identifies Hip Hop as an African diasporic phenomenon, and aligns with Hip Hop where there are no boundaries between Hip Hop inside and outside of the United States. Joanna Daguirane Da Sylva adds to the cipha with her examination of Didier Awadi. Da Sylva\u27s excellent work reveals the ways in which Hip Hoppa Didier Awadi elevates Pan-Africanism and uses Hip Hop as a tool to decolonize the minds of African peoples. The interview by Tasha Iglesias and myself of members of Generation Hip Hop and the Universal Hip Hop Museum provides a primary source and highlights two Hip Hop organizations with chapters around the world. Mich Yonah Nyawalo’s Negotiating French Muslim Identities through Hip Hop details Hip Hop artists Médine and Diam’s, who are both French and Muslim, and whose self-identification can be understood as political strategies in response to the French Republic’s marginalization of Muslims. In “Configurations of Space and Identity in Hip Hop: Performing ’Global South’,” Igor Johannsen adds to this special issue an examination of the spatiality of the Global South and how Hip Hoppas in the Global South oppose global hegemony. The final essay, “‘I Got the Mics On, My People Speak’: On the Rise of Aboriginal Australian Hip Hop,” by Benjamin Kelly and Rhyan Clapham, provides a thorough analysis of Aboriginal Hip Hop and situates it within postcolonialism. Overall, the collection of these essays points to the multiple identities, political economies, cultures, and scholarly fields and disciplines that Hip Hop interacts with around the world

The Quest for Alternatives beyond (Neoliberal) Capitalism

Capitalism is not the only form of economy. Alternative economies - people’s economies - exist in which human needs and relationships are more important than competition and profit. Forms of solidarity economy built on the principles and values of cooperation, equality, self-determination and democracy, exist and are taking shape in many parts of the world. These forms include household economies, barter economies, collective economies including cooperatives, worker-controlled economies, subsistence market economies, community budgeting, participatory budgeting, community-based local currency exchange systems, and ethical trading, among others. Labor organizations have also provided spaces for building capacities in the struggle to defy capitalism. The paper aims to contribute to the discourse on alternatives to capitalism. We go about by first examining recent works dealing with the issue of alternatives to capitalism (and neoliberalism). We define `alternative’ as an on-going multidimensional, non-deterministic process of people’s economic and political struggle beyond the capitalist logic, whether macro, meso or micro, to change their circumstances and simultaneously transform themselves in the process. Full development of human potential based on equality, solidarity and sustainability through democratic participatory processes is at the core of an alternative. Then, we look at how various forms of peoples’ solidarity economies and state-initiated democratic participatory schemes become spaces or provide spaces for the development of counter-consciousness (outside the capitalist `common sense’) and concomitantly build capacities for the development of projects, initiatives and economies beyond the capitalist logic. By addressing changes in the mode of production and the labor process within their spaces, we argue that many of these organizations, projects and initiatives, are the ‘materialization’ or actual manifestation of non-capitalist alternatives. The first chapter provides an overview of recent discourses on possible alternatives to neoliberal globalization and capitalism. The second chapter looks at consciousness and counter-consciousness and how these processes relate to building capacities that enable the construction of `alternatives.’ The third chapter analyses 13 selected cases (of peoples’ solidarity economies, workers’/producers’ cooperatives, alternative production systems and stateinitiated citizen democratic participation schemes) in terms of how they provide spaces for the development of counter-consciousness (outside the capitalist `common sense’) and concomitantly capacities for the development of projects, initiatives and economies beyond capitalism. We also outline in this chapter the overall lessons and insights drawn from the case studies. Finally, in chapter four, we tie the main points underscored by literature we reviewed in chapter one, with the cases we analyzed in chapter three. We argue that the material practice of peoples’ struggles fills the need for coherence on the alternatives to capitalism discourse. By bringing together and establishing a `dialogue’ between theoretical debates and existing meso and micro social experiments and initiatives, we attempt to address the gap between macro level theoretical discourses and micro level practices. We argue that there are emancipatory and transformative elements that can be learned from people’s practices and struggles, which allows for a more grounded framing of an alternative narrative beyond the capitalist logic. The chapter also recommends areas for further research

Latin American critical thought. Theory and practice

The resurgence of LATin AmericAn criTicAL thought in the late 1990s and the early twenty-first century has brought about some discoveries that distinguish it from the sociological production of the world. it is a scientific framework that has taken on the features of a new social scientific paradigm. A growing number of authors have aligned themselves with this perspective, with visions that include critical read- ings geared to contributing to transformative social change, in a Latin American context. Thus, we ask ourselves: What are the characteristics that distinguish Latin American critical thought and give it its identity? What are its germinal features and what are its unresolved matters? A distinguishing feature of this thought is its belonging to social sciences, particularly sociology and its traditions of critical theory, whose roots, as gramsci said, do not come from fundamentalist op- position but rather from the acquisition of scientific certainty on the basis of critical analysis (...

The Social Science Centre, Lincoln: the theory and practice of a radical idea

The Social Science Centre, Lincoln (SSC), is a co-operative organising free higher education in the city of Lincoln, England. It was formed in 2011 by a group of academics and students in response to the massive rise in student fees, from £3000 to £9000, along with other other government policies that saw the increasing neo-liberalisation of English universities. In this essay we chart the history of the SSC and what it has been like to be a member of this co-operative; but we also want to express another aspect of the centre which we have not written about: the existence of the SSC as an intellectual idea and how the idea has spread and been developed through written publications by members of the centre and by research on the centre by other non-members: students, academics and journalists. At the end of the essay we will show the most up to date manifestation of the idea, the plans to create a co-operative university with degree awarding powers where those involved, students and academics, can make a living as part of an independent enterprise ran and owned by its members for their benefit and the benefit of their community and society

L'Actualitat del concepte d'educació i política de Paulo Freire en la pedagogía crítica revolucionaria de Peter McLaren

Aquest treball de recerca presenta l'objectiu de demostrar la vigència del concepte d'educació i política de Paulo Freire en l'actualitat a través de Peter McLaren. És a dir, no estudiar l'obra de Freire i de McLaren per separat sinó la validesa d'aquests conceptes freireans en el pensament mclarenià d'avui en dia. Justificar com la pedagogia de Freire, a partir de McLaren, continua vigent. Es realitza a partir de la recerca de textos de l'obra freireana per mostrar que avui en dia posseeix una riquesa i actualitat sorprenents

towards a new pragmatics of cross- and intercultural criticism

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Utišane epistemologije: moč pričevanj in kritičnih (avto)biografij za sodobno izobraževanje

The central theme of this article is the question of whether the narrator of a witness account or a critical auto/biography can also be the (co-)author of a scientific or literary written record. Based on reflections from her own biographical research on revolutionary movements in the Global South and oppressed and silenced groups, the author has identified the characteristics of testimonies which she has positioned in relation to Santos’ Epistemologies of the South. The research is reflected through the author’s contemplation of her fieldwork over the last ten years and through examples of literary written records which have empowered social emancipation; it shows how the pedagogy of testimonies can be used innovatively in learning and research as well as how testimonies can also make a fruitful contribution to much-needed considerations on silenced epistemologies in the classroom and in society.Osrednja tema prispevka je vprašanje, ali lahko postane pričevalka ali pripovedovalka kritične (avto)biografije hkrati tudi (so)avtorica znanstvenega ali literarnega dela. Avtorica s pomočjo Santosovih Epistemologij Juga premišlja tiste značilnosti pričevanj, ki jih je identificirala prek biografskih raziskovanj ob revolucionarnih gibanjih na globalnem Jugu, iz izpovedi zatiranih in utišanih družbenih skupin. Na podlagi ugotovitev terenskega raziskovanja, ki ga je opravila v zadnjem desetletju, kot tudi prek analize najbolj odmevnih pričevanj, ki so korenito pripomogla k širši družbeni emancipaciji, prispevek pokaže, kako se lahko pedagogika pričevanj inovativno uporablja tako za izobraževanje kot tudi za raziskovanje, predvsem pa, kako lahko pričevanja prispevajo k sodobnemu razumevanje utišanih epistemologij tako v predavalnici kot tudi v širši družbi

The Subaltern and the State.

Some years ago Ileana Rodríguez posed bluntly what she felt was at stake in subaltern studies as follows: “[O]ur choice as intellectuals is to make a declaration either in support of statism (the nation-state and party politics) or on behalf of the subaltern. We chose the subaltern.”3 I will argue that this way of looking at the relation between the subaltern and the state (which is broadly characteristic of postmodernist social theory generally)  is too one-sided, and that we are in need of a new paradigm. To be more concrete, what happens when, as has been the case in recent years with many of the governments of the marea rosada in Latin America, subaltern or, to use the expression more in favor today,