Intersectionality and Feminist Politics

This article explores various analytical issues involved in conceptualizing the interrelationships of gender, class, race and ethnicity and other social divisions. It compares the debate on these issues that took place in Britain in the 1980s and around the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism. It examines issues such as the relative helpfulness of additive or mutually constitutive models of intersectional social divisions; the different analytical levels at which social divisions need to be studied, their ontological base and their relations to each other. The final section of the article attempts critically to assess a specific intersectional methodological approach for engaging in aid and human rights work in the South

NACIONALISTIČKI PROJEKTI I RODNI ODNOSI

Nationalist projects are multiplex, multi-dimensional and historically specific. The main aspects looked at in this article are those relating to genealogy and origin, those related to culture and tradition and those related to citizenship and state. In all of them gender relations play crucial roles, constructing notions of femininity and masculinity, naturalize power relations and reproduce biologically, culturally and symbolically national collectivities. Feminist politics, aimed at the promotion of women\u27s position and power in all societies has had to confront the reality that their positions, as that of the men in their national collectivities, are constructed by a myriad of social divisions and other historical forces. Only by acknowledging and confronting differences among women as well as among men, can there be any process of political dialogue which could transcend and bridge these differences.Nacionalistički su projekti mnogostruki, višedimenzionalni i povijesno specifični. Među njihovim glavnim aspektima – koje razmatra ovaj članak – nalaze se oni vezani uz genealogiju i podrijetlo, kulturu i tradiciju, te uz građansko pravo i državu. U svima njima rodni odnosi imaju presudnu ulogu jer konstruiraju pojmove ženskosti i muškosti, naturaliziraju odnose moći i reproduciraju nacionalne kolektive biološki, kulturno i simbolički. Feministička politika, s ciljem promocije položaja i moći žena u svim društvima, mora se suprotstaviti stvarnosti u kojoj je njihov položaj, kao i onaj muškaraca u istim nacionalnim kolektivima, konstruiran mnoštvom društvenih podjela i drugih povijesnih silnica. Samo priznajući i suprotstavljajući se razlikama među ženama, kao i među muškarcima, može se uspostaviti proces političkog dijaloga kojim se mogu transcendirati i premostiti ove razlike

Introduction

Introduction to the edited collection Women Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity - a book which combines a detailed theoretical and historical introduction to Women Against Fundamentalism (WAF) with a collection of illuminating life stories by some its members and founders

Gender and Nation: Articulations of origin, culture and citizenship

El articulo traza algunas de las dimensiones mas importantes en las que las de relaciones de género son cruciales para la comprensión y el análisis del fenómeno de las naciones y elnacionalismo, y los límites especificos de inclusiones y exclusiones que estas dimensiones construyen. En cada una de ellas las relaciones de género juegan roles especificos y movilizanluchas específicas. El artículo contempla la naturaleza dual de la ciudadania de las mujeres,a la vez incluidas y excluidas del cuerpo general de ciudadanos; señala los roles de lasmujeres como trasmisoras de la cultura y como elemento cultural significativo para la colectividad nacional; y por último examina también su papel como reproductoras biológicas de la nación.The article outlines some of the main dimensions in which gender relations are crucial in understanding and analysing the phenomena of nations and nationalism, and the specific boundaries of inclusions and exclusions that they construct. In each of them gender relations play specific roles and have mobilised specific struggles. The article looks at the dualistic nature of women's citizenship, as both included and excluded from the general body of citizens; it points out women roles both as cultural transmitters and as cultural signifiers of the national collectivity; and eventually it examines their role as biologic reproducers of the nation

NACIONALISTIČKI PROJEKTI I RODNI ODNOSI

Nationalist projects are multiplex, multi-dimensional and historically specific. The main aspects looked at in this article are those relating to genealogy and origin, those related to culture and tradition and those related to citizenship and state. In all of them gender relations play crucial roles, constructing notions of femininity and masculinity, naturalize power relations and reproduce biologically, culturally and symbolically national collectivities. Feminist politics, aimed at the promotion of women\u27s position and power in all societies has had to confront the reality that their positions, as that of the men in their national collectivities, are constructed by a myriad of social divisions and other historical forces. Only by acknowledging and confronting differences among women as well as among men, can there be any process of political dialogue which could transcend and bridge these differences.Nacionalistički su projekti mnogostruki, višedimenzionalni i povijesno specifični. Među njihovim glavnim aspektima – koje razmatra ovaj članak – nalaze se oni vezani uz genealogiju i podrijetlo, kulturu i tradiciju, te uz građansko pravo i državu. U svima njima rodni odnosi imaju presudnu ulogu jer konstruiraju pojmove ženskosti i muškosti, naturaliziraju odnose moći i reproduciraju nacionalne kolektive biološki, kulturno i simbolički. Feministička politika, s ciljem promocije položaja i moći žena u svim društvima, mora se suprotstaviti stvarnosti u kojoj je njihov položaj, kao i onaj muškaraca u istim nacionalnim kolektivima, konstruiran mnoštvom društvenih podjela i drugih povijesnih silnica. Samo priznajući i suprotstavljajući se razlikama među ženama, kao i među muškarcima, može se uspostaviti proces političkog dijaloga kojim se mogu transcendirati i premostiti ove razlike

Changing the racialized ‘common sense’ of everyday bordering

The out-sourcing of border-guarding is not (just) going to paid expert agencies but is imposed as part of the unpaid daily citizenship duties of untrained people in Britain

The Frontline as Performative Frame: An Analysis of the UK COVID Crisis

In this paper, we examine the multiple significations of the “frontline” metaphor in the UK during the first ten months of COVID-19. We argue that the term “frontline” has operated as a performative frame, which has helped to produce the very notion and the materialization of the “COVID-19 frontline” and keyworkers. Showing how the UK gov- ernment has repeatedly cited this metaphor, we outline the contradictory effects it has generated through an interplay of hyper-visibility and opaqueness. The frontline meta- phor has been used to justify the government’s injection of massive amounts of public money into the economy, render hyper-visible workers who had previously been invisible, whilst generating a sense of civic responsibility. Simultaneously, however, the metaphor has created a smokescreen for corrupt practices, deflecting attention away from resource- starved health and social care infrastructures and intensifying forms of “everyday border- ing” and “everyday racism” that deepen structural injustices in the UK

Contested Narratives of the Pandemic Crisis: the Far Right, Anti-Vaxxers and Freedom of Speech

This paper seeks to open a discussion about the role played by the extreme right within the contemporary ‘anti-vaxxer’ movement as it has developed during the recent Covid-19 pandemic. While supporters of this movement are politically diverse, we see the far right as having used the Covid crisis as a significant opportunity to place their conspiratorial narrative before a wider audience, where a rhetoric of victimisation around pandemic related restrictions masks their deep authoritarianism and profound racism and misogyny. We discuss ‘white replacement’ theory as the key idea which animates the contemporary far right, in both its secular and religious manifestations, and we argue that this theory has offered the framework for the far right’s opposition to vaccinations and public health related restrictions. Throughout the pandemic, the far right’s use of conspiracy theory and calculated disinformation, particularly in the online space, has thrown up considerable dilemmas in relation to issues of freedom of speech for progressives. We conclude by discussing how the feminist anti-racist left must continue to defend freedom of speech in the face of this, but that this understanding needs to be informed by a conception of the ‘common good’