Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms: Visions of Feminism. Global North/Global South Encounters, Conversations and Disagreements

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In a world where frontiers are militarised and classifications systems defining rights and belonging are reinforced, transnational feminist agendas are fundamental. We use the concept of ‘scholarships of hope’ to analyse the diversity of feminist struggles and imaginaries in diverse geopolitical locations. Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms explores subversive practices of knowledge production that challenge Eurocentric scientific models and agendas. The book also explores the tensions and challenges of doing transnational feminist theory at the crossroads between feminist scholarship and feminist activism. In conjunction, these chapters provide a solid analysis framed by feminist methodologies opening complexities and contradictions of individual and collective feminist and trans identity struggles in Argentina, Belarus, Pakistan, Sweden, Taiwan and Turkey. These identities and struggles are rooted in transnational and local genealogies that go beyond the narratives of the West as the origin for democracy and human rights, providing powerful agendas for alternative futures. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction – transnational feminism: a working agenda Transnational feminism A position at the margins Scholarships of hope Notes References 2. Transnational messiness, political subjectivity and feminism across borders: in conversation with three Pakistani activists Introduction Theoretical perspective and material Contradictory messages A transnational place, products and interruptions Books and red materiality A messiness of economic normativities Messy education The educational look Conclusions Note References 3. Women resisting border regimes: two case studies from Eastern and Northern Europe Introduction Border theory and spatial meaning of resistance Informal cross-border economy as gendered resistance to multiple modes of marginalisation Resisting border regimes through same-sex marriage Conclusion: Border regimes and varieties of resistance Notes References 4. In, against (and beyond?) the state: women’s rights, global gender equality regime, and feminist counterpublics in 21st-century Turkey Introduction Feminisms and the state across the global North-South divide: A methodological discussion Turkey’s gender equality agenda and the formation of dominant and non-dominant feminisms (1980s–1990s) 2000s’ conjuncture for gender politics: Europeanisation and Islamisation Gender politics in issue-based platforms Feminist counterpublics The 2010s: women’s rights against feminism Feminism as an opposition front? Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes References 5. Is the social democracy gone? Performing feminisms in times of right-wing populism Introduction A note on performance and performativity The right-wing populist turn in Europe Performing post-social democracy in Sweden Identity politics Thanking social democracy Performing popularised feminisms Pop-politics and celebrity addresses Multi-solidarity Intersectionality Practising solidarity It is all about address References 6. Dreaming of home: a feminist strategy for importing the Nordic model to Taiwan Introduction Women’s work and social policy in Taiwan Making the state the People’s Home Rethinking Confucianism in social policy studies Communal family with participatory democracy Conclusion: the big communal family Notes References 7. Make(ing) room in transnational surges: Pakistani Khwaja Sira organising Introduction Terminological matters and the medical gaze Follow the money: Conditions for organising in neoliberal times Making history: The construction of the respectable gender variant citizen “They can learn from us. We can change the world”: Transformative strategies Notes References 8. Putting (left) politics back into (Western) feminist theory: conversations with feminist activists and scholars in Argentina Introduction Methodology Southern Theory: The making of scholarships of hope Transnational (feminist) solidarity Feminism stories: Feminism genealogies Epistemologies of hope: Unlearning racist legacies Epistemologies of hope: Towards a Che Guevara with red lips Conclusion Notes References Epilogue Index