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Interface Volume 3 Issue 2 Feminism, Women's Movements and Women In Interface: a journal for and about social movements Contents Volume 3 (2): i - iv (November 2011) Interface volume 3 issue 2 Feminism, women’s movements and women in movement Interface: a journal for and about social movements Volume 3 issue 2 (November 2011) ISSN 2009 – 2431 Table of contents (pp. i – iv) Editorial Sara Motta, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Catherine Eschle and Laurence Cox, Feminism, women’s movements and women in movement (pp. 1 – 32) Articles: feminism, women’s movements and women in movement Janet Conway, Activist knowledges on the anti-globalization terrain: transnational feminisms at the World Social Forum (P) (pp. 33 - 64) Lyndi Hewitt, Framing across differences, building solidarities: lessons from women’s rights activism in transnational spaces (P) (pp. 65 - 99) Eurig Scandrett, Suroopa Mukherjee and the Bhopal Research Team, “We are flames not flowers”: a gendered reading of the social movement for justice in Bhopal (P) (pp. 100 - 122) Akwugo Emejulu, Can “the people” be feminists? Analysing the fate of feminist justice claims in populist grassroots movements in the United States (P) (pp. 123 - 151) Finn Mackay, A movement of their own: voices of young feminist activists in the London Feminist Network (P) (pp. 152 - 179) i Interface: a journal for and about social movements Contents Volume 3 (2): i - iv (November 2011) Melody L Hoffmann, Bike Babes in Boyland: women cyclists’ pedagogical strategies in urban bicycle culture (action note) (pp. 180 - 186) Nina Nissen, Challenging perspectives: women, complementary and alternative medicine, and social change (P) (pp. 187 - 212) Special section: feminist strategies for change Sisters of Resistance, Why we need a feminist movement now (p. 213 and http://www.interfacejournal.net/2011/12/sisters-of-resistance-audio-file- download/) Nina Nijsten, Some things we need for a feminist revolution (pp. 214 - 225) Rosario González Arias, Viejas tensiones, nuevos desafíos y futuros territorios feministas (pp. 226 - 242) Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Independence vs interdependence (pp. 243 - 245) Roberta Villalón, Feminist activist research and strategies from within the battered immigrants’ movement (pp. 246 - 270) Elena Jeffreys, Audry Autonomy, Jane Green, Christian Vega (Scarlet Alliance Australian Sex Workers Association), Listen to sex workers: support decriminalisation and anti-discrimination protections (pp. 271 - 287) Jean Bridgeman, Wise women in community: building on everyday radical feminism for social change (pp. 288 - 293) Jennifer Verson, Performing unseen identities: a feminist strategy for radical communication (pp. 294 - 302) Jed Picksley, Jamie Heckert and Sara Motta, Feminist love, feminist rage; or, Learning to listen (pp. 303 - 308) Anarchist Feminists Nottingham, Statement on intimate partner violence within activist communities (pp. 309 - 310) ii Interface: a journal for and about social movements Contents Volume 3 (2): i - iv (November 2011) Articles: general Kenneth Good, The capacities of the people versus a predominant, militarist, ethno-nationalist elite: democratisation in South Africa c. 1973 - 97 (P) (pp. 311 - 358) Michael Neocosmos, Transition, human rights and violence: rethinking a liberal political relationship in the African neo-colony (P) (pp. 359 - 399) Roy Krøvel, Alternative journalism and the relationship between guerrillas and indigenous peoples in Latin America (P) (pp. 400 - 424) Tomás Mac Sheoin, Greenpeace: a (partly) annotated bibliography of English-language publications (pp. 425 - 447) Anna Feigenbaum with Kheya Bag, Ken Barlow, Jakob Horstmann, David Shulman and Kika Sroka-Miller, “Everything we do is niche”: a roundtable on contemporary progressive publishing (pp. 448 - 458) Reviews [single PDF] (pp. 459 - 477) Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport, Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activitism in the Internet Age. Reviewed by Piotr Konieczny SV Ojas, Madhuresh Kumar, MJ Vijayan and Joe Athialy, Plural narratives from Narmada Valley. Reviewed by Tomás Mac Sheoin Eurig Scandrett et al., Bhopal survivors speak: emergent voices from a people’s movement: Bhopal survivors’ movement study. Reviewed by Tomás Mac Sheoin Hilary Wainwright, Reclaim the state: experiments in popular democracy. Reviewed by Laurence Cox General material Call for papers (volume 4 issue 2): For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity (pp. 478 - 481) List of editorial contacts [no PDF] List of journal participants [no PDF] Call for new participants [no PDF] iii Interface: a journal for and about social movements Contents Volume 3 (2): i - iv (November 2011) Cover art The cover image is a photograph of street art from the Egyptian revolution, this version at Saleh Selim Street, the island of Zamalek, Cairo. The photograph was taken on 23 October 2011 by independent journalist, photographer and blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy who entitled it “Grenade is what you are having for dinner”. His blog, and his other photographic works from the revolution, can be viewed at http://www.arabawy.org. We thank Hossam for his permission to use the image. The next edition of Interface on the Arab Spring, out in May 2012, will include an event analysis of efforts to archive art work and other materials related to the Egyptian Revolution. About Interface Interface: a journal for and about social movements is a peer-reviewed journal of practitioner research produced by movement participants and engaged academics. Interface is globally organised in a series of different regional collectives, and is produced as a multilingual journal. The Interface website is based at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Articles marked (P) have been subject to double-blind peer review by one academic researcher and one movement practitioner. iv Interface: a journal for and about social movements Editorial Volume 3 (2): 1 - 32 (November 2011) Motta, Flesher Fominaya, Eschle, Cox, Feminism, women’s movements… Feminism, women’s movements and women in movement Sara Motta, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Catherine Eschle, Laurence Cox For this issue Interface is delighted to welcome Catherine Eschle as guest editor. Until recently co-editor of the International feminist journal of politics, Catherine has written with Bice Maiguashca on feminism and the global justice movement, as well as on the politics of feminist scholarship and other themes relevant to this issue. Introduction This issue engages with the increasingly important, separate yet interrelated themes of feminism, women’s movements and women in movement in the context of global neoliberalism. The last few decades have witnessed an intensification of neoliberal restructuring, involving the opening of national economies to international capital and the erosion of rights and guarantees won previously by organised labour (Federici, 1999, 2006). Neoliberal policies have driven ever larger proportions of the population into flexibilised and informalised working conditions, and caused a crisis in masculinised organised labour (Chant, 2008; Hite and Viterna, 2005), the collapse of welfare provision for poor families, and the privatisation of public and/or collective goods such as land, housing and education. As a consequence, poverty has been feminised and violence, both structural and individual, has intensified. In the main, women carry the burden of ensuring the survival of their families (Olivera, 2006; González de la Rocha, 2001), combining escalating domestic responsibilities with integration into a labour market that is increasingly precarious and unregulated. Furthermore, their integration is accompanied by accelerated sexualisation of public space, and the concurrent objectification and commodification of women’s minds and bodies (McRobbie, 2009). Such conditions serve only to deepen women’s experiences of poverty, inequality, exclusion, alienation and violence. At the same time, feminism seems to be in crisis. Prominent sectors of the feminist movement have become institutionalised and professionalised, including within academia, and in this context serious questions have been raised about how well they can defend women from neoliberalism and about their role in the struggle for a post-neoliberal, post-patriarchal world. The result is a paradoxical situation of defeats and de-politicisation, on the one hand, combined with new forms of re-politicisation, on the other. Women continue to resist, in both familiar and more inventive ways, attempting in so doing to redefine the nature of feminism and of politics and to challenge patriarchal and neoliberal orthodoxies. 1 Interface: a journal for and about social movements Editorial Volume 3 (2): 1 - 32 (November 2011) Motta, Flesher Fominaya, Eschle, Cox, Feminism, women’s movements… In this light, we suggest that there is an urgent need to revisit and reinvent feminist theorising and practice in ways that combine critical understanding of the past with our current struggles, and that create theories both inside and outside the academy to support movement praxis. There are, however, some obstacles to such a project. Feminist theory, which developed out of and for women’s activism, at times has been directly linked to and shaped by the dilemmas facing movement organising and at other times has represented a more distant and reflective form of thought. If many activists continue to find it useful in the development of their social critiques and the scrutiny of mobilised identities, the relationship of feminist theory to questions of
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