Cross-Border Solidarities in Twenty-First Century Contexts

Feminist Perspectives and Activist Practices

Janet M. Conway, Pascale Dufour, Dominique Masson

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781538157718
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Studi di genere

Conditions for global solidarities and social movements have changed radically since their high point in the 1990s United Nations conferences. This collection considers how political solidarities are being understood and constructed in a variety of cross-border struggles and for what ends under twenty-first century conditions. In studies grounded in different world regions at a variety of scales, authors address: how the Cold War divide and its aftermath have structured contemporary asymmetries in European LGBT movements and in 'global' feminisms; how 'colonial difference' in Latin America confronts feminist and social justice movements with problems of translation across worlds; how travelling concepts essential to constructing solidarities across distance and difference traverse linguistic divides and attendant power imbalances in world cities and transnational networks; how rurality as a form of colonial difference challenges established categories of intersectional feminism. Feminist politics of power and difference, and attention to gendered agency, are at the centre of this inquiry into the possibility of twenty-first century solidarities across borders.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: Transnational Solidarities Reconsidered: Crossing Borders in the Twenty-First Century
• PART I: TRANSNATIONALIZATION
• PART II: SOLIDARITY-BUILDING
• PART III: TRANSLATION
• Afterword: Reflections on Cross-Border Solidarities and Transnational Feminist Analytics
• References
• Index
• About the Contributors