Building Coalitional Consciousness

Keating, Cricket

doi:10.1353/nwsa.2005.0027

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“…The concern being raised by these scholars is that to speak about a universally shared plight of women ( particularly when one is a white woman) is, self‐defeatingly, to exclude (nonwhite) women from the conversation and to form a hierarchy within the feminist movement itself where only certain (white) women's experiences are acknowledged and others are again domesticated, marginalized, and/or excluded . That is, if an emphasis is placed on sameness to the exclusion of difference, then the central goals of consciousness‐raising speak‐outs—including the formation of lasting bonds of sisterhood and solidarity among women—is undermined; or, as Keating puts it, consciousness‐raising practices built upon the notion of a shared situation “[fail] to build or sustain long‐standing coalitions across lines of race, class, sexuality, and nationality” (Keating , 91).…”

Section: A Solution: Feminist Consciousness‐raising Speak‐outsmentioning

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A Call to Arms: The Centrality of Feminist Consciousness‐Raising Speak‐Outs to the Recovery of Rape Survivors

Kelland¹

2016

Hypatia

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This article explores the various challenges that survivors of rape and sexual violence face when attempting to construct a narrative of their experience under political and epistemic conditions that are not supportive: including the absence of adequate language with which to understand, articulate, and explain their experiences; narrative disruptions at the personal, interpersonal, and social levels; hermeneutical injustice; and canonical narratives that typically further the harms experienced by survivors. In response, I argue that feminist consciousness‐raising speak‐outs should be revived by contemporary feminists since they are able to do significant work to ameliorate the above‐mentioned challenges and thereby aid in the recovery of rape survivors.

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Section: A Solution: Feminist Consciousness‐raising Speak‐outsmentioning

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A Call to Arms: The Centrality of Feminist Consciousness‐Raising Speak‐Outs to the Recovery of Rape Survivors

Kelland¹

2016

Hypatia

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“…Individuals as Agents of Social Changes: Sociological scholarship on social change states that positive social changes are predominantly individual efforts via the notion of "consciousness-raising" (Keating, 2005;Guenther, 2009). Consciousnessraising is defined as the realization of an individual that one's personal issues are no longer personal, and those issues are common to others as well (Sewpaul, 2005).…”

Section: Leadership and Positive Social Changementioning

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“…Consciousnessraising is defined as the realization of an individual that one's personal issues are no longer personal, and those issues are common to others as well (Sewpaul, 2005). Hence, consciousness-raising transforms a personal concern into a public matter (Keating, 2005;Sewpaul, 2005;Guenther, 2009). Thus, social changes predominantly initiate with individuals and then get translated into larger social levels.…”

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“…Sociological literature on social change suggests that positive social changes mostly initiate from "consciousness-raising" (Keating, 2005;Guenther, 2009). Consciousness-raising is an awareness of an individual.…”

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“…This awareness enables the individual to realize that one's personal problems are not personal any more, and those are shared by many others (Sewpaul, 2005). Thus, through consciousness-raising, a personal problem gets translated into a public issue (Keating, 2005;Sewpaul, 2005;Guenther, 2009). Therefore, the beginning of social change primarily takes place at the individual level which in turn gets converted into larger societal changes.…”

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Building on the concept of leadership: An individual-focused perspective

Banjeree¹

2015

Journal of Leadership Education

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Very little is known about leadership at an individual level in the scholarship of leadership and social change. In this study using institutional ethnography as a research method, I survey graduate students of the Organizational Development and Leadership program of a mid-Atlantic university. Qualitative data analyses reveal that majority of the respondents believe that leadership has a micro perspective and can be practiced at individual level. Literature defines leadership primarily as a group dynamic. Literature also suggests that one of the functions of leadership is to facilitate positive social changes. Via the data analyses in this study, I propose that any attempt or idea that makes positive differences at an individual level (and not necessarily at the group level) can also be regarded as an effective leadership. Thus, I intend to build on the traditional concepts of leadership by underpinning leadership at an individual level. Future research should further explore this definition of leadership in enhancing the well-being of individuals.

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The Abortion Debate and Profeminist Coalition Politics in Contemporary Turkey

Ünal

2018

Pol & Gen

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This article presents a qualitative analysis of profeminist Islamic women public figures’ discourses in the abortion debate in Turkey in 2012. The aim is to reveal the possibilities and limitations of achieving an intersectional and egalitarian profeminist collaboration on the Islamic-secular axis in contemporary Turkey. Drawing on recent feminist scholarship on coalition politics, the article exposes the fluctuations of meaning and the shifting frames of reference in these women's narratives and relates this hybrid, dynamic narrative quality to profeminist Islamic women's unique social location. It also elaborates on the blockage points in these narratives that hinder coalitional ways of thinking. Within this frame, this article suggests that in a social and political context that has witnessed a striking upsurge of antifeminist gender politics in the last decade, the building of coalitional profeminist politics beyond the Islamic-secular divide can be facilitated by shifting the focus from the apparently irreconcilable character of ideological positionings and lived experiences toward coalitional rhetorical strategies and intermediary narrative lines in profeminist subjects’ accounts.

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Building Coalitional Consciousness

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A Call to Arms: The Centrality of Feminist Consciousness‐Raising Speak‐Outs to the Recovery of Rape Survivors

A Call to Arms: The Centrality of Feminist Consciousness‐Raising Speak‐Outs to the Recovery of Rape Survivors

Building on the concept of leadership: An individual-focused perspective

The Abortion Debate and Profeminist Coalition Politics in Contemporary Turkey

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