Building Relationships within Difference: An Anarcha-Feminist Approach to the Micropolitics of Solidarity

Mott, Carrie

doi:10.1080/24694452.2017.1385378

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“…Nevertheless, like all academic research, community‐based participatory approaches can reflect the white supremacist, patriarchal, classed, and ableist norms that dominate larger society (Mott 2018). Indeed, critics have described this mode of analysis as being “as white as professional golf” (de Leeuw et al 2012).…”

Section: Methodology: Research Practices For Feminist Commoningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the centre offers affordable and free space for trans and non‐binary organisations, sex worker collectives, anti‐racist and migrant‐led organisations. Taken together, these micro‐practices of solidarity (Mott 2018) are deliberate steps to negotiate the differences in embodied social privilege that accompany race, class, gender, language, and citizenship status.…”

Section: Social Enterprise At Kpc: Contradictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spaces for Feminist Commoning? Creative Social Enterprise’s Enclosures and Possibilities

McLean

2020

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This paper contributes an intersectional feminist analysis and methodological approach to debates about commoning and social enterprise. Through a narrative description of feminist social enterprise projects based on action research with the Kinning Park Complex, a social centre with a radical history in Glasgow's South Side, I demonstrate how contemporary community economic development models can entrench intersectional exclusion. Specifically, I show how market-oriented social enterprise models reproduce precarious work, hinder cooperative ethics, and promote depoliticised notions of difference. However, I also investigate the ways that community organisers and activists at KPC are reworking these neoliberal models to carve out spaces for feminist commoning. Through these acts, women-identifying and non-binary activists, artists, and community organisers grapple with the classed, raced, and gendered politics of community organising and foster solidarities across difference.

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Section: Methodology: Research Practices For Feminist Commoningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Enterprise At Kpc: Contradictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spaces for Feminist Commoning? Creative Social Enterprise’s Enclosures and Possibilities

McLean

2020

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“…and action (how can we prefigure more liberatory non-dominating worlds?). Anarchists, as well as feminists, have been at the forefront of considering these questions (e.g., Franks, 2014;Mott, 2018;Siitanen, Klodawsky, & Andrew, 2015).…”

Section: Towards Anti-fascist Rationalitiesmentioning

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“…The urgency of much anti‐fascist praxis can take on new forms as contexts and discourses change, often quite rapidly (Merrill & Pries, ), whereas it may also take on a slower and more deliberative approach when the threat is an everyday one linked to the geopolitical specificities of place (Mott, ). In the midst of everyday crisis in Greece, scholars have addressed how instabilities have been mobilised differentially by multiple political tendencies, especially the far right (Dalakoglou, ; Karamanidou, ).…”

Section: (Anti‐)fascism and Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Domination as “power over” is juxtaposed with the anarchist principle of “power with,” rendering power itself a terrain of struggle over which anti‐fascists operate. For Eisenstadt ( and others, e.g., Mott, ), anarchist practices such as anti‐oppression work are recognised as becoming , where non‐domination is a situated process to be nurtured, in relation to dynamics of place and belonging, rather than “magicked” into being as a singular or universal manifestation.…”

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Fragments of an anti‐fascist geography: Interrogating racism, nationalism, and state power

Ince

2019

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Extensive research exists in geography concerning racism and nationalism, yet there has been surprisingly little written on the far right, and even less on their anti‐fascist opponents. In the context of a resurgent far right, this paper draws together disparate work on this topic within geography to investigate the possibilities for the development of anti‐fascist geographies. While fascism and anti‐fascism have been chronically under‐researched in geography, I argue that there remains an insightful body of research in existence and that geographers are well positioned to undertake substantial work on the subject. Three connecting dimensions of an anti‐fascist geography are identified, namely, investigating not only racism but also the more‐than‐racist dimensions of the far right; their intersections with one another; and the development of anti‐fascist rationalities in geographical scholarship. Through this discussion, I suggest that the field of anarchist geographies offers a useful framework for these tasks, not only for empirical study but also for developing agendas to embed anti‐fascist principles into academic practices. By focusing in on the spatialities of far right and anti‐fascist politics, political geographers can position themselves at the forefront of this important area of work.

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Gender in Resistance

Katsikana¹

2021

A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time

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Building Relationships within Difference: An Anarcha-Feminist Approach to the Micropolitics of Solidarity

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Spaces for Feminist Commoning? Creative Social Enterprise’s Enclosures and Possibilities

Spaces for Feminist Commoning? Creative Social Enterprise’s Enclosures and Possibilities

Fragments of an anti‐fascist geography: Interrogating racism, nationalism, and state power

Gender in Resistance

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