Generational conflict and the politics of inclusion in two feminist events

Stoltz, Pauline; Halsaa, Beatrice; Stormhøj, Christel

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“…The fact that white feminist interviewees identify as white is a first indication of the changes brought by intersectionality in Switzerland: the vocabulary of intersectionality has fuelled the need to acknowledge their positionality and privileged location. For most of these young white feminists, intersectionality is presented as a necessity, an imperative -often portrayed as a generational break with elder activists within the movement, a phenomenon also observed in other contexts (Stolz et al, 2020). Young white feminists in both contexts expressed the need to self-critique their movement on the basis of the absence of racialized women, and detailed their efforts in self-educating about intersectionality.…”

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Intersectionality as a new feeling rule for young feminists: Race and feminist relations in France and Switzerland

Calderaro

Lépinard

2021

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Black feminist theory and theorizations by feminists of colour have identified and explored emotions linked to race and racism in feminist movements, especially in the US context. Building on this literature, this article explores the changes in feminist emotional dynamics linked to race which have been brought up by the relatively recent adoption of intersectionality in feminist movements’ discourses in two European countries, France and Switzerland, which are both often described as ‘colour-blind’ contexts. Drawing on Hochschild’s concept of feeling rules, we argue that intersectionality has changed the ways feminists are legitimately expected to feel about race and racism within feminist movements in both contexts. As feeling rules vary according to the members’ positions within the movement, we contend that these changes in emotional dynamics contribute to redefine feminists’ relations and feminist membership along racial lines. Based on interviews with young feminist activists in France and Switzerland during mobilization processes characterized by a prominent use of intersectionality, we observe how intersectionality discourses bring about new feeling rules in relation to race and racism. These feeling rules differ for white and non-white feminists: while intersectionality has led young white feminists to self-education and self-critique, racialized feminists often expressed mixed feelings about intersectionality and its use, in particular by white feminists. Importantly, these changes in feeling rules have allowed racialized feminists to renegotiate their relations with white feminists and their emotional content, as well as their position within the movement.

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Intersectionality as a new feeling rule for young feminists: Race and feminist relations in France and Switzerland

Calderaro

Lépinard

2021

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…Beside these more high-profile forms of social protest, everyday struggles against ethnic discrimination and segregation have diversified in both form and content (Schierup et al 2006). These heterogeneous but vital responses embody not only a resistance against racism, but an extension of visions, strategies, and practices towards social inclusion and solidarity, which cultural theorist Paul Gilroy would grasp through the concept of conviviality (Stoltz et al 2019;Gilroy 2004). As the contributions in this volume illustrate, within such everyday resistances and new movements, the emerging forms of feminism play a central role.…”

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Contextualising Feminisms in the Nordic Region: Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Decolonial Critique

Stoltz

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Keskinen

2020

Feminisms in the Nordic Region

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“…Feminism is built around coalitions across race, class, sexuality, nation, and other axes of inequality (Carastathis, 2013;Lugones, 1994;Predelli, Halsaa and Sandu, 2012). Feminists also form coalitions with other movements, those that are ideologically similar and those with only narrow points of commonality (Binnie and Klesse, 2012;Bystydzienski and Schact, 2001;Gilmore, 2008;Stoltz et al, 2019;Whittier, 2018a;Yuval-Davis, 2011). Feminist coalitions have important emotional dimensions that can both facilitate and impede alliances.…”

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How emotions shape feminist coalitions

Whittier

2021

European Journal of Women's Studies

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This article develops a framework for conceptualizing the emotional dimensions of coalitions, with particular focus on how power operates through emotion in different varieties of feminist coalitions. The article proposes three interrelated areas in which emotion shapes feminist coalitions: (1) Feelings towards coalition partners: feelings of mistrust, anger, fear, or their reverse grow from histories of interaction and unequal power. These make up the emotional landscape of intersectional coalitions, which operate through a tension between negative emotions and attempts at empathy or mutual acceptance; (2) Shared feelings: feminist coalitions build on shared fear of threat or anger at a common enemy; and (3) emergent emotions in collective action. Coalition partners possess distinct emotion cultures. Joint collective action can cement bonds when all participants’ emotion cultures are reflected, or weaken coalitions when the reverse is true. In all three of these areas, organizers engage in emotional labour in order to create or maintain coalitions. These three dynamics are illustrated with examples from intersectional feminist coalitions, the Women’s Marches, and interactions between feminists and conservatives opposed to pornography.

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Generational conflict and the politics of inclusion in two feminist events

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Intersectionality as a new feeling rule for young feminists: Race and feminist relations in France and Switzerland

Intersectionality as a new feeling rule for young feminists: Race and feminist relations in France and Switzerland

Contextualising Feminisms in the Nordic Region: Neoliberalism, Nationalism, and Decolonial Critique

How emotions shape feminist coalitions

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