Global or local solidarity? That’s the wrong question: relationality, aspiration and the in-between of feminist activism in Southeast Asia

Anderl, Felix

doi:10.1080/14747731.2020.1838759

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“…Janet Conway (2017) has convincingly argued that, with some exceptions, 'transnational feminism' as an analytic has become somewhat unmoored from empirical study of cross-border movement practices. Clearly, it remains important to study how feminist solidarities have been articulated and practised across borders, especially those constituted at least partly by racism and imperialism (Moghadam 2000;McLaren 2017;Anderl 2022). Moreover, Conway insists we should pay close attention to the situated character of transnational feminism, 'to specific linguistic and cultural flows [and] ...their connection to place ' (2017, p. 222).…”

Section: Feminist Revisionings Of Solidaritymentioning

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2023

Z Friedens und Konflforsch

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This article critically examines the character and extent of transoceanic solidarity in feminist anti-nuclear activism. Drawing on archival research into a British-based solidarity network, Women Working for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (WWNFIP), the article centralises the rhetorical question ‘Why Haven’t You Known?’ demanded by Māori activist Titewhai Harawira of her British audience in 1986, and extends it to contemporary scholars of feminist anti-nuclear activism. The article makes three main empirical claims. First, the WWNFIP archive pushes Indigenous women from across the Pacific into the limelight as experts and teachers, with British-based counterparts playing a supportive role. Second, the archive foregrounds Indigenous knowledge claims about nuclear colonialism and correspondingly represents decolonisation as essential to nuclear abolition. Thirdly, solidarity is shaped in ambivalent ways by these knowledge claims, which simultaneously evoke sisterly closeness and the discomfort of potential white allies. Overall, WWNFIP’s relatively successful construction of transoceanic solidarity, notwithstanding some ambiguities and limitations, points to the crucial relationship between knowledge and solidarity. The case study not only offers some valuable lessons for contemporary efforts to forge anti-nuclear solidarities but also disrupts dominant accounts of feminist anti-nuclear activism, past and present.

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2023

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“…Such an approach is difficult work by necessity, because it neither presupposes equality and understanding, nor does it weaponize difference as argument against collective practice across borders. This work, therefore, forces activists to overcome the categories of “local” versus “global” in favor of a concept of solidarity that is generalizing and yet necessarily located in the particular (Anderl, 2020). In Mohanty’s field, this means to reorient feminist practice toward an internationalist anti-capitalist struggle (Mohanty, 2003: 12), which does not mean to overcome a localized feminist identity.…”

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False friends: Leftist nationalism and the project of transnational solidarity

Anderl

2022

Journal of International Political Theory

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A growing number of left-wing scholars criticize practices of transnational solidarity. Pointing to the cooptation of “globalism” by neoliberal capitalism, these scholars utilize this critique to advance leftwing nationalism. In this article, I reconstruct symptomatic texts of this genre and identify the critique of (liberal) cosmopolitanism as the common denominator in their calls for nationalizing the Left. As a consequence of their opposition to cosmopolitanism, these authors reject freedom of movement or global justice activism. In order to examine whether the project of transnational solidarity is affected by this critique, I reconstruct its justifications in Critical Theory and postcolonial-feminist theory. Hauke Brunkhorst and Chandra Mohanty exemplarily theorize transnational solidarity in different ways, but each based on a substantial critique of liberal cosmopolitanism. By that, I show that a principled return to nationalism derived from a critique of cosmopolitanism is informed by coincidental evidence that rejects practices of transnational solidarity because of their alleged embeddedness in cosmopolitan reason. Drawing on La Via Campesina, I illustrate principles of a transnational solidarity project that is not justified with liberal cosmopolitan ideas. Their experiences challenge the nationalist/statist critique while not falling back into naïve and/or neoliberal cosmopolitanism.

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“…In International Relations (the discipline within which I developed this project), the category ‘local’ emerged alongside other categories such as ‘transnational’ or ‘global’ to problematise the category at the foundation of the discipline: ‘international’. Literature within and outside International Relations has put forward the problematic character of the category ‘local’ and its pairing with categories such as ‘global’ or ‘international’ (Anderl, 2016, 2020), for example, in the field of peacebuilding (Mac Ginty & Richmond, 2013). As we will see, the existence of such warnings did not prevent me from running into categorical trouble nor did it replace the need to engage in problematisation in my own research project.…”

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How to Problematise Categories: Building the Methodological Toolbox for Linguistic Reflexivity

Alejandro

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Following qualitative researchers’ growing interest in reflexivity, a body of scholarship has emerged that aims to turn informal practices for reflexivity into methods that can be learnt and taught alongside other research practices. This literature, however, has focused on helping researchers become more reflexive toward their situatedness and positionality, rather than toward their use of language and its effects on knowledge production – a process I refer to as ‘linguistic reflexivity’. This article addresses this gap by formalising a method for ‘problematising categories’, an informal approach familiar to qualitative researchers as a promising solution to the analytical and ethical blinders that result from scholars’ unconscious use of language. I proceed in three steps. First, I review the literature to show the analytical, empirical and ethical rationales behind this approach and offer a definition of problematising categories as the practice of making conscious how socio-linguistic units of categorisation unconsciously organise our perception and can represent a problem for knowledge production. This practice, I argue, enables us to decentre ourselves from the taken-for-granted nature of those categories. Second, I develop a three-stage research method for problematising categories: noticing ‘critical junctures' when problematisation is called for, identifying the categorical problem through sensitising questions and reconstructing an alternative. Third, I demonstrate how problematising categories contributes to the research process by applying this method to my experience in problematising the binary pair ‘local’ versus ‘international’ in a research project on the environmental impact of Chinese investment in the Senegalese fishery sector. I show that problematising categories leads to more rigorous empirical findings and nuanced analysis in a way that is feasible within the frame of qualitative research projects. Overall, this article expands the practical tools for linguistic reflexivity and heeds the methodological call to make conscious and explicit choices for every dimension of our research.

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Global or local solidarity? That’s the wrong question: relationality, aspiration and the in-between of feminist activism in Southeast Asia

Cited by 15 publications

References 27 publications

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False friends: Leftist nationalism and the project of transnational solidarity

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