Resist, persist, desist: building solidarity from Grandma Ella through baby Angela to the Women’s March

Falola, Bisola; Ohueri, Chelsi West

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“…We understand encounters as a “specific genre of contact” (Wilson, , p. 452) and suggest affectual writing as a form to register and reflect on events that are “noteworthy” (, p. 464) as they are affectually intense. It is, however, challenging to work with resonance methodologically, because circulating emotions powerfully work to reinforce discriminatory readings of bodies (Ahmed, ; Falola & Ohueri, ). Analysing the emotional strains of engaging in covert research with antagonistic organisations, Maguire et al, () present an instructive example.…”

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“…To affectually decolonise knowledge (Radcliffe, ) means to reflect on how postcolonial imaginaries of the colonial other, as lacking purity, cleanness, and hygiene, inform our encounters in the field despite our feminist attempts to overcome them (Stoler, ). In doing so we make ourselves vulnerable, but with a different and intersectional feminist future in mind (Falola & Ohueri, ; Mollett & Faria, ). We read and write, we know , from different places (Mahtani, ; McKittrick, ).…”

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Affectual intensities: Writing with resonance as feminist methodology

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Schurr

2019

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This paper advances current debates about feminist methodologies in geography by attending to affectual intensities and their resonance. Affectual intensities emerge through encounters between different bodies and objects, and are deeply power-laden, enabling, disabling, transforming, and restricting geographic research. We attend to three moments of resonance that surfaced in Elisabeth Militz's field research on nationalism in Azerbaijan. In each, we show how attending to affectual intensities reveals much about the work of power in nationalism and in the constitution of geographic knowledge about it. The paper calls for an affectual methodology, a process of critical writing, reflection, and rewriting about moments of resonance between different bodies and objects in the field, and as we analyse, present, and write up our data. This is a layered, dialogic, and collaborative writing strategy that, we argue, enables us to write through and with affect. In particular, our work contributes a nuanced and multi-layered approach to uncover often-neglected power structures of predominantly white and heteronormative geographic research practice. K E Y W O R D S affect, autoethnography, Azerbaijan, feminist geography, nationalism, postcolonial research position 1 | POWER AND EMOTIONS IN FEMINIST GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PRACTICES Feminist geographers have long interrogated power in research encounters, arguing that "attention to emotions in research has the potential to reinvigorate feminist practices of reflexivity" (Laliberté & Schurr, 2016, p. 73). Ahmed's (2014) idea of "stickiness" or McKittrick's (2006) work on "bodymemory" (see also Crawford, 2018b) conceptualise how research encounters are always emotion-laden and imbued with power, reproducing and legitimating social hierarchy. We, as researchers, must recognise and critically reflect on the long histories of power relations in our, seemingly innate, gut feelings. Yet, how to navigate this terrain methodologically?In this paper we build on Noxolo's call to "'write' the body both as a social, political and economic location and as a sensory agent" (2009, p. 63; emphasis in original). We suggest a methodological intervention that centres layered, dialogic, and collaborative writing. We describe this as an affectual methodology by fusing the affective with the emotional (see also Tolia-Kelly, 2006). In so doing, our intervention forms part of a wider conceptual move to bridge intellectual divides between geographies of affect, informed by non-representational theory and feminist emotional geographies (see for example, Colls, 2012;Schurr, 2014). With Noxolo, Ahmed, and others, we understand an affectual methodology as the outcome of "how we come into contact with objects and others" (Ahmed, 2014, p. 208). Thus, how we produce, handle,

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Section: Producing and Destabilising Resonance Through Affectual Writingmentioning

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Affectual intensities: Writing with resonance as feminist methodology

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2019

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“…The WMW has been both lauded for the ability to mobilize those who previously did not participate in activism and seeking to include a diverse range of participants across gender, class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, but it has also been criticized for failing to be truly inclusive. The evaluation of WMW appears to be shaped by various factors including personal experience – some local marches seemed more inclusive (Doan, 2017) than others (Rose-Redwood and Rose-Redwood, 2017), the positionality of the observer (Boothroyd et al, 2017; Burke et al, 2017; Doan, 2017; Falola and West Ohueri, 2017; Gökarıksel and Smith, 2017; Moss and Maddrell, 2017; Rose-Redwood and Rose-Redwood, 2017), and whether the focus was on the early or later stages of the organization of the event. What started out as a Facebook group calling for a ‘Million Women March’ that went viral (Boone et al, 2017: 5) soon led to criticism of the appropriation of the name of a protest of and for women and the lack of racial diversity among the organizers (Gökarıksel and Smith, 2017: 632).…”

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Introduction: Contemporary Counter-Movements in the Age of Brexit and Trump

Roth

2018

Sociological Research Online

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Brexit and the election of President Trump in the United States are the result of the rise of farright populist movements which can be observed in Europe, North America, and other regions of the world. Whereas populism itself is one response to neoliberalism, globalization, and austerity measures, the election of Trump, in particular, has caused a new wave of protest. To a far lesser extent, on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the European Union in March 2017, people in the UK and many European countries participated in a March for Europe. These demonstrations represent counter-movements to the growing presence of right-wing, anti-immigrant, racist, nationalist, sexist, homophobic, anti-semitic and anti-Muslim movements throughout Europe and the United States. This rapid response issue surveys right-wing populist and left-liberal countermovements which represent different responses to neoliberalism, globalization, austerity, and to each other. Social movements reflect and contribute to social change and need to be understood from an intersectional perspective. Networked media play an important role for both populist movements from the right and progressive counter-movements.

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“…For instance, feminist historical geography could turn its attention to female political activism across time as a way to measure the changes in gender politics. Indeed, researchers are beginning to connect this moment of political emergence in 2017 to a broader arc of female resistance that intersects with race (see, for example, Falola & West Ohueri, ). The emancipatory and participatory methods described above offer an important way to ensure this research has a political edge by recuperating the experiences and advancing the cause of the women involved in activism across history.…”

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Historical Geography, feminist research and the gender politics of the present

Moore

2018

Geography Compass

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It is thirty years since the first call to engage with gender as an analytical category was made in the sub‐discipline of Historical Geography. Significant advances in scholarship have been made in this time, particularly the re‐situation of women in the history of Geography as a subject. This paper looks to the next thirty years in Historical Geography and asks how the sub‐discipline can retain and develop its critical political edge. In the 2017 Women's Marches protestors dressed as suffragettes from the early twentieth century and proclaimed that little had changed in the fight for women's rights. Taking this ‘Victorian present’ as a starting point, this paper explores ways to connect Historical Geography to the gender politics of the present. The paper argues that the sub‐discipline has the methodological tools to use the past as a form of female power to engage with the inequalities that women still face. A sketch of a feminist historical geography of the present is provided using emancipatory and participatory research tools.

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Resist, persist, desist: building solidarity from Grandma Ella through baby Angela to the Women’s March

Cited by 11 publications

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Affectual intensities: Writing with resonance as feminist methodology

Affectual intensities: Writing with resonance as feminist methodology

Introduction: Contemporary Counter-Movements in the Age of Brexit and Trump

Historical Geography, feminist research and the gender politics of the present

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