The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism

Dirlik, Arif

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“…Dirlik (1998) notes that the postcolonial starts when the third-world intellectual arrives in the first-world academe. Assumedly, this arrival is punctuated by a life of privilege as the migrant occupies spaces of honor and respectability.…”

Section: Migration (In) Visible Masculinities and Gender Transformamentioning

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Zimbabwean Transnational Migration, (In) Visible Masculinities, and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools

Musanga

2016

Journal of Black Studies

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This article examines the effect of the relationship between Zimbabwean transnational migration and gender on the concept of "invisible masculinities" and how the space that would have been evacuated by these "masculinities," as a direct consequence of the migratory experience, is reorganized or reconfigured in Shimmer Chinodya's Chairman of Fools. This space, both marital and familial, compels us to reconfigure our conceptualization of masculinities and femininities, gender relations, and gendered identities in general. However, men's temporary or permanent return migration results in return masculinities being forced to accept the changes provoked by their absence and in the process transforming gender relations and gendered identities into more democratic spaces of interaction. The transformation of these gender relations and gendered identities also triggers changes in the marriage institution as spouses begin to see and interact with each other as partners and equals. In addition, the changes witnessed in gender relations

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Section: Migration (In) Visible Masculinities and Gender Transformamentioning

confidence: 98%

Zimbabwean Transnational Migration, (In) Visible Masculinities, and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools

Musanga

2016

Journal of Black Studies

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“…15 Throughout history, however, capitalism has been a driving force behind the exploitation and discrimination of women, the working poor, and racial and ethnic minorities around the world. 11,18 Capitalism has also been a driving force in the imperialist, colonizing, and neoliberal agendas of Global North nations that have kept Global South nations disenfranchised. 18,23,24 The critiques of capitalism and globalization in feminist scholarship are abundant and focus on the continuing politics of economic inequality and the implications of global politics that impact the lives of women in the global South.…”

Section: Uncontested Capitalist Framing Of Development and Globalizationmentioning

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“…11,18 Capitalism has also been a driving force in the imperialist, colonizing, and neoliberal agendas of Global North nations that have kept Global South nations disenfranchised. 18,23,24 The critiques of capitalism and globalization in feminist scholarship are abundant and focus on the continuing politics of economic inequality and the implications of global politics that impact the lives of women in the global South. 11,25,26 From a transnational feminist perspective, the makeup of an economic system can be seen as creating social norms and beliefs.…”

Section: Uncontested Capitalist Framing Of Development and Globalizationmentioning

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Raising Questions About Capitalist Globalization and Universalizing Views on Women

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Stevens

Mkandawire‐Valhmu

2016

Advances in Nursing Science

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Nursing in the United States has embraced global health primarily from a clinical perspective, with emphasis on care delivery to populations in underserved, resource-poor settings. Less attention has been devoted to developing expertise about social, economic, and political contexts that produce ill health around the world. The purpose of this article is to offer a transnational feminist critique of the World Development Report: Gender Equality and Development and to illuminate implications such reports may have in the lives of the world's most marginalized women and girls. We examine the political economy idealized in the report, raising questions about the capitalist framework underpinning its agenda. Second, we examine the assumptive language used in the report, suggesting that it discursively constructs a problematic representation of women in low-income countries. We contend that the report perpetuates a hegemonic discourse of patriarchy and inequality for women in the Global South through the use of an uncontested economic framework and universalist reasoning. We conclude the article with discussion about a transformative policy making that could be more inclusive of the wisdoms, values, and everyday experiences of women living in the Global South and about the vital role nurses can play in advancing gender equity through their active collaboration in policy critique and policy formulation.

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“…Historically, the term Third World-invented by a Frenchman (Prashad 2008, 6)gained wide circulation following the signing of a common communique 2 in the Bandung Conference (1955) by twenty-nine newly independent nation-states from Africa and Asia, which launched the "nonalignment movement" during the Cold War. Although the term Third World was not included in the communique itself, it has come to be associated with the movement and has since symbolized a common struggle against Western domination and solidarity among formerly and currently colonized nations (Shohat 1992;Dirlik 1994). In keeping with this history, I propose that we use Third World as a term reappropriated by members of previously or currently colonized and imperialized nations to signify their oppositionality and resistance to not only military-politico-economic but also cultural dimensions of Western domination (Mohanty, Russo, and Torres 1991, ix-x).…”

Section: Why I Identify Myself As a Third World Woman Ranjoo Seodu Herrmentioning

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The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism

Cited by 185 publications

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Zimbabwean Transnational Migration, (In) Visible Masculinities, and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools

Zimbabwean Transnational Migration, (In) Visible Masculinities, and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Shimmer Chinodya’s Chairman of Fools

Raising Questions About Capitalist Globalization and Universalizing Views on Women

Contested Terrains ofWomen of ColorandThird World Women

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