The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women – in ...particular working-class women – to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women – working class, peasant and indigenous – challenge hegemonic neoliberal feminism through their resistance to ordinary capitalist practices and ecological extractivism. Contributors cover women’s responses in a wide range of contexts: from women leading the defence of Rojava – the Kurdish region of Syria, to approaches to anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, to championing climate justice in mining affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. Their practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered in this collection is a subaltern women’s grassroots resistance focused on advancing and enabling solidarity-based political projects, deepening democracy, building capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.
Data Feminism D'Ignazio, Catherine; Klein, Lauren F
03/2020
eBook
Open access
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.
The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from the ...MIT Libraries.
Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.
Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.”
Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.
Feminist Experiences Bassnett, Susan
Feminist Experiences (RLE Feminist Theory),
1986, 20121112, 2012, 2012-11-12, Volume:
11
eBook, Book Chapter
The Women's Movement is usually referred to as if it were a constant, global phenomenon. There are women's movements in Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Japan and ...Australia, and many women and men assume that they are regional manifestations of the same thing, and share a common core.
Susan Bassnett has lived and been involved in the struggles of the women's movement in the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom, and has had extensive contacts with feminists in the German Democratic Republic. On the basis of her personal experiences and study of women's history and literature in these countries she is able to present a striking picture of the variety of feminist aims, tactics and priorities in the four countries, and of the character of the women's movement in four very different cultures.
In Italy, she focuses on the violence of the women's movement - its intellectualism and energy. In analysing the American women's movement she dwells on its roots in the past, and its faith in pragmatic solutions. The GDR presents completely different questions, hinging on the relationship between state socialism and feminism. In the UK, Susan Bassnett finds herself returning to that all-pervasive aspect of British life - class, and its importance for feminists.
Throughout, the author writes with a double commitment: first, to furthering our understanding of the diversity of aims of women's movements and their common ground - the no-man's land of female existence; second, to making her book as accessible as possible to all feminists, through drawing on her own personal experience of countries in which she has lived, worked, travelled, and made friends.
El articulo analiza el proceso de construccion de huelga general feminista del 8 de marzo del 2019 en Chile, desde las trabajadoras "a honorarios" de la Universidad de Chile, i.e. sin contrato ...laboral, organizadas en un sindicato. Al analizar este proceso desde les trabajadores precarizades y las activistas feministas, las autoras buscan evidenciar un hilo que se teje en Chile entre el mayo feminista de 2018, la huelga del 8M de 2019 y la revuelta social de octubre de 2019. La hipotesis es que, desde las luchas contra el trabajo precario y los feminismos, se renueva y extiende un repertorio de lucha de los movimientos sociales y de les trabajadores asalariades. Desde un conocimiento situado y auto-reflexivo, las autoras analizan sus practicas en el proceso de huelga general feminista, a partir de una autonarracion y del analisis de contenido de redes sociales y de las declaraciones publicas del sindicato.
De reciente traducción al español, la última obra de Sara Ahmed se centra en la queja, una figura transversal en su desarrollo intelectual sobre el activismo y el quehacer feministas. El aspecto que ...distingue este texto etnográfico del ensayo personal es la articulación de su experiencia con la de las 40 personas entrevistadas, más una mixtura de fuentes literarias y audiovisuales, para así reflexionar sobre los procesos de denuncia en las instituciones académicas.
Among the diverse and intricate social practices that shape a new urban mosaic, woven on dynamics escaping any precise and definitive definition, new patterns of city use are established and ...consolidated based on the 'vital infrastructures of care', which retrieves the value of a connective tissue transversal to new forms of urbanity, and in which women's activity and experience play a central role at every latitude. Many theories and practices bring together territorialist and feminist reflections. To date, however, these two horizons have often followed parallel routes and rarely met. It would be desirable to open a common path, albeit still with uncertain and non-definitive steps. The article explores some possible research trails that could represent interesting opportunities for cross- fertilisation of knowledge. Keywords: territorialism; feminism; gender; urbanism; care. Fra le diverse e articolate pratiche sociali che configurano un nuovo mosaico urbano, ordito su dinamiche sfuggenti a ogni definizione precisa e definitiva, si affermano e si stabilizzano nuovi schemi d'uso della citta orditi sulle "infrastrutture vitali della cura", che assumono nuovamente il valore di un tessuto connettivo trasversale alle nuove forme di urbanita e che vedono ad ogni latitudine l'attivita e l'esperienza delle donne giocare un ruolo centrale. Molte teorie e pratiche accomunano il contributo della riflessione territorialista e femminista. Fino a oggi pero questi due orizzonti hanno percorso spesso strade parallele che raramente si sono incontrate. Sarebbe auspicabile aprire un percorso comune, anche se ancora con passi incerti e non definitivi. L'articolo esplora alcuni possibili sentieri di ricerca che potrebbero rappresentare possibilita interessanti di fertilizzazione incrociata dei saperi. Parole-chiave: territorialismo; femminismo; genere; urbanistica; cura.
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