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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and the United States. This critical ethnic studies intervention focuses on the theoretical interventions driven by indigenous and Black race-radical feminists and how this has placed these activists at the forefront of anti-violence movement-building. Such an intervention specifically upholds the tensions...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 522–547.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and Black race-radical feminists and how this has placed these activists at the forefront of anti-violence movement-building. Such an intervention specifically upholds the tensions within and refuses to collapse political approaches of Indigenous movements for sovereignty and Black race-radical traditions...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 120–124.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... However, the anti-violence movement has always contested this notion of safety at home. The notion that violence only happens "out there," inflicted by the stranger in the dark alley makes it difficult to recognize that the home is in fact the place of greatest danger for women. In response...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... women. In Chicago’s southwest suburbs, working-class Arab immigrant women and refugees led a movement to remove an Islamophobic trustee from power. If we focused only on the Islamophobic representative, we might learn about how some local representatives are repeating the “anti-Muslim women” rhetoric...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 66–99.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the movement reclaimed the traditional human rights frame to redefine gender violence, and also raised an international tide of anti-gender violence activism by applying human rights strategies (Dickenson 1997;Dorsey 1997;Keck and Sikkink 1998;Waterman 1998;Berkovitch 1999; Smith 2000; Antrobus and Sen 2006...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
... work, particularly around a common resistance to capitalist exploitation. The emergence of the global justice, anti-war, and anti-prison movements in the 1990s and 2000s marks a resurgence of movement-building based on a shared political analysis rather than on a shared social location. ro...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 237–248.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... Testimonies by Filipina migrant workers, lesbian activists in South Africa, and Palestinian women living in refugee camps were a key in building feminist alliances. Viola Casares of Fuerza Unida, a Latina worker's organization at the forefront of the early anti-globalization movement, gave testimony...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of their analysis, leftist and nationalist women’s movements in Asia and Africa built an anti-imperialist strategy for women of the world that linked feminism with a systemic analysis of antiracism and antifascism (Pieper Mooney 2013 ). They used regional ties and international gatherings in Asia to build...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 93–102.
Published: 01 March 2004
... and support work for mass movements. However, in the U.S., non-profits often play the role of organizing in a community by building membership and bases. In that case, how is a professional staff organizer accountable to the constituency that she or he is organizing? How can such organizations achieve mass...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 163–192.
Published: 01 September 2005
... collective organization to the growing discursive weight of human rights discourses during the 1990s, whose extensive transnational networks and access to funds allowed them to take charge of the anti-acid campaign also medicalized the issue of acid violence, and it established a model of providing short...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 131–138.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... national interests and it permits a kind of “dragnet” effect at home and abroad which legitimates the suppression of dissent. We also want to inquire into constructions of “terrorism” that continue to target non-native or “foreign” opposition movements while cloaking its own practices of terror...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 302–308.
Published: 01 March 2002
... at home and abroad which legitimates the suppression of dissent. We also want to inquire into constructions of "terrorism" that continue to target non-native or "foreign" opposition movements while cloaking its own practices of terror in euphemisms such as "foreign aid." Deconstructing the trope...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 92–111.
Published: 01 September 2001
... interest in the extraordinary range in the forms of women's activism, from the left to the right of the political spectrum, and from feminist to anti-feminist movements. I am interested in developing a fuller, richer conception offeminism and social movements by considering these varied forms of activism...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., a racial structure that relies on gender to establish its component parts. An institutionalized anti-Muslim racism has been developing for some time in the West building on earlier racial formations and Orientalisms but escalating in the post-9/11 period into authorized torture, extrajudicial killings...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... public resources to incarceration rather than to education (Meiners 2007; CR ro Publications Collective 2008). Yet,despite this flurry oflegislation, media rhetoric, related scholarly work, and movement building, SORs have escalated with relative public silence. My research suggests that no anti-prison...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of the 21st Century" in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The rise of the Pink Tide was the product of a strong wave of anti-systemic movements fighting against the negative effects of neoliberalism in a wide range offorms ofinjustice and inequality from class and race, to gender and sexuality, to ecology...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 December 2016
... correcting some important historical erasures in terms of how the "her-story" of Black freedom struggle is recorded: Although nascent, the emergent national (and arguably global movement) against anti-Black racial violence connects to a long tradition of African American activism. A troubling part...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 87–93.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of other African revolutionary movements confronted South African women with gender injustices in the anti-apartheid movement itself. In combination with a process of broad constituency mobilization and coalition-building, South African women were able to make use of emerging international human rights...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 107–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... and empowerment in their stances against Islamist movements and violence? Our work draws on intersectional and anti-imperialist feminist theories, as well feminist securitization scholarship to analyze a situated case study of how CVE strategies mobilize women symbolically and materially, and to consider...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 102–129.
Published: 01 March 2009
... (National Crime Records Bureau 2005). BUILDING AN ANTI-VIOLENCE MOVEMENT Prior to 1983, no laws in India specifically addressed violence against women and women experiencing violence at the hands of their husbands or their relatives could invoke only general criminal provisions on murder, culpable homicide...