Search Results for anticolonialism

...Elisabeth Armstrong Abstract In 1949, at a conference instigated by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) held in Beijing, China, the Asian Women’s Conference solidified an anticolonial, antifascist, and antiracist theory for organizing women transnationally. This transnational...

...Elena Ruíz Abstract This article addresses the experience of precarity and vulnerability in racialized gender-based violence from a structural perspective. Informed by Indigenous social theory and anticolonial approaches to intergenerational trauma that link settler colonial violence...

...Marina Magloire Abstract This essay argues that the anticolonial efforts of Martinican intellectuals like Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon often established a strict dichotomy between a violated, abject, and feminized Martinique and a masculine and authoritative France. In this way, they reify...

... within a broader, complex matrix of power. The article positions the Palestinian feminist anticolonial struggle in relation to wider debates on Black, transnational, and Third World feminisms to contextualize the movement. The article eventually turns to contemporary examples of intersectional feminist...

...Ayasha Guerin Abstract This three-part essay first introduces Berlin’s anticolonial, Black feminist poetics through the work of May Ayim and Audre Lorde, whose poems “Blues in Black-and-White” and “East Berlin 1989” were written shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in response to racial...

... anticolonial and anti-imperial project. Works Cited AAPSO (Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization) . 1972 . Women in Africa and Asia Today . Cairo : Permanent Secretariat of AAPSO . Prashad Vijay . 2007 . The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World . New Press People’s...

... to provide a counterpoint against which a modern and national Brahmanical womanhood could be articulated. The author brings together a constellation of events that participated in the construction of Indian womanhood, especially the rise of sound film against the backdrop of growing anticolonial...

... was conducted in Urdu. Beyond her party’s principles, Juhi invoked the history of her father’s involvement in the anticolonial struggle for Pakistan to emphasize the legitimacy of a liberal and progressive understanding of Islam, which, she said, was “never suffocating”: I do not believe...

... in anticolonial wars, they called on women in Western Europe and the United States to oppose imperial counterinsurgent violence and the neo-imperialism of Wall Street. As difficult as these kinds of solidarities were, Armstrong argues that they were centered in a formation that linked women’s liberation...

... that concerns over the status ofwomen and the family were central to debates over how to address crises in colonial governance in the region. These principally had to do with how best to reorganize British rule in ways that would assuage anticolonial resistance ahead of the orderly relinquishment of colonial...

... the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy, and peace." PATRICIA McFADDEN was born in Swaziland and has lived and worked in southern Africa for the past thirty years in the anticolonial resistance and the women's movements. She...

... is the author of Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (2019), coauthor of Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of the World (2021), and a coeditor of the Minoritarian Aesthetics series. She is the cofounder of The Brown Theatre Collective and creator of La Estación Gallery. Abstract: How...

... of rule, albeit to different effects. Scholars ofTrinidadian history have convincingly narrated the transition from the colonial era to the postcolonial (or neocolonial) one as mediated by an elite anticolonial nationalism that mobilized decolonization movements by, ironically, preservintghe notions...

... at the onset of the Egyptian national political awakening, the parallel identification of women as primary consumers-to whom product manufacturers directed considerable attention-and partners in the anticolonial movement contributed in the framing of her identity in the national public sphere. 1 The idea...

... was in progress. As Meridians readers surely know, Trask was an indomitable Native Hawaiian anticolonial activist, scholar, educator, and poet. A political scientist by training who taught at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and was the founder and director of the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies...

... Muslim Moroccan women on the Moroccan/Spanish border in the towns of Nador and Melilla. Ayasha Guerin in “Matter and Memory” introduces Berlin’s anticolonial, Black feminist poetics through the work of May Ayim and Audre Lorde, whose poems “Blues in Black-and-White” and “East Berlin 1989” were written...

... Capécia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique” Marina Magloire explains how anticolonial West Indian women writers understood that French colonialists were always already hoisted by their own ideological petards. She argues that misogynist colonial fantastical renderings of female shape...

... that while anticolonial nationalist movements were concerned with modernizing Islam, the concern oflslamists is to Islamize the expression of modernity in present-day Muslim societies. In Pakistan, Islamization has attempted to reappropriate aspects of the public, political space that were at least formally...

... of the powerful theorist for her own project, one that might be as queer and feminist as it is anticolonial,” disidentification “offers a Fanon, for that queer and lesbian reader [whose] homophobia and misognyny would be interrogated while his anticolonial discourse was engaged as a still valuable yet mediated...

..., and this is also what sets Ainu activism apart from many other anticolonial and Indigenous resistance movements in the West. Instead of refusing the dominant gaze on the particularity of Ainu culture—which can also be achieved productively, as Audra Simpson ( 2014 ) argues—they mobilize it to yield positive shifts...