Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 (eBook)

Transformative resistance and social reproduction

Vishwas Satgar, Ruth Ntlokotse (Herausgeber)

Vishwas Satgar, Ruth Ntlokotse, Hawzhin Azeez, Asanda Benya, Christine Bischoff, Jane Cherry, Jacklyn Cock, Samantha Hargreaves, Inge Konik, Jane Mbithi-Dikgol, Courtney Morgan, Sonia Phalatse, Busi Sibeko, Dineo Skosana (Autoren)

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2023 | Main
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-829-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Covid-19 pandemic showed that a patriarchal capitalist socio-economic system is unable to address the socio-ecological reproduction need of societies. This volume foregrounds the possibilities emancipatory feminism creates by resisting neo-liberalism through grassroots and indigenous activism.

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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 - responded to challenges of increased labour precarity and additional care-work. The book critiques neoliberal feminism, which has overshadowed the experiences of feminist grassroots resistance. Instead, the academics and activists in this volume call to action a new wave feminism that is responsive to socio-ecological and economic exploitation, and the oppression of both women and the environment within the patriarchal capitalist system. Offering a diverse range of approaches to this topic, contributions range from women leading the defence of Rojava - the Kurdish region of Syria, anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, 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. These practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered here is a focus on subaltern women's grassroots resistance that advances and enables solidarity-based political projects, deepens democracy, and builds capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction – Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse PART I: Indigenous Emancipatory Feminism and Transformative Resistance Chapter 1 Extractivism and Crises: Rooting Development Alternatives in Emancipatory African Socialist Eco-feminism – Samantha Hargreaves Chapter 2 Jineology and the Pandemic: Rojava’s Alternative Anti-Capitalist-Statist Model – Hawzhin Azeez PART II: Ecology and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 3 Doing ecofeminism in a time of Covid-19: Beyond the limits of liberal feminism – Inge Konik Chapter 4 ‘Our Existence is Resistance’: Women Challenging Mining and the Climate Crisis in a time of Covid-19 – Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn Cock Chapter 5 Women and Food Sovereignty: Tackling Hunger during Covid-19 – Courtney Morgan and Jane Cherry PART III: Economic Transformation, Public Services and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 6 Quiet Rebels: Underground Women Miners and Refusal as Resistance – Asanda Benya Chapter 7 Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa – Jane Mbithi-Dikgole Chapter 8 Government’s Covid-19 Fiscal Responses and the Crisis of Social Reproduction – Sonia Phalatse and Busi Sibeko Chapter 9 Nursing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction - Before and During Covid-19 – Christine Bischoff PART IV: Where to for Emancipatory Feminism? Chapter 10 Crises, Socio-Ecological Reproduction and Intersectionality: Challenges for Emancipatory Feminism – Vishwas Satgar Conclusion: Ruth Ntlokotse and Vishwas Satgar Contributors Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Democratic Marxisms
• Reihe/Serie: Democratic Marxisms
• Verlagsort: Johannesburg
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Covid-19 • ecofeminism • food security • fourth wave feminism • how women contribute to the reproduction of capitalism, Democratic Marxism series • Indigenous • liberal feminism • Marxist/socialist feminism • Marxist/socialist feminism, Ecofeminism, Indigenous feminism, critique of (neo-)Liberal feminism, Emancipatory Feminism, Fourth Wave Feminism, Social Reproduction Theory, Covid-19, Food security, Social Justice • Reproduction of Capitalism • Social ecological feminism • Social Justice • social reproduction theory • undervalue • women’s work
• ISBN-10: 1-77614-829-0 / 1776148290
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-829-5 / 9781776148295