Cross-Border Solidarities in Twenty-First Century Contexts: Feminist Perspectives and Activist Practices

The collection explores how political solidarities are being understood and constructed in cross-border struggles and for what ends under twenty-first century conditions, focusing on the Cold War divide, colonial difference, and rurality as forms of colonial difference. Feminist politics of power and difference and attention to gendered agency are at the centre of the inquiry.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 08 April 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Conditions for global solidarities and social movements have undergone significant changes since their peak in the 1990s United Nations conferences. This collection explores how political solidarities are being understood and constructed in various cross-border struggles and for what purposes in the twenty-first century. Scholars from different world regions and at various scales examine various aspects of this topic. For instance, they examine how the Cold War divide and its aftermath have shaped contemporary asymmetries in European LGBT movements and global feminisms. They also explore how "colonial difference" in Latin America challenges feminist and social justice movements with issues of translation across worlds. Additionally, they examine how concepts essential to constructing solidarities across distance and difference navigate linguistic divides and power imbalances in world cities and transnational networks. Furthermore, they explore how rurality as a form of colonial difference challenges established categories of intersectional feminism. At the heart of this inquiry lies a focus on feminist politics of power and difference, as well as attention to gendered agency, in the possibility of twenty-first century solidarities across borders.

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538157701