Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms: Visions of Feminism. Global North/Global South Encounters, Conversations and Disagreements

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction – transnational feminism: a working agenda
	Transnational feminism
	A position at the margins
	Scholarships of hope
	Notes
	References
2. Transnational messiness, political subjectivity and feminism across borders: in conversation with three Pakistani activists
	Introduction
	Theoretical perspective and material
	Contradictory messages
	A transnational place, products and interruptions
	Books and red materiality
	A messiness of economic normativities
	Messy education
	The educational look
	Conclusions
	Note
	References
3. Women resisting border regimes: two case studies from Eastern and Northern Europe
	Introduction
	Border theory and spatial meaning of resistance
	Informal cross-border economy as gendered resistance to multiple modes of marginalisation
	Resisting border regimes through same-sex marriage
	Conclusion: Border regimes and varieties of resistance
	Notes
	References
4. In, against (and beyond?) the state: women’s rights, global gender equality regime, and feminist counterpublics in 21st-century Turkey
	Introduction
	Feminisms and the state across the global North-South divide: A methodological discussion
	Turkey’s gender equality agenda and the formation of dominant and non-dominant feminisms (1980s–1990s)
	2000s’ conjuncture for gender politics: Europeanisation and Islamisation
	Gender politics in issue-based platforms
	Feminist counterpublics
	The 2010s: women’s rights against feminism
	Feminism as an opposition front?
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
5. Is the social democracy gone? Performing feminisms in times of right-wing populism
	Introduction
	A note on performance and performativity
	The right-wing populist turn in Europe
	Performing post-social democracy in Sweden
	Identity politics
	Thanking social democracy
	Performing popularised feminisms
	Pop-politics and celebrity addresses
	Multi-solidarity
	Intersectionality
	Practising solidarity
	It is all about address
	References
6. Dreaming of home: a feminist strategy for importing the Nordic model to Taiwan
	Introduction
	Women’s work and social policy in Taiwan
	Making the state the People’s Home
	Rethinking Confucianism in social policy studies
	Communal family with participatory democracy
	Conclusion: the big communal family
	Notes
	References
7. Make(ing) room in transnational surges: Pakistani Khwaja Sira organising
	Introduction
	Terminological matters and the medical gaze
	Follow the money: Conditions for organising in neoliberal times
	Making history: The construction of the respectable gender variant citizen
	“They can learn from us. We can change the world”:
Transformative strategies
	Notes
	References
8. Putting (left) politics back into (Western) feminist theory: conversations with feminist activists and scholars in Argentina
	Introduction
	Methodology
	Southern Theory: The making of scholarships of hope
	Transnational (feminist) solidarity
	Feminism stories: Feminism genealogies
	Epistemologies of hope: Unlearning racist legacies
	Epistemologies of hope: Towards a Che Guevara with red lips
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Epilogue
Index