Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19

Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
Title Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 PDF eBook
Author Vishwas Satgar
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 262
Release 2023-07
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1776148274

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This edited volume provides an eco-socialist feminist analysis of the current social reproduction debate in South Africa, outlining existing and African alternatives to mainstream liberal feminism.

Data Feminism

Data Feminism
Title Data Feminism PDF eBook
Author Catherine D'Ignazio
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 328
Release 2020-03-31
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0262358530

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A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.

Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19

Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
Title Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 PDF eBook
Author Vishwas Satgar
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 303
Release 2023-07-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1776148290

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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. 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 –challenge hegemonic neoliberal feminism through their resistance to ordinary capitalist practices and ecological extractivism. Contributors cover women’s responses in a wide range of contexts: from women leading the defence of Rojava – the Kurdish region of Syria, to approaches to anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, to 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. Their practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered in this collection is a subaltern women’s grassroots resistance focused on advancing and enabling solidarity-based political projects, deepening democracy, building capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.

Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19

Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
Title Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 PDF eBook
Author VISHWAS SATGAR; RUTH NTLOKOTSE; HAWZHIN AZEEZ; ASA.
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2023
Genre COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
ISBN 9781776148288

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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.

A Love Letter to the Many

A Love Letter to the Many
Title A Love Letter to the Many PDF eBook
Author Vishwas Satgar
Publisher BRILL
Pages 724
Release 2024-07-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9004692266

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South Africa was the hope of the world. It had an impressive and rich tradition of left politics. At the heart of post-apartheid democracy-making was a revolutionary nationalist ANC, the oldest Communist Party in Africa, the SACP, and one of the most militant labour union federations in the world, COSATU. Yet, South Africa is at a crossroads and many are deeply concerned about its future. This book explains through a political economy/ecology analysis why and how the degeneration of national liberation politics has happened, while making praxis-centered arguments for a new transformative left politics.

Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations

Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations
Title Women's Emancipation and Civil Society Organisations PDF eBook
Author Christina Schwabenland
Publisher Policy Press
Pages 388
Release 2016-10-05
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1447324773

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Women are at the heart of civil society organizations (CSOs) that challenge oppressive practices at a local and global level and develop outstanding entrepreneurial activities. Yet CSO research tends to ignore considerations of gender, and the rich history of activist feminist organizations is rarely examined. This collection corrects that oversight, exploring the nexus between the emancipation of women and their roles in CSOs. Featuring contrasting, international studies from a wide range of contributors, it covers emerging issues such as the role of social media in organizing, the significance of religion in many cultural contexts, activism in Eastern Europe, and the impact of environmental degradation on women's lives. Asking whether involvement in CSOs offers a potential source of emancipation for women or maintains the status quo, this book will have an impact on both equal-opportunity policy and practice.

Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation

Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation
Title Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation PDF eBook
Author Olaf Zenker
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 337
Release 2024-04-04
Genre Law
ISBN 100938080X

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Speeding up land reform through a constitutional amendment that would explicitly permit the expropriation of land without compensation has dominated legal and political-policy debates in South Africa in recent years. Taking this politically and emotionally charged issue as its starting point, this volume offers both expert commentary on this issue from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and also fresh ideas on how to advance the redistributive transformation that South Africa so urgently needs. It brings critically important debates around transformative property law, the need for diversified land justice and the possibilities of alternative forms of redistribution into productive conversation with each other. While grounded in the complex realities of South Africa's past and present, the volume speaks to concerns that resonate in many contexts in the Global South and beyond. It will appeal to scholars, students, policymakers and general readers concerned with both the theory and practice of redistributive justice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.