Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Vishwas Satgar , Ruth Ntlokotse , Vishwas Satgar , Ruth NtlokotsePublisher: Wits University Press Imprint: Wits University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781776148264ISBN 10: 1776148266 Pages: 262 Publication Date: 01 August 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationVishwas Satgar is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the editor of the Democratic Marxism series, and is the principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project and a democratic eco-socialist. Ruth Ntlokotse is the President of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) and Deputy President of the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (Numsa). Hawzhin Azeez is a Kurdish academic, activist and poet who spent close to four years in the Rojava region as a participant in the rebuilding and reconstruction of Kobane. Asanda Benya is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Christine Bischoff works as a researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Jane Cherry is the executive manager at the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre in Johannesburg. She is also an activist and organiser in the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and the Climate Justice Charter Movement. Jacklyn Cock is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a research associate of the university’s Society, Work and Politics Institute. Samantha Hargreaves is the founder and director of the WoMin African Alliance, which works to challenge the destructive impacts of a patriarchal extractivist development model. Inge Konik is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and an associate editor for the journal Environmental Humanities. Jane Mbithi-Dikgole is a lecturer and research supervisor at the South African College of Applied Psychology. Courtney Morgan is a campaigner for the African Climate Reality Project. Sonia Phalatse is a feminist economist researching and writing at the intersection of climate and economic justice. Busi Sibeko is an economist and researcher whose work has focused on macroeconomic policy and who co-chaired the Budget Justice Coalition in South Africa. Dineo Skosana is a doctoral student in politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her scholarly interests span indigenous politics, governance, policy, culture and heritage, and land claims. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
