Constellations of Care and Justice

2018 ◽  
pp. 182-204
Author(s):  
Wendy A. Vogt
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Care And Justice

This chapter examines the gendered dimensions of solidarity, carework and activism in multiple contexts along the migrant journey. It links together the highly visible labors of a caravan of mothers of disappeared migrants with the less visible yet no less important labors of local women who sustain migrant shelters on a daily basis. In doing so, I demonstrate the transnational feminist politics and forms of solidarity that undergird these local and transnational economies of compassion and social justice.

Music Education Assessment and Social Justice

2015 ◽  
pp. 512-524
Author(s):  
Martin Fautley
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
World Music ◽  
Western World ◽  
Music Curriculum ◽  
Education Assessment ◽  
Music Making ◽  
School Music ◽  
Music Classrooms

This chapter considers the role that assessment, particularly formative assessment, has to play with regard to social justice purposes in education. It disentangles the notion of assessment from that of testing. Valorization of music is highly significant, as what is valued tends to be what is assessed. This can result in the disenfranchising of world music, pop, rock, and jazz on a daily basis in music classrooms all over the Western world; so this chapter problematizes the content of the music curriculum, too, asking whether that which can be labeled “school music” has any relevance beyond itself. To counter these problems, this chapter suggests the use of feed forward, which takes place during music making, privileging process over product. It suggests that the principal purpose of assessment should be to improve learning in music, not to simply provide data for systemic purposes.

Feminist Identity, Feminist Politics

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maura Kelly ◽  
Gordon Gauchat
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
And Gender

Feminist scholars and activists have endorsed a broad and intersectional political agenda that addresses multiple dimensions of inequality, such as gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class. We examine whether or not this perspective is also held by self-identified feminists in the general public. Drawing on public opinion polls from 2007 to 2009, we assess self-identified feminists’ attitudes toward a range of social policies. We find that after controlling for sociodemographic factors and political ideology, feminist identity is associated with progressive attitudes on policies related to gender and sexuality (e.g., abortion) as well as policies related to other social justice issues (e.g., immigration, health care). We also find some interactions between feminist identity and gender, age, education, and political ideology, suggesting some heterogeneity in feminists’ political attitudes. Overall, these findings suggest that feminists in the general public support an intersectional social justice agenda rather than a narrow focus on gender issues.

Feminism's Quest for Common Desires

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori J. Marso
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Difficult Conversations ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Feminist Community ◽  
New Generation

One attraction of “choice” feminism has been its refusal to judge the diverse desires of women. Yet for feminism to retain its political vision as a quest for social justice, we must continue difficult conversations concerning how acting on our individual desires impacts the lives of others. In this essay, I argue that feminists can acknowledge women's diverse desires while forging a meaningful feminist community. I make this argument by considering feminism's relationship to time, and particularly how women's diverse desires are read in each moment in time. If we abandon the generational model, wherein each new generation of feminists improves upon the last, for a genealogical perspective where women recognize our feminist origins and empathize with the diverse struggles of other women, we might reaffirm social justice for the community as central to feminist politics. To articulate this possibility, I turn to the work of Simone de Beauvoir to explain her discovery of how her embodiment as a woman and her relationship to femininity becomes a way of grounding a feminist politics. Recognizing the “demands of femininity” in other women's lives allows us to affirm feminist community while retaining the capacity to make judgments that realize social justice as a feminist goal.

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Compassionate Care ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Affective Labor ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Future

This final chapter returns to the original themes of the book by considering how members of Moscow’s community of religiously affiliated assistance providers grapple with the uncertainties that they encounter on a daily basis, with specific attention to how members of this community struggle to maintain both the human and the humane in their social justice work. As the experiences documented here show, within the faith-based context, assistance encounters are never fully oriented either to the objective pole of human rights or to the subjective pole of compassion and empathy. As such, these struggles reveal that the future-oriented optimism made possible by the affective labor of faith belies the inherent precarity of faith. Yet it is this precarious state that makes possible the intersubjectivity of compassionate care, whereby those who provide assistance and those who receive it engage one another fully as humans.

scholarly journals A feminist politics of shame: Shame and its contested possibilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Shefer ◽  
Sally R Munt
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Feminist Politics

This editorial piece introduces a special issue on the feminist politics of shame. It locates the special issue in the larger framework of scholarship on feminist approaches to shame and specifically feminist psychological emphases, and contextualises the foregrounding of the productive possibilities of shame for feminist social justice projects. The introductory piece overviews the contributions to the special issue through a thematic lens.

More than a class act? dilemmas in researching elite school girls’ feminist politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 146470012097383
Author(s):  
Claire Charles ◽  
Alexandra Allan
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Elite School ◽  
School Girls ◽  
Class Reproduction

Feminist scholars have long been concerned with privileged women’s activism and engagement with feminist politics and how acts of resistance from privileged subjects might best be understood. In the current moment, we are seeing a reinvigoration of interest in feminist activism particularly from young women, but not necessarily focusing on young women who are positioned as privileged. Simultaneously, there is attention in the sociology of elite schooling to the question of social justice politics in privileged spaces. In this article, we contribute to both of these scholarly conversations by reporting on the feminist activism of three young women attending an elite school in Australia. We argue that these young women’s activism/feminist politics need to be understood as a complex entanglement of resistance and reproduction with regard to gender, race and class, and that drawing on recent theorisations influenced by post-humanism in feminist educational research produces fresh insights into researching gender/race/class reproduction by young women in elite educational settings.

Sustaining Youth Participation in a Long-term Tobacco Control Initiative: Consideration of a Social Justice Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 681-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Ross
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Action Strategy

This article presents an in-depth case study of the Healthy Options for Prevention and Education Coalition’s Teens Tackle Tobacco initiative, a 3-year community-based participatory research (CBPR) project about the distribution of tobacco vendors and tobacco advertising in Worcester, Massachusetts. Using two theoretical frameworks, positive youth development (PYD) and social justice youth development (SJYD), the case reveals personal and community conditions that drove youth to get engaged in this project, how CBPR guided the group’s research and action strategy, and results of the work to date. Analysis of this case highlights factors that facilitate and pose barriers to active youth involvement in a long-term, tobacco-related community change initiative. Specifically, to affect oppressive community conditions, a blend of PYD’s focus on individual skill building, participation, and empowerment— joined with SJYD emphasis on community organizing and building youth’s self-awareness of how race, class, and other dimensions of power affect their lives on a daily basis—is needed.

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