scholarly journals Neoliberal Turns in Global Humanitarian Governance

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-24
Author(s):  
Annika Bergman Rosamond ◽  
Catia Gregoratti
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Training ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Jordan River ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Do So ◽  
Problem Representations

In this article we seek to extend recent debates on how the promotion of self-reliance through vocational training and entrepreneurship has become the new neoliberal mantra among refugee-supporting agencies, policymakers and humanitarian actors. More specifically, we do so in the context of corporate and celebrity-endorsed humanitarian partnerships and initiatives that single out refugee women and girls. Informed by postcolonial feminist scholarship and guided by Carol Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be’ (WPR) approach we compare IKEA’s partnership with the Jordan River Foundation (JRF) in Jordan and Angelina Jolie’s support for the RefuSHE project in Kenya. While differences between the two problem representations exist, both initiatives seek to empower refugee women by activating latent entrepreneurial abilities. These, we conclude, reinforce a saviour/saved humanitarian logic while also obscuring the gender division of responsibilities and precarious nature of artisanal labour.

Justice and the Geographies of Moral Protest: Reflections from Mexico

10.1068/d6708 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa W Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Spatial Transformations ◽  
Northern Mexico ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Do So

Protest movements offer a rich vernacular for investigating how the connections between social justice and creating political subjects always involve spatial transformations. In this paper, I put Jacques Derrida's contemplations regarding justice as incalculable in conversation with critiques of public witnessing and the role of empathy for catalyzing political action, and I do so to present some speculations over why a social justice movement in northern Mexico has weakened domestically as it has gained steam internationally. The movement has grown since 1993 in response to the violence against women and girls and the surrounding impunity that has made northern Mexico famous as a place of ‘femicide’. By examining these events in relation to the debates on calculating justice and on the politics of witnessing, I hope to add to the growing literature within and beyond geography on the interplay of emotion and social justice politics while illustrating what is at stake in these dynamics for Mexico's democracy and for women's participation in it.

scholarly journals The Cultural Realms and Their Implications for Development: A study of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Onyebuchi James Ile ◽  
Susan Dauda
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
Harmful Traditional Practices ◽  
Do So

Traditions are very important for a community, society, family or organization. They are like glue that holds people together and continues to do so for generations. Although it is beneficial to man there are some aspects of tradition that are actually harmful and even dangerous. In this study of Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim we see some of these traditions and the effect they have on the characters. The Objective was to show that literature helps us become aware of harmful traditional practices and even positions us to make interventions. The paper also notes how these traditions are mainly targeted at women and girls. The methodology was largely qualitative.

scholarly journals In Search of Identity: A Comparative Feminist Exploration of Muslim Female Sexuality in Ali’s Twilight in Delhi and Shahraz’s The Holy Woman

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-95
Author(s):  
Fariha Chaudhary ◽  
Qamar Khushi
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Islamic Feminism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

A critical exploration of Muslim female sexuality through the feminist analysis of the various female characters in Twilight in Delhi and The Holy Woman, by Ahmad Ali and Qaisra Shahraz respectively, is the central focus of this paper. Theoretical insights have been drawn from Islamic feminism and Postcolonial feminist scholarship for the contextual understanding of female sexuality. Focusing specifically on the issue of female sexuality and marriages, in both of the novels, this paper demonstrates that Muslim women in the postcolonial Pakistan seems to have gained a certain measure of agency as compared to the plight of women in the colonial milieu of Ali’s novel. However, examined closely, as this paper will highlight, women in both of the novels, still in certain ways, remain helpless victims of sexual victimization. This comparative analysis of novels based in two varied settings of colonial and post-colonial Muslim societies reveals that female sexuality remains a stifling point of contention which is predominantly controlled by men.

scholarly journals Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
Mirjam Wajsberg
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Control Field ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Migration Control ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Do So

This article takes the emotion of fatigue both as its analytical object as well as a methodological tool to engage in a reflexive ethnography, to question the categorical borders of researcher, researched and the field, in the politicised context of migration studies. I do so by drawing on ethnographic material collected during my fieldwork between Athens, Hamburg and Copenhagen in 2019–2020. This article’s theoretical and conceptual framing is informed by feminist scholarship on emotions, as well as decolonial scholarship in migration studies. By bringing these theoretical threads into the conversation, I study the different qualities of fatigue, amongst others the collective; how fatigue circulates in and through the ethnographic field; and how it shapes relations between refugees, humanitarian aid workers, activists and researchers such as me. Following fatigue across and through its many different instances in this reflexive ethnography of emotions lays bare the uneven emotional geographies that exist and are (re-)produced in the encounters between actors in Europe’s migration control field.

Continuing the dialogue: postcolonial feminist scholarship and Bourdieu ? discourses of culture and points of connection

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
JM Anderson ◽  
S Reimer Kirkham ◽  
AJ Browne ◽  
MJ Lynam
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

scholarly journals ‘A leap forward’? Critiquing the criminalisation of domestic abuse in Northern Ireland

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-617
Author(s):  
Rachel Killean
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Coercive Control ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Do So

Following in the footsteps of other jurisdictions across the UK and Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland is currently taking steps to criminalise ‘domestic abuse’. The proposed offence is strongly influenced by research into ‘coercive control’, a framing popularised by Evan Stark that captures both physical and nonphysical forms of abuse. In this article, I introduce the Northern Ireland Domestic Abuse and Family Proceedings Bill, before analysing its likely impacts on victim-survivors. To do so, I draw from three key critiques of criminalisation that have emerged from both reformist and anti-carceral feminist scholarship: first, that implementation will pose practical challenges; second, that criminalisation will result in a range of unintended harms; and, third, that criminalisation alone is an ineffective response to domestic abuse. In light of these critiques, I argue for a more holistic response, which considers the underlying social structures and dynamics that contextualise the phenomenon of domestic abuse.

scholarly journals Continuum of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Risks among Syrian Refugee Women and Girls in Lebanon

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Roupetz ◽  
Garbern Stephanie ◽  
Michael Saja ◽  
Bergquist Harveen ◽  
Glaesmer Heide ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Host Community ◽  
First Person ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: A myriad of factors including socio-economic hardships impact refugees, with females being additionally exposed to various forms of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). The aim of this qualitative analysis was to provide new insight into the experiences of SGBV among Syrian refugee women and girls in Lebanon. Methods: The data are gained from a larger mixed-methods study, investigating the experiences of Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon, using an iPad and the data collection tool, SenseMaker ®. The survey intentionally did not ask direct questions about experiences of SGBV but instead enabled stories about SGBV to become apparent from a wide range of experiences in the daily lives of Syrian girls. F or this analysis, first-person stories by female respondents about experiences of SGBV were included in a thematic analysis. A random selection of male respondents who provided stories about the experiences of Syrian girls in Lebanon was also analyzed. Results: In total, 70 of the 327 first person stories from female respondents and 42 of the 159 stories shared by male respondents included dialogue on SGBV. While experiences of sexual harassment were mainly reported by females, male respondents were much more likely to talk explicitly about sexual exploitation. Due to different forms of SGBV risks in public, unmarried girls were at high risk of child marriage, whereas married girls more often experienced some form of IPV and/or DV. In abusive relationships, some girls continued to face violence as they sought divorces and attempted to flee unhealthy situations. Conclusions: This study contributes to existing literature by examining SGBV risks and experiences for refugees integrated into their host community, and also by incorporating the perceptions of men. Our findings shed light on the importance of recognizing the impact of SGBV on the family as a whole, in addition to each of the individual members and supports considering the cycle of SGBV not only across the woman ’ s lifespan but also across generations . Gendered differences in how SGBV was discussed may have implications for the design of future research focused on SGBV.

scholarly journals UM ESBOÇO DE UMA PERSONALIDADE MÍSTICA - DOI 10.5752/P.1983-2478.2014v10n17p13

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Luiz Felipe Pondé
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Short History ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pierre Hadot ◽  
Do So

ResumoA intenção deste artigo é fazer um esboço do que seria uma personalidade mística portadora de uma ciência mística. Para tal, levantamos alguns instrumentos conceituais para este fim. Percorremos um breve histórico semântico da palavra “mística” no cristianismo. Em seguida, identificamos o que seria o elemento místico nas religiões, segundo o pesquisador Friedrich Von Hügel. Na sequência, analisamos os conceitos de exercícios espirituais do filósofo Pierre Hadot na filosofia antiga e de transcendentalismo (autoconfiança) no romantismo americano de Ralph Waldo Emerson, a fim de neles iluminar o que seria uma filosofia mística. Como último instrumento, vimos o conceito de aristocracia espiritual do filósofo russo Nicolai Berdiaev. Os principais traços dessa personalidade identificados são: ausência do problema de sentido da existência, enfrentamento da contingência, amor espontâneo pela vida, vontade autoconfiante, coragem, generosidade e atenção a presença da dimensão transcendente.Palavras-Chave: Mística. Cristianismo. Exercícios espirituais. Transcendentalismo. AbstractThis article intends to a make a sketch of what would be a mystical personality and its mystical science. In order to do so, we have identified some conceptual tools. First, we have followed a short history of the semantics of the word “mysticism” in Christianity. From there, we have moved onto Friedrich Von Hügel’s concept of mystical element, Pierre Hadot’s spiritual exercises in ancient philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalism (self reliance), and, last, but not least, Nicolai Berdiaev’s concept of spiritual aristocracy. The main traits of the mystical personality we have identified are: lack of fear concerning the problem of meaning life, facing of contingence, spontaneuos love for life, self reliance, courage, generosity and atention to the transcendent dimension.Key words: Mysticism. Christianity. Spiritual exercises.Transcendentalism.

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