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FROM INTEGRATION TO DISRUPTION – HOW TO TRANSFORM GENDER RELATIONS?
Women’s movements and disruption LISA VENEKLASEN, JASS (Just Associates)
September 20, 2013
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Movements=Disruption
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Justice movements organize + mobilize collective action to disrupt the status quo to demand social change
Outside strategies to push inside agendasFormal + informal linkages Broad constituency – most effected #1 Big vision of alternative, clear values
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Interrupt + Make noise“Withdrawing cooperation” (Piven)• RESIST/PROTEST –boycotts, demos, occupations block routines
• CREATE NOISE, PRESSURE to surface + expose problems
• USE SYMBOLISM to re‐interpret reality + give new meaning
Getting on the Agenda
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Disruptive new tools + spaces
Globalizing symbols, uniting, multiplying scale of disparate demands
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Disrupting Private ‐‐ Public “Our political revolutions will not succeed unless they are accompanied by revolutions of thought –social, sexual, and cultural revolutions that topple the Mubareks of our minds as well as our bedrooms.” Mona Eltahawy, 2012 “Why do they hate us?”
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Disrupting norms, roles, “morals” ‐bodies, sex, sexuality
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Disrupting Taboos, Mobilizing Sex
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All about power
• Relational, dynamic• Socialized, internalized, institutionalized • Good v bad? depends on purpose • Think “physics” • Power over vs. to, with, within, for • 3 faces of power over: visible‐shadow‐invisible
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Power over & transformative power Power Overwealth, exploitation; dominance + control via violence or threat of violence; accumulate MORE power with systemic exclusion, discriminationSeen as win‐lose, zero sum game
Power Withinhope + belief in what’s possible; self‐esteem; respect for difference/ dignity; hope; passion for change; empathy
Power WithCommon ground across differences; unity + collective strength; shared struggle; mutual support, solidarity & collaboration
Power Tounique potential of every; agencyperson to shape her life + world;to question, resist, make a difference
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Individual: realms of power
• Public (roles + relationships in public life, social structures)
• Private (roles + relationships in family, friends, marriage)
• Intimate (relationship to self, self‐esteem + sense of one’s own body)
Often contradictory + confusing – women’s movement‐building must work at all levels
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Power over & Change strategiesVisible – formal structures of decision‐making
Hidden (shadow) behind the scenes
Invisible –beliefs norms, desires, ideologies
“Inside” strategies: Lobbying, advocacy + reforming political institutions
Mass‐based mobilization, campaigns + “outside” strategies using media to disrupt + shift discourse, name & shame, reveal truths, alternative agendas
Hearts + minds: critical consciousness, education to question power, dominant ideas + norms, resist + create alternative forms of power; communicate alternatives to appeal to human connection; gender‐race‐ class‐ability‐sexuality
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Empowerment assume conflict
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Disrupt internalized beliefs
• Power to… (agency, capacity to act)
• Power within…(dignity, self‐esteem)
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Disrupt shame = demand respect
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Disrupt victimhood – joy as action
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Power with… (collective, solidarity, safety)
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Democracy as demand + practice
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Women disrupt the frontlines
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Disrupt fear + silence
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Disrupt sexism in movements
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Disrupt feminist myths
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read
history, is woman’s virtue. It is through disobedience
that progress has been made, through
disobedience and through rebellion.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)