“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars
This article focuses on female bodies co‐laboring across the racial lines and academic‐activist divides to explore both the potentials and constraints of feminist solidarity in the hyper‐masculine and ultra‐nationalist normative order of the global war on terror. Anthropological studies have deconst...
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Veröffentlicht in: | American anthropologist 2024-09, Vol.126 (3), p.509-520 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This article focuses on female bodies co‐laboring across the racial lines and academic‐activist divides to explore both the potentials and constraints of feminist solidarity in the hyper‐masculine and ultra‐nationalist normative order of the global war on terror. Anthropological studies have deconstructed phantasmatic narratives of the global war on terror by disclosing its racialized and classed structure. However, what remains understudied is how racialized female bodies are subjected to the biopower and necropower of this war. This ethnography concentrates on the feminist solidarity between Özlem Yasak and Serra Hakyemez, the coauthors of this article, which stretches over 13 years and moves between the colony and the metropole and the Global South and Global North. It examines how a Turkish academic and a Kurdish activist (both lower middle‐class women) forge, cultivate, and repair their comradeship as they move from an immigration office to their family house to neoliberal universities. Based on what we call the Other‐graphy as a new feminist method, this article argues that the global war on terror expands its reach as the humanitarian and neoliberal regimes of power recruit activists and academics to the fantasy of autonomous subjectivity posited against their possible political solidarity.
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Este artículo se enfoca en cuerpos de mujeres cotrabajando a través de líneas raciales y divisiones académico‐activistas para explorar tanto los potenciales como constreñimientos de la solidaridad feminista en el orden normativo hipermasculino y ultranacionalista de la guerra global contra el terrorismo. Estudios antropológicos han deconstruido narrativas fantasmáticas de la guerra global contra el terrorismo al develar su estructura racializada y clasista. Sin embargo, lo que permanece sin estudiarse es cómo los cuerpos de mujeres racializados están sujetos al biopoder y necropoder de esta guerra. Esta etnografía se concentra en la solidaridad femenina entre Özlem Yasak y Serra Hakyemez, las coautoras de este artículo, el cual se extiende a lo largo de 13 años y se mueve entre la colonia y la metrópoli del Sur Global y el Norte Global. Examina cómo una académica turca y una activista kurda (ambas mujeres de clase media) forjan, cultivan y reparan su camaradería en la medida que ellas se mueven de una oficina de inmigración a su casa de familia y a universidades neoliberales. Basado en lo que llamamos Otra‐grafía como un nuevo método feminista, este artíc |
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ISSN: | 0002-7294 1548-1433 |
DOI: | 10.1111/aman.13978 |