Abstract
AbstractThis chapter analyses the establishment and expansion of antiracist feminism in the last decade throughout the Nordic region, with new groups, media sites, and public events organised, especially in the large cities. I examine antiracist feminist and queer of colour activism in which the main or sole actors belong to groups racialised as non-white or “others” in Nordic societies. A fundamental argument developed in the chapter is the central role and potential of these emerging social movements to reconfigure political agendas and tackling of pressing societal issues, due to their capacity to overlap and connect the borders of antiracist, feminist, and (to some extent) class-based politics. The chapter further argues for the usefulness of theorising the neoliberal turn of racial capitalism as the societal condition in which feminist activism takes place.
Highlights
Within both feminist research and critical race studies, the changing conditions of political action under neoliberalism have been the focus of intensive discussions, framed especially around the concepts of postraciality and postfeminism
I have shown that other processes that have very different effects parallel the depoliticising and individualising tendencies of neoliberal capitalism, resulting in a repoliticising of questions of race, gender, and class
The role of antiracist feminism mobilising those racialised as “others” in the Nordic region is essential for such repoliticisation processes
Summary
Within both feminist research and critical race studies, the changing conditions of political action under neoliberalism have been the focus of intensive discussions, framed especially around the concepts of postraciality and postfeminism. This chapter examines antiracist feminist and queer of colour activism, in which the main or sole actors belong to groups racialised as non-white or “others” in Nordic societies It investigates how the activists articulate the need for such activism; their views on cooperation and solidarity with other social justice movements; and the development of their political agendas in the context of neoliberal capitalism. In an effort to work with the concept of racial capitalism, Gargi Bhattacharyya (2018) combines feminist and postcolonial research to bring in perspectives of unpaid labour and populations pushed to the edges of capitalist production Her analysis identifies racialised processes that divide populations into workers, almost-workers, and non-workers, with differential economic resources and life prospects. These analyses understand coalitional politics to be based on the fact that groups participating in coalitions recognise themselves as subjects, and are treated by others as such
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