Form Of Emancipation Research Articles

Her Space: Women’s Collective Living as a Form of Emancipation

Collective and cooperative living; a free, nonhierarchical space to express their individuality. These are some of the characters that emerged in feminist and women-centred utopias. La cité des dames by C. de Pizan (1405) and Herland by C. Perkins Gilman (1915) are two literary texts that, far in space and time, reflect on the modes of inhabiting spaces, in a fictional way, through the construction of an ideal milieu. Charged with a transformational power that allows them to go beyond a mere narration and become space, they constitute a tool for these women to critique the hierarchical living which reproduced (and still reproduces) gender roles. However, "What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?" through this question, Dolores Hayden condensed the lessons learnt from several built experiences of collective and collaborative housing that aimed at freeing women going from an androcentric to a gendered city. This contribution becomes part of the discussion about the spatialization – or translation – of gender equality into spaces and architectures by focusing specifically on women's collective living at different scales: the building, the block/complex, and the neighbourhood. These projects will be presented focusing on the role of architecture becoming a form of emancipation for women.

Self-translation as a Form of Emancipation. The Case of Potseluy and A kushby Celia Dropkin

The article aims to address the emancipatory character of self-translation on the example of CeliaDropkin’s (1887–1956) poetic texts – Potseluy and A kush [A Kiss]. It introduces the linguisticbiography of the poet, which is an important aspect of the origins of both texts, and focuseson how the female character is constructed in the poems, and on how they engage various traditionsof Russian and Yiddish literatures. The discussion of Dropkin’s diverse poetic strategies shedslight on the potential of self-translation as a translingual practice that allows the author to createa new/different poetic voice.

Bilal's Journey, a Story of Emancipation

Abstract Bilal's story traces the journey of migrant youths who abandon European reception projects while remaining undocumented. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and inquiry into Bilal's lived experience, evidence is presented on how the Italian reception system fails to address the migrants’ needs and vulnerabilities. Labour is a central element in the life stories of migrant youths, although access to the labour market is constrained by laws on protection of minors and asylum bureaucracies. This fact collides with the youths’ aspirations, in which mobility and economic independence are seen as fundamental elements of ‘adulthood’. Against this backdrop, steps should be made in both legal and humanitarian approaches to youth migration to promote a regular and dignifying access to labour as a possible form of emancipation and citizenship.

Quantum Black creative geographies: embodiment, coherence and transcendence in a time of climate crisis†

This paper brings together three parallel strands of work—Black Geographies, geographies of Caribbean creative practice, and quantum geographies. The paper begins by considering static linear spacetimes as colonial spacetimes, and draws on Michelle Wright's critique of Middle Passage epistemologies, from Black Studies, to elaborate on this. It then moves through a number of ways in which, over the last couple of decades, I have drawn together insights from Wilson Harris and Karen Barad to explore how quantum mechanics can facilitate a conversation about uncertainty, connectedness, entanglement and the liveliness of always already climate‐changed landscapes in relation to Black embodiment. In pushing briefly into string theory, the paper ends with the possibility of connecting spirituality with materialities, to push towards more politically attuned forms of emancipation.

Revisiting Entrepreneurship as Emancipation: Learning from subalternized women in post-revolutionary Tunisia

In this article, we investigate how women beneficiaries in a social enterprise in post-revolutionary Tunisia are agents in their emancipation, including through infrapolitical tactics. We conceptualize their position as beneficiaries as a form of subalternity induced from social, economic and political injustice. We deploy the extended case method in a Tunisian ecotourism social enterprise, connecting the micro-level experiences of the women beneficiaries to the macro-level context. Our findings show how beneficiaries engage in three forms of emancipation: affirming their dreams; navigating gender relations; and defending their interests. We thus contribute to existing research by theoretically extending the emancipation–entrepreneurship locus beyond the lead entrepreneur. We also contribute by extending our understanding of subalternized people’s resistance repertoire beyond the hidden vs public resistance dichotomy. Finally, we challenge the representation of ‘subalterns’ as a homogeneous and passive category by showing the intersectional differences that affect these women’s agentic possibilities and, thus, their pathways to emancipation.

A Cênica Feminista: teorizações sobre a ciência e a prática da cena teatral feministas e a importância de uma pedagogia feminista no campo teatral

ABSTRACT The Feminist Scenics: theorizations about science and practice of the feminist theater scene and the space and importance of feminist epistemologies in the theatrical field1 – This article describes a feminist scenic, resulting from the application of feminist epistemologies to theater, synthesizing the criticism they make of the canonical demarcations linked to the act of knowing, which contribute to the invalidation of women's experience. Its way of functioning is associated with the awareness of gender hierarchies, to which it reacts through the formulation of poetic and political strategies to confront discriminatory and sexist social models and their symbolic supports. It is concluded that this feminist scenic finds centrality in pedagogy, where emancipatory forms of knowledge and territories of resistance and creation emerge, which give new meaning to being.

Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure: thinking with Cissie Gool House

Understood as a direct claiming and remaking of vacant space by marginalized urban residents, occupations claim the right to housing and disrupt property relations, surfacing conflicting rationalities between different valorizations of land and infrastructure. We are interested in occupation as a reparative practice, intervening into the socio-material fabric of the city, with the potential to remake urban life-worlds. We draw inspiration from scholarship on infrastructural repair, conceived as the necessary labor of sustaining and filling in the gaps of fragile systems of provisioning that would otherwise be abandoned or left to decay. We situate our reflection in Cape Town, at the Cissie Gool House occupation, a former hospital that was vacant when it was occupied in 2017. In paying attention to the labors of endurance at CGH, this paper advances an expanded conceptual framework of repair, conceiving of occupations as a reparative urban infrastructure that includes material and affective practices. Our concern is with the enactment of more emancipatory forms of reparative practices that prefigure more hopeful futures. In thinking with CGH, we draw out a set of practices that can be read as central to sustaining, reclaiming, and future-making, naming these: infrastructural repair, prefiguration, defiant endurance, and refusal.

Enjoyment in the Anthropocene: the extimacy of ecological catastrophe in Donut County

ABSTRACT Consciousness raising seems to be the most pressing task facing any project for environmental sustainability today. A psychoanalytic interpretation of the climate crisis, however, reveals that a far more urgent challenge is recognizing that we might be deriving jouissance, or unconscious enjoyment, from the very worsening of the crisis. This article contends that videogames are the ideal medium through which to grasp the form that our unconscious enjoyment takes—and, if mobilized against self-destructive capitalism, the emancipatory form our enjoyment could take—in the Anthropocene. Drawing on an analysis of the videogame Donut County, it makes two psychoanalytic interventions in ecocritical theory. The first is that any theory of the climate crisis must account for the subject of the unconscious—not as a nature-dominating individual, but as a hole in material reality. The second is that any project for environmental sustainability must avow the subject’s death-driven enjoyment rather than repress or avoid it.

Politics and Aesthetics: Jacques Rancière and Louis-Gabriel Gauny

This paper argues that much of Jacques Rancière’s redefinition of emancipation owes a lot to one key character from his archival research on nineteenth-century worker-poets, Louis-Gabriel Gauny, the self-proclaimed plebeian philosopher. This is especially the case in regard to Rancière’s understanding of subjectivation forming a double of the self and a double of social reality as worlds within worlds. The paper puts forward that Gauny’s form of emancipation is valid today as an aesthetic revolution that reveals Rancière’s practices of equality to be an emancipatory way of life. In doing so, it will engage with Gauny’s connection with the contemporary precariat.

Une redéfinition du féminisme africain dans Femme nue, femme noire de Calixthe Beyala, romancière à contre-courant

This article examines the issues of literary impudence and homosexuality so much repudiated by African feminist theorists in Calixthe Beyala’s erotic novel, Femme nue, femme noire. It reflects on the pertinence of using African feminist ideologies in the criticism of Beyala’s fictions considering the fact her novelistic themes run contrary to the African feminist postulation where homosexuality, sex work and other transgressive tendencies constitute a strange and imported phenomenon. This article analyses the radicalization of African feminism through a close reading of Calixthe Beyala’s Femme nue, femme noire by highlighting recourse to subversion as a radical tendency in Beyala’s writings, which consists not only subverting the status quo through engaging in taboo-related discourse but also defending the sexual independence of the modern African woman as a form of emancipation. It concludes that the novel exhibits a new African feminism which is neither adapted to the collective feminist ethics nor to the African literary canon but to the individual feminine reality aimed at the total emancipation of the African woman.

Solidarity and Place-Making in Supranational Politics: A Review of Inés Valdez's Transnational Cosmopolitanism and Paulina Ochoa Espejo's On Borders

Solidarity and Place-Making in Supranational Politics:A Review of Inés Valdez's Transnational Cosmopolitanism and Paulina Ochoa Espejo's On Borders Arturo Chang (bio) Inés Valdez. Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 228 pp. $105.00 (hc). ISBN: 9781108630047. Paulina Ochoa Espejo. On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 344 pp. $32.95 (pb). ISBN: 9780190074203. Recent debates in political theory have turned to supranational politics to better delineate spaces of collective resistance, emancipation, and solidarity. Beyond the international sphere, this supranational turn centers varied forms of place-based practices and spaces that frame political organizing—among these are transnational, hemispheric, convergent, and scalar approaches.1 The role of the nation-state and nation-led global order within these frameworks, however, remains in dispute. To what extent can theories of political solidarity and collective resistance truly decenter the nation-state given its dominance as an organizing and regulating institution? Similarly, questions remain regarding the respective commitments that political leaders, thinkers, and marginalized groups hold toward the nation-state as an emancipatory project. While the field has attended to these problems via the history of political thought and contemporary political theory, space remains for addressing them from a normative standpoint. Two recent books speak to this need in significant ways: Inés Valdez's Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft (2019) and Paulina Ochoa Espejo's On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place (2020). While Valdez and Ochoa Espejo respond to distinct, and sometimes contrasting political questions, both are invested in constructing a normative framework that can adjudicate between experiences of injustice as they manifest across state jurisdictions and within local, national, transnational, and territorial contexts. In this regard, putting Ochoa Espejo and Valdez in conversation provides a helpful account of where studies of supranational politics stand; further, their overlap reveals a need to attend to questions of place and place-making politics within these debates. Valdez's, Transnational Cosmopolitanism proposes a framework that transnationalizes cosmopolitan thought to better capture forms of "solidarity that contest the exclusionary structure of domestic and international realms of politics" of national spaces (1). In doing so, Valdez draws on W.E.B. Du Bois's writings on transnational solidarity among marginalized groups, which emphasize the "political craft" of building networks of commiseration via place-based politics—what Valdez calls the transnational "counter-public" (153). Transnational cosmopolitanism, however, also draws on neo-Kantian principles that [End Page 393] are themselves enmeshed in the domestic and international politics that subject marginalized groups to colonial and neocolonial power. Thus, as Valdez argues, transnational cosmopolitanism offers a "normative and theoretical problem" that questions to what extent neo-Kantian cosmopolitanism can be reimagined to account for solidarities which "facilitate emancipatory forms of political subjectivity, hospitable political exchanges, and coalition making that contest exclusionary forms" of governance (123). Transnational Cosmopolitanism embarks on the task of amending neo-Kantian cosmopolitanism and its privileging of Eurocentric notions of solidarity from the outset (6). In response to the limitations of Kantian and neo-Kantian cosmopolitanism, transnational cosmopolitanism proposes four changes in its approach to global politics (18–19). First, it accounts for the role of "heterogeneous racial structures of power" in grounding different forms of subjection across domestic, international, and transnational politics. Second, it aims to think beyond state and interstate politics by centering the "political craft" (18) of cosmopolitan solidarity that operates beyond these contexts. Third, it highlights identity-based coalitions that support "transnational counter-publics" (19) by pursuing emancipation from the margins. Fourth, transnational cosmopolitanism "transfigures extant understandings of cosmopolitanism, communication, and hospitality" through the "transnational and solidaristic political craft of subaltern actors" (19). Valdez aims to identify the "processes of will-formation" that allow coalitions to organize toward overcoming domination within domestic and international politics. Valdez's critique of Kantian and neo-Kantian cosmopolitanism comprises the first two chapters of the book. As Valdez shows through a contextualist account of the anticolonial principles behind Perpetual Peace in chapter 1, Kant's cosmopolitanism was committed to a civilizational and racial hierarchy (24). As such, Kant...

The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston by Karen Woods Weierman

Reviewed by: The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston by Karen Woods Weierman Sarah E. Yerima The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston. By Karen Woods Weierman. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019. xv + 164 pp. In 1836, a six-year-old enslaved girl named Med accompanied her enslaver from New Orleans to Boston. As an enslaved child in a free state, Med possessed an obscure legal status: should she be accorded the rights of legal personhood, or did she retain the status of animate property? The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided Med's fate in Commonwealth v. Aves (1836), when it ruled that enslaved people transported into Massachusetts were entitled to freedom. While many scholars have discussed the free-soil legal precedent set by Commonwealth v. Aves, few have considered Med's life before and after the case. Now, throughout this book, Karen Woods Weierman carefully examines Commonwealth v. Aves by placing Med, the child litigant, at the center of the suit's history. After the ruling, the newly freed Med was released into state custody. Separated from her family, she spent two years in a Massachusetts orphanage for poor, Black children before dying from an unnamed illness. How could Med have met such a tragic fate? Weierman contends that scholars must be attentive to the minor, dependent status of children who served as plaintiffs in freedom suits. In so doing, we gain a better understanding of the complicated, incomplete forms of emancipation that freedom suits often generated. For a formerly enslaved child, freedom "really meant being under the control of different adults" (41). By connecting the histories of slavery, childhood, and the law, Weierman makes a vital scholarly contribution and a compelling argument about the precarious nature of freedom in the antebellum North. The book is organized into five thematic chapters. In the first chapter, Weierman discusses the free-soil principle as it emerged in eighteenth-century [End Page 332] England with Somerset v. Stewart (1772) and compares Med's life to that of Phillis Wheatley. Both Med and Wheatley were brought to Boston as enslaved children. Both were embraced in abolitionist circles, emancipated and, eventually, abandoned by white benefactors. Wheatley, however, lived into adulthood and left behind a body of creative work. Weierman asks how we might "be responsibly creative" in using Wheatley's extant writings "to imagine Med's interiority" (28). In the second chapter, Weierman details the proceedings of Med's trial. Med's enslaver, Samuel Slater, argued that he maintained guardianship over Med in Massachusetts because he possessed ownership of Med's mother. Slater also argued that Med's manumission was wrongful since it would separate Med from the rest of her family. Med's lawyers countered that Slater could reunify the family by manumitting all of Med's relatives. Throughout this chapter, Weierman notes how each side professed its right to speak for Med while failing to ask Med what she held most important. Thus, Med's minor status made her own wishes and desires insignificant to enslavers and antislavery activists alike. The third chapter considers the contested meaning of Med's freedom. How free is an emancipated child who has been separated from her family and placed under the care and supervision of strangers? Weierman examines Med's fate after the ruling and explores the outcomes of other freedom suits with child litigants. Weierman argues that antislavery activists failed "to see beyond the freedom suit scenario, to understand what the outcomes meant for actual children, and to revise the script in response to complicated situations" (63). In the fourth and fifth chapters, Weierman follows Med's erasure from antislavery narratives in the wake of her death. Weierman first turns to commemorative efforts, noting how many memorials of Commonwealth v. Aves sought not to honor Med but to laud the ostensibly superior moral character of the free North and its white residents. Weierman then considers how the legal principles of Med's case shaped nineteenth-century realist novels about slavery and freedom. Characters partially inspired by Med were often portrayed as adults, as was the case in Maria Weston Chapman's...

More Analysis on Fairy Character in Chinese Classic Legend Novel in Vietnam Ancient Time

This paper aims to present More Analysis On Fairy Character in Chinese Classic Legend Novel in Vietnam Ancient Time. This study mainly use historical method and qualitative analysis methods And authors use examples as stories and tales in ancient time. Next, it is inevitable that In most other stories, however, Fairies are portrayed as characters who actively break free from the earthly system of power. The forms of emancipation from the power of fairies are also very diverse. It can be concluded that the ideal of escapism of fairies in Vietnamese legends is a form of expression of the Taoist ideal of life.

The Portrayal of Female Figure on Greek Interwar Cigarette Packs as a Form of emancipation, Allure and Sexism

The Greek interwar period is indicative of the formation of the social class and moral profile of women in the rest of the twentieth century. It is the period during which small, but significant changes were observed in the personal and social status quo of the hitherto oppressed women in the province, but also in the large urban centers of the country. At the same time, many innovative changes took place in several mass production fields, rendering thus the interwar period an important experimental, but also pioneering era. One of these changes was the decision of the local tobacco companies to expand the sale of their products to the female consumer audience, following the promotion and sales model of western markets. The depiction of the female figure on Greek cigarette packs constituted a bold business initiative, as it was believed that in this way women would initially become familiar with and later would fervently adopt a product that was traditionally addressed to a male market. This research focuses on the dual interpretation of the use of sensual female figures in cigarette packets of the Greek interwar period both through the concepts of emancipation and liberation on the part of female consumers and through the concepts of sexism and gender inequality on the part of male consumers.

Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential: reflections from Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan

ABSTRACT This paper is a theoretical contribution to discussions about the emancipatory potential of citizenship education across four sites (i.e. Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan). By reflecting on policy and empirical data from our four contexts of study, we discuss whether citizenship education manifests different conditions of emancipatory education (modern, postmodern, and posthumous). We argue that citizenship education offers possibilities for emancipation, but these are constrained by capitalist and Enlightenment barriers. We conclude that if an emancipatory form of citizenship education is to be possible, there is a need to make room for politics in school classrooms and further politicise epistemological and anthropological assumptions. We recommend a form of citizenship education that conceptualises emancipation as our ability to respond ethically to situated challenges by thinking by ourselves with others.

Transmethodological mo(ve)ments

This article presents the authors’ collaboration with a former gang leader, referred to as X, as part of a research project exploring identity transformation and mo(ve)ments beyond gang engagement. The project is based on a transmethodological approach that involves different embodied researcher positionalities, theoretical engagements, and a merging of diverse research fields. The exploration of the different movements and changes in X’s life is based on, what we call a transmethodological mo(ve)ment ethnography, exploring mo(ve)ments of transformation of identity, engagement and community in the everyday life of X, who is striving to become a good, practicing Muslim. This approach makes it possible to go into depth with key moments of change in a subject’s life and pursue them from different theoretical perspectives by integrating and transgressing concepts, analytical gazes and positionalities. To analyze and understand the former gang leader’s life and process of transformation, we utilize poststructuralist and decolonial theory and integrate these approaches with those of social practice theory and critical psychology. In this article, we examine how we as researchers can transverse different theoretical and embodied positionings, analyzing transmethodology as closely linked to the positioning of the researcher, and ultimately pointing towards an emancipatory form of research practice.

The labour market integration of migrants and refugees: career guidance and the newly arrived.

This scoping paper sets out to consider various aspects of the phenomenon of people on the move, and to examine some of the ways in which career guidance has responded to the challenge of integrating the newly arrived. The paper is informed by a recognition of the dignity of individuals above any classificatory system that places persons in a hierarchy, with some having access to rights that others are denied. This stance requires career practitioners to confront the prevalent vocabulary, discourses and attitudes circulating in the mainstream in order to become aware of—and to overcome—personal prejudice, thus opening up possibilities for more socially just forms of service. A synthesis of relevant literature concerning the integration of migrants and refugees in the labour market is provided in order to signpost emancipatory forms of career guidance, ones that move beyond an emphasis on individual resilience to take seriously the impact of exclusionary social practices and structures. The paper concludes by highlighting a number of initiatives that suggest that career guidance is rising to the challenge of catering for a diverse group of newly arrived by mobilising theoretical frameworks that are fit for purpose, by developing bespoke training programmes for practitioners, and by sharing the lessons learnt from the field.

Imagining Peace Outside of Liberal Statebuilding: Anarchist Theory as Pathway to Emancipatory Peacefacilitation

Critical scholarship on peace has coined the term liberal peacebuilding and proven that it is unsuccessful, even counterproductive, in achieving that what it sets out to do—foster peace after violent conflict. The dominant part of this endeavor has been statebuilding. This paper adds to a slowly developing literature that starts to ask the question what an alternative to the reliance on statebuilding could look like. By employing anarchist theory, a new theoretical methodology is introduced to International Relations that allows to imagine forms of peace outside the liberal paradigm whilst preventing imperialistic claims. Such an emancipatory peace practice based on anarchism is envisioned as to build on prefigurative politics and direct action, strengthening autonomy, decentralization, and horizontality as well as challenge all structural forms of domination through radical forms of self-determination. Incorporating such an anarchist agenda offers one perspective on what fostering peace outside decontextualized and imposed liberal nation states could be. I argue that challenging statebuilding foreshadows a greater implication an anarchist research agenda promotes, namely, the need to move away from peace building toward emancipatory forms of peace facilitation.

Industrial Strategies

By emphasizing the rhetorical processes integral to arts entrepreneurship, this study hopes to open up a rhetorical vocabulary that will simultaneously expand arts entrepreneurship discourse and bridge the gap between its constituent terms. Likewise, the abstract processes of rhetoric offer an insightful perspective on the specific processes of entrepreneurship in the arts. The first wave of Industrial Music in the late 1970s and early ‘80s is taken as a case study in order to articulate how a group of artist-entrepreneurs used information, attention and sound itself as rhetorical tactics to engage in an emancipatory form of arts entrepreneurship. In step with these objectives, my rhetorical model tethers notions of socio-aesthetic attack and emancipation to a critical rhetoric informed by poststructuralist thought. The resulting analysis shows how Industrial artists used rhetorical tactics as entrepreneurial bricolage to both span and challenge the divide between business, artistic and social practice.

Female Crime and Delinquency: A Kaleidoscope of Changes at the Intersection of Gender and Age

This article discusses the role that gender and age play in female crime and delinquency in Portugal, drawing on the voices of female offenders across different generations—childhood, youth, and adulthood. Based on the analysis of 49 interviews with female offenders, it explores the ways in which these girls and women construct and account for their own criminal behavior. The results reveal a kaleidoscope of changes cutting across generational groups, punctuated by increasing involvement of younger groups in offending as a form of emancipation. Young and older female offenders show different patterns of offending, which reflect multiple and ambivalent old and new forms of femininity. Girls’ and women’s paths both to and in offending have their own idiosyncrasies. They also reflect the way gender is being constantly reconfigured and reconstructed through time, and in different social and institutional contexts.