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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Paul, Nilanjana
• Goswami, Namita
• Nandigama, Sailaja
• Parameswaran, Gowri
• Afzal-Khan, Fawzia

Titel

Introduction: South Asian Feminisms and Youth Activism: Focus on India and Pakistan

Ist Teil von

• Journal of international women's studies, 2022-08, Vol.24 (2), p.1-9

Ort / Verlag

Bridgewater: Bridgewater State College

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• These are turbulent times for the many countries that form the Global South. South Asian nation-states are no exception; the last half century has ushered in liberalization of economies, forced structural adjustments, climate chaos, criminalization of indigenous and lower caste populations, and rapid technological changes. All these forces have resulted in massive upheavals often manifested in political, economic, and social crises. Experts observe that in times of instability, the most marginalized groups, already the target of social violence, are disproportionately subjected to enormous stress, anxiety, and insecurity. In South Asia, women, as one such group that faces multiple intersectional oppressions depending on class, caste, religious locations, etc. have been active participants on the frontlines of struggles for social justice and equity. In the new era of hardened nationalism and militarism, they have also been the targets of violence and brutality. Challenging and complicating the national security analytic that drives most area studies approaches to South Asian knowledge production, this special issue centers transnational feminist work that can help us read various social justice movements unfolding across South Asia through a queer optic3 that aims to decolonize the normative narratives of nation, gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and religion, among others. In being alert to the complex shifts in our understandings of these lived embodiments of sexed categories, we have included interventions by women from varying backgrounds and selected essays reflecting womens many lived realities: as mothers, daughters, wives, lovers, and activists across different backgrounds, as they take on the acute challenges of forging coalitional alliances to assert agency in public and private spaces.