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“Woman is not a delicate flower”: The liberal feminists who are active in the new right
No full textThe growth of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) that brought economist Javier Milei to the presidency of the Argentine Republic is part of a process that involves, among other elements, the “cultural battle” against “gender ideology.” This article seeks to show the complex and multiform character adopted by the activism of liberal feminists who adhere to this political space. To this end, from an ethnographic perspective, the narratives of women who participate in different groups, such as Mujeres Liberales or Pibas Libertarias, are analyzed. Their stories express the convergence between the legacy of the “Ni una menos” [Not one less] movement against sexist violence and the support for the struggles for the legalization of safe and free abortion, and spaces that are inscribed within the “new right.” We conclude that the self-proclaimed “liberal feminism” is built from two strands: on the one hand, with “radical feminism” and “hegemonic feminism” that they link with progressivism, the arrival in the State, and the promotion of socio-state regulations, such as gender parity and quota laws; on the other, with the most conservative positions within LLA, where these feminists are accused of being “leftist.
How epistemic frictions reconfigured the Quebecois contract archaeology normative structure
No full textCultural resource management (CRM), or contract archaeology—archaeological work conducted upstream to land development projects—has come under criticism for enacting neoliberal and colonial agendas. While this criticism is sound, it is also “negative,” in that it entertains an alienating narrative by eschewing resistance attempts by CRM archaeologists. I draw on my own work as an organizer amongst Quebecois CRM workers, as well as on the process of epistemic frictions as the dissenting development of shared truths, to flesh out a “positive” criticism of the practice. Through three frictions that unfolded from 2017 to 2020, I show how CRM workers organized around the collective construction of their knowledge to define the constraints posed by their practice’s hierarchical class structure and reconfigure it through the definition of new norms. These frictions map what epistemic work will be needed to enact anticapitalist and decolonial change
