Decolonising Labour, Reclaiming Subaltern Epistemologies: Brazilian Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labour Rights

Acciari, Louisa

doi:10.1590/s0102-8529.2019410100003

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“…Vd. Acciari (2018) and Getirana (2018 (Caldwell 2007). However, Gonzalez (1982) and other Afro-Brazilian feminists did not always find a place for themselves in the Black Movement, criticizing the sexism they encountered in it, as well as the racism they encountered in the Brazilian women's movement.…”

Section: Tarefa I (1982)mentioning

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O disciplinar e o doméstico: Imagens domésticas nos vídeo-performances de Letícia Parente, 1975–1982

Sneed¹

2020

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This essay focuses on works of video art from the 1970s and early 1980s by Letícia Parente (1930–1991), a first-generation video art pioneer in Brazil, whose video performances associated household imagery, domestic spaces, and quotidian chores and objects with violence, repression, and incarceration during the period the Brazilian dicatorship (1964–1985). Parente worked in video performance, an approach to performance art in which she performed for the video camera, rather than for a live audience. I argue that in her video performances, Parente performs domestic and quotidian actions in ways that enact self-harm and confinement in order to marshal a response to gender oppression in women’s daily lives that paralleled the violence and imprisonment Brazilians experienced under the dictatorship. By enacting disciplinary “punishments” (or the threat of such punishments) on herself, cloaked as daily domestic tasks, her works demonstrate the ways that the same forces that structure public disciplinary society also configure the private spaces of the home. I propose that she positions domestic space as a zone of containment and imprisonment, and that her resistance occurs not in the space itself but through the absurdity and ironic bathos of their bodily performances, as well as her actual or implied self-harm and violence, themes I address by engaging Kathy O’Dell’s theorization of “masochistic performance art,” and Hal Foster’s concept of “mimetic adaptation.”

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Section: Tarefa I (1982)mentioning

confidence: 99%

O disciplinar e o doméstico: Imagens domésticas nos vídeo-performances de Letícia Parente, 1975–1982

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2020

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“…Mobilization around C189 has been considered a paradigmatic example of the scaling up of local and national movements and the formation of the IDWF as transnational collective actor: for instance, studies have described the key role played by the International Domestic Workers' Network and by some regional and national organizations in the drafting of the convention in Geneva in 2011 (Acciari, 2019;Fish, 2017;Schwenken, 2016). Louisa Acciari (2019) suggests that this process is an example of the ability of 'subaltern groups' from the Global South to generalize their demands and produce new rights.…”

Section: Global Rights and Local Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marchetti

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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Transnational migration gives rise to multiple forms of potential exploitation of paid domestic work, being an occupation that is relegated to the informal labour market where migrant women often find themselves in powerless positions in relation to their employers and host society. This is especially so when they are undocumented migrants, as is the case for migrants who do not fulfil the requirements for labour or family migration. As a consequence, in many countries, migrants’ employment in private households is strongly deregulated and workers do not have access to social and labour protection (Triandafyllidou & Marchetti, 2017). In several countries, domestic work is not recognized as work, and is therefore excluded from labour protections. Domestic workers are often deprived of monetary payment and compensated with only food and shelter. Also, in countries where domestic work is regulated through labour laws, provisions differ significantly from those in place for other jobs, having lower remuneration and fewer social protections. This lack of a normative framework adds to the vulnerability that is typical of the sector due to the isolation that is characteristic of this kind of work (especially for live-in workers) and the social stigmatization that they face in different parts of the world.

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“…These studies have amply documented the difficulties faced by domestic workers in achieving representation in various interests group such as labour unions, migrant and women's organizations (Blofield, 2012;Ferree and Roth, 1998). They also demonstrate that the isolation of these workers has often acted as an obstacle to the extension of employment and social protection to this workforce (Acciari, 2019;Hellgren, 2015;van Hooren, 2017).…”

Section: Building Intersectional Solidarity Around Controversial Issuesmentioning

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Unpacking intersectional solidarity: dimensions of power in coalitions

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Roggeband

2021

European Journal of Politics and Gender

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Scholars have often oscillated between celebrating the transformative potential of solidarity and recognising the ambivalent nature of cooperation for disadvantaged and marginalised groups. How can we make sense of these differences? This article addresses this question by unpacking intersectional solidarity along two dimensions: the ways issues are framed; and the extent to which organisations adopt a transformative praxis to redress disparities in resources and representation. By focusing on the interplay between discursive and material dimensions of power, we identify four types of intersectional solidarity, with different transformative potential. The usefulness of this typology is illustrated by means of secondary analysis of coalition work developed around reproductive justice and domestic workers’ rights. It shows that only an ideal form of transformative solidarity reflects feminist normative theorising of an alliance across differences. Key messages <ul><li>Feminist alliances that do not alter power disparities lead to the marginalisation of minority issues and the co-optation of less powerful organisations.</li> <li>Intersectional solidarity requires a durable commitment to the eradication of all forms of power asymmetries within a coalition so as to transform it into a collaboration among equals.</li> <li>Our typology overcomes the opposition between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ solidarity by showing that there are several intermediate forms, with different consequences for the nature, outcomes and longevity of cooperation.</li> <li>Advanced forms of solidarity require strategies that transform the framing of issues, the way resources are shared and the forms of deliberation and representation.</li> <li>Transformative solidarity reflects normative theorising about the good life and highlights the importance of a deep and sustained engagement with the ‘other’.</li></ul>

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Decolonising Labour, Reclaiming Subaltern Epistemologies: Brazilian Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labour Rights

Cited by 28 publications

References 49 publications

O disciplinar e o doméstico: Imagens domésticas nos vídeo-performances de Letícia Parente, 1975–1982

O disciplinar e o doméstico: Imagens domésticas nos vídeo-performances de Letícia Parente, 1975–1982

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