Acts of resistance: the performance of women's grassroots protest in Peru

Moser, A. M.

doi:10.1080/1474283032000139760

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“…According to authors, minority members are active participants in these groups, and women generally have a leading role in these movements that sought cleanup of contaminated dump sites, blocked proposed facilities, and developed support for a preventive approach to environmental contamination. Grassroots participation is in itself seen as an empowering process (Asthana 1996) and a new hope for social change (Moser 2003). According to Jenkins (2008), grassroots women have to some extent become experts, after many years of voluntary activism at the community levelbut this "professionalization" at the same time contests, and is a product of, neoliberal development imperatives.…”

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Grassroots Women and Sustainable Development

Gonçalves¹,

Castro²,

Guerra³

2019

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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The empowerment of women; Woman in social movements; Women in community action Definition Grassroots women is a term used for women living in poor rural or urban communities, characterized as a part of a group susceptible to risks and vulnerabilities because of their economic, social, and political marginalization. These women, aware of the reality and needs of their community, develop strategies and mobilize themselves to reverse their vulnerability, improve their family members' quality of life, and gain more space in the decision-making processes that affect their lives (GROOTS International 2011). Grassroots women are strongly related to sustainable development since their practices to ensure the well-being and development of the local level are shown in agreement with the global Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 5 that aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (Huairou Commission 2016a).

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Section: Why Are Grassroots Women Important?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Grassroots Women and Sustainable Development

Gonçalves¹,

Castro²,

Guerra³

2019

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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“…Rubin (1994) describes how the COCEI of Mexico employed strategies of political theatre, building on already present oral histories in a culture which had made theatricality part of resistance. Moser (2003) has detailed how in Peru, programmes of street theatre gave the women who took part in them access to 'the potency of speaking in the public sphere, the power of carnivalesque reversals and inversions, the 'positive' form of protest and dissent as well as its potential as a space for bearing witness to state manipulation and corruption ' (2003: 178). And just as the MST celebrates certain dates ritualistically nationwide, Barmeyer (2003: 127) describes how the EZLN commemorate the January 1994 uprising and the village heroes who died in the ensuing battle of Ocosingo.…”

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“…In employing the term 'cultural politics', I take my lead from Alvarez et al (1998) and their argument that through collective actors mobilising around shared identities, social movements have enjoyed and will continue to enjoy substantial success in bringing about political and cultural change. Dagnino, Alvarez and Escobar define cultural politics as 'the use of public spaces and 'social movement networks or webs' to articulate experiences of social inequality as legitimate fields of artistic expression and political change' (Pardue, 2011: 104) and the Zapatista movement in Chiapas (Barmeyer, 2003;Kampwirth, 1996), the Mothers of the Disappeared in Buenos Aires (Borland, 2008), and the movement to oust President Fujimori in Peru (Moser, 2003), have all engaged in cultural politics in this sense. More recently, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy movements in London and New York have also featured politicised and locally resonant forms of artistic expression being employed in public spaces to realise change, and the impact of these instances of protest, carefully articulated through differing forms of artistic production (be they masks, flowers and guns, or quasi-religious Christian harvest rituals) has been felt on a wide range of issues.…”

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Mística, myself and I: Beyond cultural politics in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement

Flynn

2013

Critique of Anthropology

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How do grassroots social movements respond to shifting perceptions within their bases on key issues? This article centres its analysis on the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST -Landless Rural Workers' Movement) and instances of the movement's cultural activity, in particular, mística. It is recognised that the MST's cultural activity reflects a deep engagement with cultural politics, and further, that the movement's culture sector contributes directly to the delineation and formation of the 'landless' identity. However, from an ethnographic perspective and privileging the experiences of the members of the movement, this article goes beyond cultural politics to suggest that shifting notions of individualism, in the context of the movement's cultural activity, are having an impact on MST artistic expression and members' daily lives. The article argues that from within the bases of the movement, there has been a shift from what can be termed a receptive individualism, where members internalise cultural activity, to an expressive individualism, where members actively seek to shape the movement's cultural programmes. Members speak of a lack of visceral energy that the culture sector's activities used to possess, which provides the impetus for the article's concluding remarks on how social movements respond to transformation more widely. AberturaSanta Catarina, the south of Brazil. We wake up at six am to a breakfast of freshly baked bread, homemade jam and hot instant coffee, but shortly breakfast is over,

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“…Since the1950s, a variety of forms of popular culture have been effectively incorporated into protest movements in order to attract attention and increase visibility, enhance collective identity and influence public opinion. These include music, film and video, street drama, literature and the visual arts such as paintings, murals and graffiti (Eyerman and Jamison, 1998; Moser, 2003; Reed, 2005). In parallel, literature on popular culture engagement in protest has blossomed, nourished in part by Bakhtin’s carnivalesque , which is essential to an understanding of the relationship between protest and play in general, and video games in particular.…”

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We beat the cops in GTA: Po(ludic)al activism in the age of video games

Demirbag-Kaplan

Kaplan-Oz

2017

Convergence

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This article explores how individuals reflect on their digital experiences of actualizing fantasies to make sense of their everyday actions, particularly in the context of video gaming. Our study takes a qualitative approach to understanding the context of materializing consumer fantasies, as initially experienced and actualized in video games, and how these fantasies are transformed into material reality, through an investigation of an illustrative case of mass street protests, the 2013 Gezi Protests in Turkey. The findings suggest that digital virtual experiences in video games have obvious manifestations in the material world, as consumers travel on the borders of reality, moving back and forth into the liminoid terrain of the digital virtual, and provide a deeper understanding of how the blurred boundaries between the virtual and material are established in practice.

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Acts of resistance: the performance of women's grassroots protest in Peru

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Grassroots Women and Sustainable Development

Grassroots Women and Sustainable Development

Mística, myself and I: Beyond cultural politics in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement

We beat the cops in GTA: Po(ludic)al activism in the age of video games

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