Before Bandung: The Anti-Imperialist Women’s Movement in Asia and the Women’s International Democratic Federation

Armstrong, Elisabeth

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“…Given the shared colonial context from which the nations of India, Pakistan, and later Bangladesh emerged, Gandhi (2006) has demonstrated the existence of a history of affective and political ties in the anti-colonial struggles of the late 19th and early and mid-20th centuries. Solidarities were also forged in the leftist, anti-imperial feminisms in the 1930s and 1940s and later via the Non-Aligned movement beginning in 1955 (Armstrong, 2016).…”

Section: South Asian Network For Gender Transformation (Sangat)mentioning

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Troubling the Southern turn in feminisms

Desai

2020

European Journal of Women's Studies

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In this article, I focus on the work of the South Asian Network for Gender Transformation (SANGAT) to show how it goes beyond the current turn to the Global South in much contemporary transnational feminisms. It does so in two ways. One, as evident in the name, it defines a regional imaginary, which is place-based and informed by the long history of interactions in the area beyond the colonial, postcolonial, and recent global forces, as well as in conversation with discourses and practices from the North. Second, its praxis connects activists across borders in a process of mutual learning that acknowledges power inequalities and draws upon local as well as transnational feminist theories and methodologies to enable sustainable collaborations for social and gender justice in the region. Thus, rather than reproducing the North/South binaries with its attendant erasures SANGAT seeks to go beyond them to develop place-based yet connected ‘solidarities of epistemologies’ and praxis.

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Section: South Asian Network For Gender Transformation (Sangat)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Troubling the Southern turn in feminisms

Desai

2020

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…55 And as Elisabeth Armstrong reminds us, such anti-imperialist women's networks matured in the late 1940s and 1950s into a politically diverse landscape that included the 1949 Conference on the Women of Asia (Beijing), the 1958 Asian-African Conference of Women (Colombo), and the 1961 Afro-Asian Women's Conference (Cairo). 56 It is likely that the participation of Pak Chong-ae (Pak Den-Ai) as leader of the North Korean delegation was a result of such connections. 57 The Beijing conference had been convened by the Women's International Democratic Federation, of which Pak Chong-ae had been an Executive Committee member since 1948.…”

Section: From Delhi To Bandungmentioning

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"The People's Bandung": Local Anti-imperialists on an Afro-Asian Stage

Stolte¹

2019

Journal of World History

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“…2. Other examples include Leftist feminists from anticolonial movements met in solidarity in 1949 at the Conference of Women of Asia held by the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) (Armstrong, 2016). 3.…”

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Postsocialist politics and the ends of revolution

Atanasoski

Vora

2017

Social Identities

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The introduction to this special issue offers a theorization of postsocialism as an analytic that connects the 'afters' of the capitalist-socialist dynamic to think about how political action need not take shape in ways that are familiar as revolutionary, or oppositional. We argue that postsocialism marks a queer temporality, one that does not reproduce its social order even as its revolutionary antithesis. Resisting the revolutionary teleology of what was before, postsocialism creates space to work through ongoing legacies of socialisms in the present. Secondly, we assert the need for pluralizing postsocialisms as a method, which brings to the fore current practices, imaginaries, and actions that insist on political change at a variety of scales, including local, state, and transnational ones. Pluralizing postsocialisms as a method and considering it necessary for analysis of a global postsocialist condition can provide a crucial analytic through which to assess ongoing socialist legacies in new ethical collectivities and networks of dissent opposing state-and corporate-based military, economic, and cultural expansionism since the end of the Cold War.

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Before Bandung: The Anti-Imperialist Women’s Movement in Asia and the Women’s International Democratic Federation

Abstract: Asia and the Women's International Democratic Federation O rganized by different constellations of international solidarity organizations, three conferences heralded the rise of women's internation

Cited by 46 publications

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Troubling the Southern turn in feminisms

Troubling the Southern turn in feminisms

"The People's Bandung": Local Anti-imperialists on an Afro-Asian Stage

Postsocialist politics and the ends of revolution

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