Gender and ethnicity in the Soviet Muslim peripheries: a feminist postcolonial geography of women’s work in the Tajik SSR (1950–1991)

Behzadi, Negar Elodie; Direnberger, Lucia

doi:10.1080/02634937.2019.1699777

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“…However, the rich literature debating the applicability of postcolonial theory in the post‐Soviet context (e.g. Behzadi and Direnberger 2020; Koplatadze 2019) highlights the need to consider such historical dynamics also in relation to the Soviet modernisation project and its glorification of motherhood and its specific interpretations in the Soviet Republics (e.g. Kamp 2006; Mies 1986:180–181; Peshkova 2013).…”

Section: Post‐soviet Social Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Kangas

Krivonos

Khidjobova³

et al. 2022

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In this article, we analyse the social reproduction of post‐Soviet migrant labour. Our inquiry builds on artwork by Olga Jitlina and Anna Tereshkina and by Mahpora Kiromova dealing with the effects of migration on family relations in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. We have braided the artwork with strands of social reproduction theory to examine the transnational household as a set of relationships that enables post‐Soviet and global capitalism to draw value out of unwaged work and to reproduce the differentiated (i.e. gendered and racialised) labour force. Our focus is on the tropes of family, weddings, love, and violence. The analysis of these tropes draws attention to the intersecting effects of globalised capitalism, local structures of value, the state, and patriarchy in post‐Soviet political economy. Through them we detail the fundamental co‐constitution of production and social reproduction, but also show that practices of social reproduction can be reservoirs of resistance and potential change.

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Section: Post‐soviet Social Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Kangas

Krivonos

Khidjobova³

et al. 2022

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“…Les corps des femmes sont une échelle centrale dans ces géographies féministes. Ils permettent de prendre au sérieux la coercition, la peur et la violence qui structurent les rapports de pouvoir entre différents groupes (Fluri 2009 ;Pain, Staeheli 2014 ;Dixon 2011Dixon , 2015Hyndman 2019) Les productions féministes, queers et postcoloniales en géographie ont grandement contribué à comprendre la manière dont les idéologies et expériences du travail produisaient des inégalités, des violences et des exclusions (Hanson, Pratt 1995 ;England, Lawson 2005 ;Lawson 1999 ;McDowell 1999 ;Oberhauser 2002 ;Wolkowitz 2006 ;Wright 2006 ;Behzadi, Direnberger 2020). L'une des contributions majeures des géographes féministes a été de mettre en lumière la division spatiale genrée du travail, qui constitue la base du système capitaliste et patriarcal (McDowell et al 1984).…”

Section: Penser Les Articulations Entre Rapports De Pouvoir Inégalité...unclassified

Inégalités sociospatiales et imbrications des rapports de pouvoir

Behzadi¹,

Direnberger²

2022

Les Inégalités Dans L’espace Géographique

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Ce chapitre s’appuie sur les analyses féministes, queer et postcoloniales, renouvelées par les théories de l’intersectionnalité, pour analyser les inégalités socio-spatiales. À partir principalement du contexte postcolonial français, il montre comment les inégalités socio-spatiales structurent le travail et la construction nationale. L’espace est aussi saisi comme un enjeu crucial pour analyser l’agency, i.e. la capacité d'agir, des minoritaires.

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“…Since the gendered division of productive and reproductive labour was not challenged by the Soviet state, and motherhood was constructed as a socialist duty, women carried a double burden of paid and unpaid work, while men were ideologically exempt from domestic responsibilities (Ashwin, 2000). Soviet rhetoric reproduced the distinction between different kinds of Soviet women along ethnic/racial lines, contrasting ‘backward’ Muslim Central Asian women with ‘progressive’ Russian/Slavic women (Behzadi and Direnberger, 2020). Thus, the Soviet gender modernisation project both empowered women (through education, work and political representation) and reconstructed neotraditional, colonial gender relations.…”

Section: Russia In the Context Of Global Colonialitymentioning

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Coloniality of Gender and Knowledge: Rethinking Russian Masculinities in Light of Postcolonial and Decolonial Critiques

Yusupova

2022

Sociology

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This article explores how the legacy of European colonialism and its role in transforming gender relations globally, shapes post-Soviet Russian masculinities. It points to historical connections between European and Russian/Soviet colonial projects, both of which relied on the notion of ‘progress’ in gender relations. Drawing on analysis of biographical interviews with a diverse sample of Russian men interviewed in Russia and the UK, this work identifies how the research participants use the core modern/colonial narratives to establish their individual masculinities. Shifting from a common conceptualisation of Russian masculinities as ‘traditional’, ‘conservative’ and ‘macho’, I show that they are instead, closely bound up with the European project of modernity/coloniality. The study advances the analysis of postcolonial masculinities and posits an agenda for decolonisation of sociological research on global masculinities.

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Gender and ethnicity in the Soviet Muslim peripheries: a feminist postcolonial geography of women’s work in the Tajik SSR (1950–1991)

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Inégalités sociospatiales et imbrications des rapports de pouvoir

Coloniality of Gender and Knowledge: Rethinking Russian Masculinities in Light of Postcolonial and Decolonial Critiques

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