Iris Marion Young. Social Responsibility and Solidarity

Abstract

ResumenEste artículo propone suplementar el modelo de Young de la responsabilidad como conexión social con la propuesta de la justicia como solidaridad. No se apela a una solidaridad meramente cosmopolita y abstracta, sino a una identificada con redes de ayuda y cooperación transnacionales que han surgido frente a las agresiones de la globalización neoliberal a los más empobrecidos, especialmente a las mujeres de clase humilde que afrontan los retos de la feminización de la pobreza y de la supervivencia. Se atiende a la interseccionalidad de las opresiones para dar base a la solidaridad feminista. Y, finalmente, se propone a la economía solidaria emergente -especialmente nos brinda ejemplos de Latinoamérica y de lazos políticos con iniciativas estadounidenses ligadas al comercio justo y a la colaboración transnacional-como fundamentos de la solidaridad global. Palabras clave: Iris Marion Young; responsabilidad; justicia; solidaridad; interseccionalidad; economía solidaria. Abstract. Iris Marion Young. Social Responsibility and SolidarityThis article aims at supplementing Young's model of responsibility as social linkage with that of Justice as Solidarity. We move beyond a discussion of solidarity as a mere cosmopolitan and abstract concept. Solidarity applies somehow to a number of assistance networks and transnational cooperation that have emerged to confront neoliberal, globalised aggressions to the poor, mostly to poor women challenging the feminization of poverty and survival. We resort to the the so-called Oppressions' Intersectionality to contextualize feminist Solidarity. Finally, we discuss the growing strength of Solidarity Economy to become the basis of global solidarity, specially after successful experiences in Latin America and various North-American initiatives concerning fair trade and transnational collaboration.

Reconceptualizing Work and Building Ruddick's Feminist Solidarity Transnationally

“…Ruddick, like Chandra Talpade Mohanty, employs a notion of solidarity that "foregrounds communities of people who have chosen to work and fight together" (Mohanty 2003, 7). But unlike Mohanty and similar accounts of solidarity in struggle, Ruddick identifies the struggle to work as the primary unifying theme, rather than the struggles to end tyranny, violence, and oppression (Harcourt 2014;Mohanty 2003;Scholz 2008;Weber 2006), which are further contrasted with accounts of solidarity as socially expansive empathy (Ferguson 2009;Gould 2007). In this sense, the framework for feminist solidarity and the potential for transnational feminist solidarity embraces a struggle to rather than the oppositional struggle against.…”