Wa(i)ving it All Away: Producing Subject and Knowledge in Feminisms of Colour

Chakraborty, Mridula Nath

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“…Gaytri Spivak (2012) offers strategic essentialism to describe how one philosophically rejects the idea that identities are stable and homogenous, but acts as though they are stable essences for political purposes. This approach allows social groups to unite around shared identifications and find solidarity within Otherness (Nath Chakraborty, 2004). Strategic essentialism requires its practitioners to balance between the philosophical fluidity and the practical fixity of identity (Prasad, 2012).…”

Section: Postcolonial Theorizing In Organization Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beneath the white gaze: Strategic self-Orientalism among Chinese Australians

Liu

2016

Human Relations

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This article analyses the ethno-cultural identities of Chinese Australian professionals through a postcolonial lens. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 21 participants, it explores how they engaged in self-Orientalism; casting themselves as exotic commodities for the benefit of white people and institutions. In particular, they enacted Chinese stereotypes through ‘mythtapping’ and ‘mythkeeping’ in order to secure recognition under the white gaze. As mythtappers, professionals presented themselves as custodians of an ancient and mysterious culture that offered organizational wisdoms for ‘the West.’ As mythkeepers, the professionals allayed white anxieties by surrendering themselves to white Australians as pathways into their communities. However, the professionals’ Orientalized identities are not passively determined, but are in some cases tactically and strategically resisted through ‘mythbusting.’ The article contributes to postcolonial theorizing by demonstrating how imperialist ideologies constrain the lives of people beyond the colonizer/colonized dichotomy and by illuminating the potential for their resistance against Orientalization.

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Section: Postcolonial Theorizing In Organization Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beneath the white gaze: Strategic self-Orientalism among Chinese Australians

Liu

2016

Human Relations

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“…Witt argues that this view can be compatible with the literature on intersectionality and gives the following example: ‘as Black feminists have noted, the issue of women in the workplace has an entirely different set of norms for Black women than it does for Caucasian women’ (Witt, 2011, p. 101). However, this argument is rather brief and it fails to engage with intersectionality’s criticism that there is a need ‘to account for lived experience at neglected points of intersection – ones that tended to reﬂect multiple subordinate locations as opposed to dominant or mixed locations’ (McCall, 2005, p. 1780), and more recent criticisms of what Mridula Nath Chakraborty calls ‘hegemonic feminism’ (Chakraborty, 2007). The notion of a ‘mega’ social role seems incompatible with the more nuanced accounts of intersectionality available.…”

Section: The Metaphysics Of Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Between the Waves: Currents in Contemporary Feminist Thought

Hague

2015

Political Studies Review

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With a continuing focus on liberal feminism, Marxist feminism and essentialism, one would be forgiven for thinking that feminist theory is unable to break free from the ‘second wave’. This is not the case. This article reviews three books which take on these feminist issues and offer new readings on the questions at the heart of feminism. Each provides clear links to feminism of the past but also connects to present debate and makes suggestions for future directions for feminism. There is plenty of literature which bemoans the end of feminism and some which triumphantly hails our era as post-feminist: no longer in need of feminist theory. Contrary to such claims, each book tackles the problem of women’s oppression from a different perspective, each presents different solutions and in so doing they demonstrate that feminism is alive and well. Abbey, R. (2011) The Return of Feminist Liberalism. Durham: Acumen. Weeks, K. (2011) The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Witt, C. (2011) The Metaphysics of Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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“…Spivak, 1987;Riley, 1988;Di Stefano, 1990;Braidotti, 1991Braidotti, , 1994Gatens, 1991;Butler, 1992;Stanley and Wise, 1993;Ramazanoğlu, 1995;Stanley, 1997;Smith 1997Smith , 1998. Feminists have been concerned with giving women a voice which includes being able to articulate women's experience in the first person in ways which include differences among women (hooks, 1984, Ramazanoğlu , 1989, Spivak 1987 and in the third wave Chakraborty, 2007or through intersectionality, Hill Collins, 1990[2000 and Taylor et al 2011)…”

Section: Ways Of Speakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being in the academy: a cross generational conversation

Woodward

2012

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal

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Being in the Academy: A cross generational conversationThis article builds upon the methodological and intellectual approach taken in our co-authored book Why Feminism Matters to explore some of the synergies and disconnections in the experience of being in the academy at different historical moments which range from the 1970s to the present. We use the interrelationship between different feminisms in the context of our lived experiences as a mother and daughter whose experience of the academy has crossed, in the language of waves that of second wave feminism into third wave. It also bridges the mainstreaming of women's studies in many universities, and claims of post feminism. By focusing upon trajectories of change both within the specificities of our own lived experience and the wider terrain of social change, albeit often marked more by continuities than transformation, we examine the particularities of life in higher education in the different roles than we have performed and which we each still have. There have been significant demographic, cultural and legislative shifts, for example within the culture and practice of equal opportunities, but our conversations demonstrate the endurance of imbalances of power and the continuing need for a feminist politics of difference which can engage with contemporary life in the academy with its intersecting axes of inequality.

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Wa(i)ving it All Away: Producing Subject and Knowledge in Feminisms of Colour

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Beneath the white gaze: Strategic self-Orientalism among Chinese Australians

Beneath the white gaze: Strategic self-Orientalism among Chinese Australians

Between the Waves: Currents in Contemporary Feminist Thought

Being in the academy: a cross generational conversation

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