Spaces of Appearance and the Right to Appear: March 8 in Local Bodily Assemblies

Selin Çağatay*, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich

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    Abstract (may include machine translation)

    Aiming to deepen our understandings of corporeal and embodied dimensions of transnational feminist and LGBTI + activism, this chapter is driven by the question: Why does the body still remain an important instrument of queer and feminist struggles in the era of digital solidarities? Following the International Women’s Day in diverse locales in Sweden, Turkey, and Russia, the ethnographic analyzes in this chapter bring forth the significance of embodied forms of resistance for the (re)making of space and explore how resistance flows across various scales. Engaging with the ambiguities of embodied resistance, this chapter visualizes the potential of corporeal modes of resistance to shift from the individual to the collective, showing that attention to multiple scales of resistance can provide more fine-grained understandings of the possibilities and constraints within which feminist and LGBTI+ struggles are located.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThinking Gender in Transnational Times
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
    Pages191-237
    Number of pages47
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2022

    Publication series

    NameThinking Gender in Transnational Times
    ISSN (Print)2947-4361
    ISSN (Electronic)2947-437X

    Keywords

    • Collective
    • Corporeality
    • Embodiment
    • Feminism
    • Individual
    • LGBTI+
    • Resistance
    • Space
    • Visibility/invisibility

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