To explore the challenges to feminist and gender justice activism and to identify new energies in the field, Sohela Nazneen and Awino Okech have guest-edited the Gender & Development journal’s special double issue on Feminist protests and politics in a world of crisis. You can also watch the authors discuss their articles in an Institute of Development Studies’s webinar held in November 2021.
You can find the following articles in the special double issue:
- Introduction: feminist protests and politics in a world in crisis
Sohela Nazneen and Awino Okech - Nothing is as it seems: ‘discourse capture’ and backlash politics
Tessa Lewin - Femonationalism and anti-gender backlash: the instrumental use of gender equality in the nationalist discourse of the Fratelli d’Italia party
Daria Colella - Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala
Julia Hartviksen - Women organising in fragility and conflict: lessons from the #BringBackOurGirls movement, Nigeria
Martin Atela, Ayobami Ojebode, Racheal Makokha, Marion Otieno and Tade Aina - A new feminist ethic that unites and mobilizes people: the participation of young people in Argentina’s Green Wave
Gabriela Artazo, Agustina Ramia and Sofia Menoyo - #EndSARS movement in Nigeria: tensions and solidarities amongst protesters
Onyeka Antoinette Nwabunnia - Gendered social media communication around mining: patriarchy, diamonds, and seeking feminist solidarity online
Juliet Gudhlanga and Samuel J. Spiegel - Women and protest politics in Pakistan
Ayesha Khan, Asiya Jawed and Komal Qidwai - Visible outside, invisible inside: the power of patriarchy on female protest leaders in conflict and violence-affected settings
Jalila Haider and Miguel Loureiro - Fighting all demons: feminist voices on popular protests in Lebanon and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
Hadeel Qazzaz - ‘Nenhum passo atrás’ (Not a step back): Brazilian Black women’s resistance in the era of Bolsonaro’s far-right government
Bruna Pereira and Macarena Aguilar - The resistance strikes back: women’s protest strategies against backlash in India
Deepta Chopra - South–South symbolic transnationalism: echoing the performance ‘A Rapist in Your Path’ in Latin America
Ana López Ricoy - When a movement moves within a movement: Black women’s feminist activism within trade unions
madeleine kennedy-macfoy, Tamara Gausi and Chidi King - Unpacking Bangladesh’s ‘women’s leadership paradox’ through the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2010
Pragyna Mahpara - Protecting public health in adverse circumstances: subnational women leaders and feminist policymaking during COVID-19
Jennifer M. Piscopo and Malliga Och - Women’s movements under women presidents: bringing a gender perspective to the legal system
Ramona Vijeyarasa - Do women’s rights organisations need ‘femocrats’? The negotiation of the Peruvian–Spanish agreement for development co-operation 2013–2016
Susana Araujo - The story of the Doria Feminist Fund: de-colonising the funding narrative in the MENA region
Lina Abou-Habib, Mozn Hassan and Carla Akil - Chords of solidarity, notes of dissent: the role of feminist conferences in movement-building in India
Manjima Bhattacharjya