The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women – in particular working-class women – to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women – working class, peasant and indigenous –challenge hegemonic neoliberal feminism through their resistance to ordinary capitalist practices and ecological extractivism. Contributors cover women’s responses in a wide range of contexts: from women leading the defence of Rojava – the Kurdish region of Syria, to approaches to anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, to championing climate justice in mining affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. Their practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered in this collection is a subaltern women’s grassroots resistance focused on advancing and enabling solidarity-based political projects, deepening democracy, building capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.
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Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction – Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse PART I: Indigenous Emancipatory Feminism and Transformative Resistance Chapter 1 Extractivism and Crises: Rooting Development Alternatives in Emancipatory African Socialist Eco-feminism – Samantha Hargreaves Chapter 2 Jineology and the Pandemic: Rojava’s Alternative Anti-Capitalist-Statist Model – Hawzhin Azeez PART II: Ecology and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 3 Doing ecofeminism in a time of Covid-19: Beyond the limits of liberal feminism – Inge Konik Chapter 4 ‘Our Existence is Resistance’: Women Challenging Mining and the Climate Crisis in a time of Covid-19 – Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn Cock Chapter 5 Women and Food Sovereignty: Tackling Hunger during Covid-19 – Courtney Morgan and Jane Cherry PART III: Economic Transformation, Public Services and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 6 Quiet Rebels: Underground Women Miners and Refusal as Resistance – Asanda Benya Chapter 7 Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa – Jane Mbithi-Dikgole Chapter 8 Government’s Covid-19 Fiscal Responses and the Crisis of Social Reproduction – Sonia Phalatse and Busi Sibeko Chapter 9 Nursing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction – Before and During Covid-19 – Christine Bischoff PART IV: Where to for Emancipatory Feminism? Chapter 10 Crises, Socio-Ecological Reproduction and Intersectionality: Challenges for Emancipatory Feminism – Vishwas Satgar Conclusion: Ruth Ntlokotse and Vishwas Satgar Contributors Index
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Dineo Skosana is a doctoral student in politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her scholarly interests span indigenous politics, governance, policy, culture and heritage, and land claims.
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