“When they challenge the innocent morality of the rights regime, anthropologists join a number of political and legal theorists who have asked whether humanitarianism is the new face of colonialism. Some have pointed out the paradoxes of rights-based arguments: that they allow people to make claims, but lock them into fixed identities defined by their injuries rather than freeing them from these identities into a world of equals; or they absolve the perpetrators of past violence by making them the defenders of rights.”
― Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Dec 16, 2024
Feminist Political Economy
A Global Perspective
Sara Cantillon, Odile Mackett, and Sara Stevano
Hosted by Sarah Vogelsanger
#feminisms #politicaleconomy

@politicalscience

https://newbooksnetwork.com/feminist-political-economy

#feminisms !!! Iran, Balochistan, Aghanistan, Kurdistan https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/accent-of-women/id993578167?i=1000673074877

In 1910 in Copenhagen, the 2nd International Conference of Socialist Women adopted the idea of an "International Women's Day" from a proposal by Clara Zetkin (German Social Democratic Party), although no date was set.

The "Journal du CNRS" notes that "Women's Day was therefore the initiative of the socialist movement and not of the feminist movement, which was very active at the time". The historian Françoise Picq adds that "it was precisely to counteract the influence of feminist groups on the women of the people that Clara Zetkin proposed this day", rejecting "the alliance with the 'feminists of the bourgeoisie'": https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/journee-des-femmes-la-veritable-histoire-du-8-mars @histodons

"Since the defeat of ISIS, #Raqqa has been on a path of rebuilding and revitalisation as part of the defacto autonomous northeastern Syrian region known as #Rojava. The development of a democratic, egalitarian and multi-ethnic society, with an emphasis on women’s empowerment and ecological sustainability, is at the core of the self government."

You may join the event tomorrow at KinOLaden in #Oldenburg, #Niedersachsen, #Germany: https://medyanews.net/germanys-oldenburg-initiates-twinning-partnership-with-syrias-kurdish-led-raqqa/

"Since we have a common future,
let's make it a nice one."
~ Léonora #Miano: https://eldritch.cafe/@breton/111187499184752264

'My normative lesson is, “Heed Marginalized People.” Fundamentally and foundationally. And, like, don’t include them necessarily in your training data, but include them in the questions that you ask at the outset, and who you think to ask about what you ought to do.
[…]
So to ask that question, “Who have we not thought about; whose harms, whose needs, whose voice has been, perhaps speaking, but unheeded, for a very long time? And how do we ensure that the things that they have called out as potential sites of failure, don’t go unremarked, don’t go unaddressed.'
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, @Wolven https://afutureworththinkingabout.com/?p=5442 #ableism #algorithms #bias #biotech #ethics #disability #facialRecognition #feminisms #Google #homophobia #machineLearning #misogyny #neurodiversity #phenomenology #racism #science #neutrality #sexism #cognition #surveillance #dataDon @ethics @dataGovernance @data #historyOfScience

"Postwar European education campaigns coded #Europe as both white and raceless, Christian and secular."

Emily #Marker draws from her work on the French #education system to discuss #race and #universalism: https://tocqueville21.com/books/authors-response-black-france-white-europe-emily-marker/

#book #whiteness #coloniality #meritocracy #feminisms #decoloniality #antiRacism #FRPol #academy #university #integration #colorblindness #democratisation #Europeanness
#livre #racialisation #decoloniale #antiracisme #blanchité #racismeSystémique #colonialité #méritocratie #lectureDécoloniale #islamogauchisme #France #décolonisation