Global Women’s Movements and Feminist Interventions to Alternative Globalisation Discourses

Abstract

This article aims to review the developing literature, which is rarely translated into Turkish, on feminist involvement in alternative globalisation movements. It also reflects the author’s personal analysis based on observations during participation to various social movement activism platforms in Europe. The article discusses the historical aspect of international women’s movement; origins of alternative globalisation movements; the obstacles that are faced by women’s movements during the attempts to actively take part in shaping the discourses of alternative globalisation as well as the resistance strategies developed by feminists to overcome these obstacles and; the oppression systems identified as the enemy by feminists. Following the literature review on these listed issues the article will focus on NextGENDERation Network as the case study of struggles to integrate feminist discourses to the alternative globalisation movements.

Küresel Kadın Hareketleri ve Alternatif Küreselleşme Söylemlerine Feminist Müdahaleler

Abstract

Bu makalenin amacı feminist söylemlerin kurelsellesme hareketleri kapsaminda ele alınışına yönelik gelişmekte olan ve Türkçe’ye çevirisi sınırlı olan literatürü tanıtmanın yanısıra Avrupa’da çeşitli platformlardaki sosyal hareketliliklere kişisel katılımım sırasındaki gözlemlerime dayalı analizlerin paylaşılmasıdır. Makalede değinilecek konular sırasıyla küresel boyutta kadın hareketlerinin tarihselliği; alternatif küresel hareketlerin çıkış noktası ve gelişme süreci; kadın/feminist hareketlerin alternatif küresel hareketlere katılımında karşılaşılan engeller; kadın hareketlerinin bu engeller karşısında geliştirdikleri direniş stratejileri; feminist aktivistlerin tanımladıkları ‘düşman baskı sistemleri.’ Bu konulardaki literatür analizini takiben de alternatif küreselleşme hareketlerine feminist söylemi dahil etme çabalarının bir örneği olarak NextGENDERation Ağı ve sadece bir kadın meselesi olmayı reddetme çabaları tartışılacaktır

Keywords

• NextGENDERation Ağı
• tarihsellik
• ‘düşman baskı sistemleri
• ' alternatif küresel hareketler

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