Amid a surge of “land grabbing” in Cambodia, women from across the country have led and sustained public protests to reclaim their lands. In this article, Saba Joshi studies the routines and performances of poor women’s collective action against the state and outlines four distinct types of “repertoires of contention” used by women in their protests: strategic positioning, anti-politics, self-sacrifice, and solidarity.
Read MoreMaree Pardy and Kalissa Alexeyeff reflect on how development and humanitarian representations of Haitian sex workers, and sex work in general, as expressed in Oxfam’s responses to the scandal, exposed the sector’s colonial and racialized approaches to gender, sexuality, and sex work.
Read MoreAmanda Heffernan explores necropolitical theory, Latin American feminist scholarship, and the U.S. reproductive justice movement to argue that the reproductive oppression of pregnant migrants by U.S. immigration authorities is gendered necropolitics at work.
Read MoreFocusing on the political endeavors of sex worker rights organizations in Canada and the United States (US) to end forms of oppression caused by the criminalization of the sexual service industry, Genevieve Fuji Johnson and Kerry Porth develop an approach to solidaristic normative theory.
Read MoreWestern interventions in the Middle East are often legitimized by appeals to women's rights. How did this occur in Syria with the 2014 Operation Inherent Resolve? Eda Gunaydin discusses the gap between Western versus self-representations of the YPJ.
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