The last decade has witnessed the rise of a great number of
transnational social movements and activist networks. While many of
these movements have been initiated in the North, some are driven
by people from the Global South with the aim of addressing various
forms of destitution and asserting a variety of basic economic and
cultural rights. Such transnational organizing is increasingly
evident in Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of these initiatives relate
particularly to the growing numbers of people depending on forms of
informal work for survival. This edition of Current African Issues
looks into the transnationalization of a local association of
informal workers as it becomes involved in an international network
of grassroots organizations. While this transnational engagement
opens up new political possibilities, it also poses new challenges.
Participation in international activities is highly unequal and
mediated rather than direct, as influential actors engage in
practices of gate-keeping that tend to work to the disadvantage of
women. Tensions also emerged as a result of the divergent gender
ideologies espoused by different participants. The paper draws on
various theoretical perspectives on spatial politics in the global
age to interrogate the unequal and contested spatialities of this
transnational activism. Feminist scholarship sheds further light on
the gendering processes at work in the transnationalization of a
grassroots association.
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