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In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened
material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the
social and political landscape. "Borders"--defined broadly to
include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural
boundaries--have become increasingly salient sites of struggle over
social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do
contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What
meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and
political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the
strategies in which they engage? Moreover, how do these social
movements confront internal borders based on the differences that
emerge within social change initiatives? Border Politics, edited by
Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez, explores these
important questions through eleven carefully selected case studies
situated in geographic contexts around the globe. By
conceptualizing struggles over identity, social belonging and
exclusion as extensions of border politics, the authors capture the
complex ways in which geographic, cultural, and symbolic dividing
lines are blurred and transcended, but also fortified and redrawn.
This volume notably places right-wing and social justice
initiatives in the same analytical frame to identify patterns that
span the political spectrum. Border Politics offers a lens through
which to understand borders as sites of diverse struggles, as well
as the strategies and practices used by diverse social movements in
today's globally interconnected world. Contributors: Phillip Ayoub,
Renata Blumberg, Yvonne Braun, Moon Charania, Michael Dreiling,
Jennifer Johnson, Jesse Klein, Andrej Kurnik, Sarah Maddison,
Duncan McDuie-Ra, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Nancy A. Naples, David
Paternotte, Maple Razsa, Raphi Rechitsky, Kyle Rogers, Deana
Rohlinger, Cristina Sanidad, Meera Sehgal, Tara Stamm, Michelle
Tellez
In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened
material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the
social and political landscape. "Borders"--defined broadly to
include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural
boundaries--have become increasingly salient sites of struggle over
social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do
contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What
meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and
political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the
strategies in which they engage? Moreover, how do these social
movements confront internal borders based on the differences that
emerge within social change initiatives? Border Politics, edited by
Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez, explores these
important questions through eleven carefully selected case studies
situated in geographic contexts around the globe. By
conceptualizing struggles over identity, social belonging and
exclusion as extensions of border politics, the authors capture the
complex ways in which geographic, cultural, and symbolic dividing
lines are blurred and transcended, but also fortified and redrawn.
This volume notably places right-wing and social justice
initiatives in the same analytical frame to identify patterns that
span the political spectrum. Border Politics offers a lens through
which to understand borders as sites of diverse struggles, as well
as the strategies and practices used by diverse social movements in
today's globally interconnected world. Contributors: Phillip Ayoub,
Renata Blumberg, Yvonne Braun, Moon Charania, Michael Dreiling,
Jennifer Johnson, Jesse Klein, Andrej Kurnik, Sarah Maddison,
Duncan McDuie-Ra, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Nancy A. Naples, David
Paternotte, Maple Razsa, Raphi Rechitsky, Kyle Rogers, Deana
Rohlinger, Cristina Sanidad, Meera Sehgal, Tara Stamm, Michelle
Tellez
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to
the study of globalization, labor, and women's movements. Jennifer
Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the
Nicaraguan Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, "Maria Elena
Cuadra" (mec), which emerged as an autonomous organization in 1994.
Most of its efforts revolve around organizing women workers in
Nicaragua's free trade zones and working to improve conditions in
maquiladora factories. Mendez examines the structural and cultural
elements of mec in order to demonstrate how globalization affects
grassroots advocacy for social and economic justice. She argues
that globalization has created opportunities for new forms of
organizing among those local populations that suffer its effects
and that mec, which has forged vital links with transnational
feminist and labor groups, exemplifies the possibilities-and
pitfalls-of this new type of organizing.Mendez draws on interviews
with leaders and program participants, including maquiladora
workers; her participant observation while she worked as a
volunteer within the organization; and analysis of the public
statements, speeches, and texts written by mec members. She
provides a sense of the day-to-day operations of the group as well
as its strategies. By exploring the tension between mec and
transnational feminist, labor, and solidarity networks, she
illustrates how mec women's outlooks are shaped by both their
revolutionary roots within the Sandinista regime and their exposure
to global discourses of human rights and citizenship. The
complexities of the women's labor movement analyzed in From the
Revolution to the Maquiladoras speak to social and economic justice
movements in the many locales around the world.
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