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Author Weatherall, Ruth

Title Reimagining Academic Activism Learning From Feminist Anti-Violence Activists
Published Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM Bristol University Press 2021

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Description 1 online resource (204) : ill
Series Organizations and activism
Contents Front Cover -- Series page -- Reimagining Academic Activism: Learning from Feminist Anti-Violence Activists -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Part I The Academic/Activist -- 1 Setting Out -- Setting out -- Settling in -- 2 Unsettling the In/Out -- (Re)settling in and out -- Into the field(s) -- Into the feminist anti-violence movement -- Seeking new directions -- Part II Ties That Bind -- Ties That Break -- 3 Outside of Ourselves -- A familiar tale of the community sector -- History and contribution: community spirit
Colliding with the market: the impacts of neoliberalism -- Dissolving community spirit and voice? -- The familiar tale: the only frame? -- Alternative understandings -- alternative organizations -- On emotion and organizing -- Alternative organizing, emotion, and the community sector -- 4 Passionate, Sad, Angry People -- Ties that bind: emotional attachments -- Ties that break: being beside oneself -- Redrawing the boundaries: emotion, activism, and academia -- Part III Vulnerable Bodies -- 5 Gendered Bodies -- The body, identity, and violence -- In the lunchroom: the body and gender identity
6 LGBT+ Bodies -- 7 Radically Unsettled Bodies -- Vulnerability, academia, and anti-violence activism -- Part IV A Story Like Mine -- 8 An Account of Ourselves -- Activist identities in organizations -- A micro-political approach to activist identity in the community context -- Giving an account of feminist activist identities -- Jen -- Tia -- Kimberley -- Ava -- Evelyn -- Emily -- 9 Through Difference -- At the intersection of self and organized activism: competing claims for legitimacy -- Feminist activism within the collective
Weaving together the personal and political: giving an account of the feminist activist -- The micro-politics of academia, activism, and storytelling -- Conclusion: Our Words Must Spill -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary Based on deep ethnographic research, this book explores new practices and ideas about activism in the fight against social inequality. The book is both about feminist activists and is an act of feminist activism, with the author's experiences as a volunteer ethnographer in New Zealand sitting at its heart
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Feminism.
Women -- Political activity.
Social change.
Feminism
feminism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
Mujeres en la política
Feminismo
Women in politics
Feminism
Social change
Women -- Political activity
Genre/Form Libros electrónicos
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781529210217
1529210216
9781529210224
1529210224