Gender Studies MA

David Graeber "The New Anarchists" in New Left Review.  2002. 61-73 Graeber asserts that the term 'anti-globalisation movement' does not actively represent the activists who are involved, saying that if "this is a movement against anything, it's against neoliberalism" p.62 " More and more, activists have been trying to draw attention to the fact that the neoliberal vision of ‘globalization’ is pretty much limited to the movement of capital and commodities, and actually increases barriers against the free flow of people, information and ideas" p.64-65 The scrambling of conventional protest - through refusing to give birth - "throws the forces of order", as Graeber calls it, making the state "desperate to bring things back to familiar territory" p.67 "these new tactics are perfectly in accord with the general anarchistic inspiration of the movement, which is less about seizing state power than about exposing, dele...

Bice Maiguashca (2011) Looking Beyond the Spectacle: Social Movement Theory, Feminist Anti-globalization Activism and the Praxis of Principled Pragmatism, Globalizations, 8:4, 535-549 " repertoires of action refer to deliberately chosen courses of action undertaken by disaffected people in order to either extract gains from their superiors" p.536 The Birthstrikers are deliberately choosing not to have children in order to extract a more immediate response from their government and superiors in regards to climate change. Their other target is the public and media who they need to support their movement in order to win the conflict. The Birthstrike is a conventional form of protest: it is police sanctioned, it is low risk, and it requires little effort. " As della Porta and Diani (2006, p. 181, emphasis added) confirm, ‘for the most part social movements use forms of action which can be described as disruptive , seeking to influence elites through a demonstratio...

Tamboukou, M. (2005) ‘Rethinking the political subject: narratives of parrhesiastic acts.’ International Journal of Critical Psychology 14 pp138-157. " I am using the methodological lenses of the Foucauldian genealogy, an analysis that enables the study of complex variations, contradictions, paradoxes and tensions in the modes by which women educators moulded their political persona through the telling and writing of their stories." p.138 Genealogy is used to show the variety of ways in which women's citizenship differs across geopolitical locations and timeframes. Reproduction and the need/desire to have children also changes according to where the individual is based politically, socially, financially and environmentally. For some it may be a choice based in protest, for others it may be a choice based in safety.  To act in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin ... to set something into motion (Arendt, 1998, p.177) The actio...

Engelman, Robert. More : Population, Nature, and What Women Want. Island Press, 2008. Fear of losing not just population, but “our” population, also underpins the angst many people express over the high levels of immigration that have changed the complexion of industrialized countries in recent decades. One of the cures offered for population aging or decline is simply to invite in more people from other countries. p. 4 Replacement theory - pg 13 There’s not enough water for those alive today in the Horn of Africa, not enough atmosphere for those alive on earth to use fossil fuels the way we do in the United States. In Afghanistan and more than a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa, ill health, hunger, and violence make youth as risky a phase of life today as it was in Charles Dickens’s London. Parents need to have more than three children per woman to replace themselves in such populations, since infants have only a two-thirds probability of making it to age thirty. p.17 Until...

Ekholm, Sara and Anna Olofsson. "Parenthood and Worrying About Climate Change: The Limitations of Previous Approaches" in Risk Analysis: An International Journal. 2016 Affect heuristic model - affect, feelings, intuition, and emotion operate independently of reason. p.306 The affect heuristic model takes the feelings prompted by risk to belong to the experiential system, which by nature is intuitive, subconscious, and quick, while risk assessments belong to the analytic or rational system. p.306 Research on the emotions has focused on differences and similarities between terms such as affect (unconscious instinct), feelings(individual experiences that have been labeled as joy, anxiety, sadness, and so on), and emotion (social expressions that are normally visible to others). p.306 Both emotions and risks are an expression of moral judgments based on norms and values rooted in a specific historical, cultural, social, and political context. p.306 Becoming a parent is,...