idealized deliberative democracy. It will involve agonistic contestation between dominant and subordinate groups (125); and genuine democratic solidarity will be achieved only insofar as contestation over public memory in debates over minority group rights reveals ‘‘the existence of a state organized on the basis of both cultural difference and racial hierarchy’’ (171–72). Hooker offers provoca...

The term Global South originates in the social sciences, where it invokes notion of a global North-South divide to organize nations according socioeconomic and political status. In literary context, signifies an ongoing endeavor engage with current disposition by identifying its externalities providing framework which wide-ranging cross-regional resistance might be imagined. Drawing on this poi...

We write as the Survivors Justice Project (SJP), a legal/organizing/social work/research collective born in aftermath of 2019 passage New York State Domestic Violence Act (DVSJA), law that allows judges to re-sentence survivors domestic violence currently prison and grant shorter terms or program alternatives upon their initial sentencing. Our work braids litigation, social research, advocacy, ...

There has been a growing affective intensity on Farsi social media around Iranian women’s rights protests, particularly mobilizations against the compulsory hijab. This crystallized into variety of emotions: anger, joy, and defiance women protesting hijab inside country; outrage at injustice these actions communicate; anger anxiety critics both Right Left, among establishment ordinary people. Y...

This study takes its departure from literature on the far-reaching engagements civil society during 2015 “refugee crisis” in Europe as it seeks to understand status of collaborative governance at local level. It an in-depth look Malmö, a city Sweden which became centre for Swedish refugee reception and solidarity initiatives. The identifies challenges opportunities horizontal collaborations dev...

Abstract Under what conditions do populists embrace or reject “the international”? Some scholars of populism argue that populist leaders tend to neglect political (inter-)action in the international arena due their stated preference for isolationist, nationalistic, and protectionist stances. Meanwhile, others claim through promotion performative encounters transnational solidarities between “Pe...

In this article, young trans people share their experiences of exhaustion and exhausting temporalities. Drawing on participatory research with aged fourteen to twenty-five in London Scotland, I trace forces implicated the spatial bodily emergence fixity people’s lives sociomaterialities, embodied practices, architectures many everyday spaces, alongside societal hostilities, as a set that often ...

With almost every part of the Muslim world having suffered from European colonisation, roles and relations Islamicate movements in anti-colonial history cannot be ignored. And yet, despite intellectual overlaps, mutual opposition to British colonialism, a shared spiritual worldview, little has been written within postcolonial studies on historical relationship between Brotherhood Egypt Jamati I...

In activist circles, the concept of resilience seems to have captured spotlight once enjoyed by resistance. Instead treating as antithetical resistance, and a discursive neoliberal vehicle that seeks individual solutions collective problems, this article demonstrates its relationality resistance in context online/offline struggles feminist LGBTI + activists challenged mobilizations against gend...

This paper develops an account of intersectional feminist theory by critically examining the notion identity implicitly assumed in major critiques intersectionality. Critics take intersectionality to fragment women along lines categories such as race, class, and sexuality. Underlying this interpretation, I argue, is metaphysical assumption that a fixed entity. misunderstanding neglects how actu...