Power interrupted : antiracist and feminist activism inside the United Nations /
Author / Creator: | Falcón, Sylvanna M., author. |
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Imprint: | Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2016] ©2016 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Decolonizing feminisms Decolonizing feminisms. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11383450 |
Summary: | In Power Interrupted , Sylvanna M. Falcón redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Her analysis of UN antiracism spaces, in particular the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, considers how a race and gender intersectionality approach broadened opportunities for feminist organizing at the global level. The Durban conference gave feminist activists a pivotal opportunity to expand the debate about the ongoing challenges of global racism, which had largely privileged men's experiences with racial injustice. When including the activist engagements and experiential knowledge of these antiracist feminist communities, the political significance of human rights becomes evident. Using a combination of interviews, participant observation, and extensive archival data, Sylvanna M. Falcón situates contemporary antiracist feminist organizing from the Americas--specifically the activism of feminists of color from the United States and Canada, and feminists from Mexico and Peru--alongside a critical historical reading of the UN and its agenda against racism. |
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Item Description: | Material from chapter 2 was first published in Critical Sociology (2015): 1-12, DOI: 10.1177/0896920514565484, and is reprinted with permission from SAGE Publications. Material from chapter 2 first appeared in Societies without Borders 4, no. 3 (2009): 295-316, and is reprinted with permission from Brill Publishing. Material from chapter 4 first appeared in Journal of Women's History 24, no. 4 (2012): 99-120, and is reprinted with permission from Johns Hopkins University Press, copyright ©2012 |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 9780295806396 0295806397 9780295995250 0295995254 9780295995267 0295995262 |