Building feminist solidarities: the case study of Mujeres Creando
Vicente, Andresa Natacha Gomes de Almeida
The case study of Bolivian radical feminist group Mujeres Creando is aimed at
exploring both the micro and macropolitical challenges to and strategies for
building feminist solidarities within the broader context of globalised neoliberal
capitalism. The main research question orienting this study is: What would
feminist activism look like if it addressed both macro and micropolitical factors in
a way that led to the formation of anti-capitalist subjectivities and sustainable
environments? The anticipated outcome of this research project is the
achievement of a better understanding of how the feminist notion that the
personal is political is the basis for the formulation of alternative forms of theory
and praxis leading to emancipatory social change and the emergence of
egalitarian and sustainable democratic realities. Feminist insights on subjectivity
formation and coalition-building offer valuable conceptual material with the
potential for innovation from which to re-imagine and re-construct the social
realities of women and, by extension, of all members of society. The
methodological framework for this study is qualitative discourse analysis. The aim
of this research is not to impose predetermined concepts for testing, but rather to
provide a framework for an iterative process, comprising the dual movements of
exploration and interpretation, where theory and hypotheses are developed in the
course of the study in contribution to existing dialogues on the subject of feminist
solidarity building. As the type of data studied is not amenable to quantitative
analysis, a qualitative design is better suited to the subjective nature of the matter
and my need to access unquantifiable aspect about the members of Mujeres
Creando, such as the effects of discursive colonisation on the lives and struggles
of marginalised women, how they make sense of their socio-political context and
engage with dominant discursive practices on a daily basis. All the data for this
thesis was gathered exclusively by means of qualitative discourse analysis.
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