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Gender and Struggles for Equality in Mining Resistance Movements: Performing Critique against Neoliberal Capitalism in Sweden and Greece

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Landén, Angelika Sjöstedt
Fotaki, Marianna

Abstract

This article explores the intersections of gender and centre–periphery relations and calls for theoretical and political involvement in gendered struggles against colonial and capitalist forces across different national contexts. The article raises questions about the possibility of resisting inequa... view more

This article explores the intersections of gender and centre–periphery relations and calls for theoretical and political involvement in gendered struggles against colonial and capitalist forces across different national contexts. The article raises questions about the possibility of resisting inequality and exploitation arising from capitalist expansion and extraction of natural resources in Sweden and Greece, outside of urban contexts. It does so by highlighting women’s role in protest movements in peripheral places and questioning power relations between centre and periphery. The article also argues that making visible women’s struggles and contributions to protest movements brings about vital knowledge for realizing democratic worlds that do not thrive on the destruction of natural resources and the institutionalization of inequalities.... view less

Keywords
Greece; Sweden; neoliberalism; capitalism; inequality; protest; gender-specific factors; center-periphery; rural area; mining; protest movement; woman; involvement

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies

Free Keywords
activism; extractivism

Document language
English

Publication Year
2018

Page/Pages
p. 25-35

Journal
Social Inclusion, 6 (2018) 4

Issue topic
Gender Equality and Beyond: At the Crossroads of Neoliberalism, Anti-Gender Movements, "European" Values, and Normative Reiterations in the Nordic Model

ISSN
2183-2803

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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