By Lynn Staeheli, Eleonore Kofman, Linda Peake
Mapping girls, Making Politics demonstrates the a number of ways that gender impacts political tactics and the politics of area. The booklet starts off by way of addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual demanding situations to standard political geography and than applies those views to a number settings and themes together with nationalism, migration, improvement, diplomacy, elections, social pursuits, governance and the surroundings within the international North and South.
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To ground this discussion, I focus the bulk of the chapter on a historically and geographically specific example: the debate over the institution of mut’a in Tanzania. Locating Difference “Politics of location”—a term first coined by Adrienne Rich in the early 1980s—is labeled by some “as a particularly North American feminist articulation of difference” that insists on interrogating and deconstructing the position, identity, and privilege of whiteness (Kaplan 1994, 139). S. women’s movement and in academic feminist discourses.
Three sets of processes at the local, national, and transnational scales enmeshed to configure Ithnasheri communal politics in Dar-es-Salaam: the socioeconomic changes taking place in postindependence Tanzania, the growth of global communal networks among the Ithnasheris, and the Iranian Revolution. These sociospatial processes intersected in complex ways to vastly increase the power of the Dar-es-Salaam Jamaat over the lives of local Ithnasheris and to invigorate the religious beliefs of the community, creating both an interest in mut’a among men and a feminist Islamic consciousness among women.
Both perspectives address questions of representation in trying to interpret who speaks for whom, and toward what end. One point of tension, however, circulates around identity as enacted through individuals versus social groups. With poststructuralism, one has the sense that the discussion focuses around the inherent instability of identities as they traverse individuals. In turn, this suggests an individual ability to play with identities—to assume, discard, or redefine them. , feminism-antiracism-environmentalism).