PAP 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Postcolonial Feminism, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Area Studies

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3325
• Professor: Ishara Mahat

Document Summary

Lecture 3 feminist solidarity through anti-capitalist struggles. Feminist scholarship: hegemony of western scholarship, monolithic: third world women, euro centrism superior v. inferior women, universalizing methodology. Under western eyes revisited: highlight on common political project than failing of western feminism, shift in political economy through the globalization, religious fundamentalists to the rights of women, anti-capitalists feminists practices, cross-national feminists solidarity against capitalism. Categorization of world: first world developed, industrialized and capitalist countries (north america, western europe, japan, and australia, second world former communist-socialist industrial states (soviet. Union, eastern europe, cuba, vietnam, china: third world underdeveloped/developing world: africa, asia, latin. America: forth world indigenous people who make up 300-600 million of the world"s total population (6000 groups) Labeling in international development: global north countries with high human development index (north. America, western europe, and japan: v. global south countries with low human development index (latin america, south asia, middle east, africa and pacific) Global north pathways to transnational capital v.