Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia

Abstract Taking impetus from a collaborative conversation about writing a feminist repair manifesto, this article is focused on examining radical feminist manifestos, new technology manifestos, and their intersecting themes and influence upon cyberfeminist manifestos. Its theoretical underpinnings include histories of repair and maintenance and the manifesto as technological form. As a practice, repair and theorisations of repair regarding technology take into account invisible labour and create a relationship of care not only within communities, but in relation to everyday technologies. Since this work to write a feminist fixers’ manifesto was inspired by the iFixit Repair Manifesto, the NYC Fixers Collective manifesto, as well as manifestos from radical feminist technology movements, it seemed appropriate to consider and critically engage the function of manifestos in these various maker and digital technology communities, as well as the history of radical feminist manifestos in response to cultural oppression. By looking more deeply at specific historical instances and their function, I aim to uncover the importance of such artefacts to give voice to alternative narratives and practices, to subvert systemic oppressions while at other times reproducing them in their form. I argue that there is power in iterating and proliferating manifestos with a critical stance and work to establish the knowledge-producing and world-making potentials of manifesto writing.

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Cultural Oppression

Dictionary of Multicultural Psychology: Issues, Terms, and Concepts ◽

10.4135/9781452204437.n58 ◽

2012 ◽

Keyword(s):

Cultural Oppression

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Cultural Oppression and Human Trafficking: Exploring the Role of Racism and Ethnic Bias

Women & Therapy ◽

10.1080/02703149.2016.1210964 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 40 (1-2) ◽

pp. 152-169 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Thema Bryant-Davis ◽

Pratyusha Tummala-Narra

Keyword(s):

Human Trafficking ◽

Ethnic Bias ◽

Cultural Oppression

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The politics of recognition

NEW Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies ◽

10.5130/nesais.v2i1.1488 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 105-106

Author(s):

Sara Borman

Keyword(s):

Torres Strait Islander ◽

Charles Taylor ◽

Politics Of Recognition ◽

Torres Strait ◽

Sense Of Identity ◽

Cultural Oppression

When Charles Taylor wrote about the importance of seeing oneself reflected in the images that build a sense of identity, both internally and in the eyes of the onlooker (1997, pp. 25-26), he was writing about something that anybody could see the necessity of. I do not pretend to be able to understand the mosaic of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences, but the patterns of erasure and stereotype that underpin systemic cultural oppression are echoed whenever marginalisation is something people try to maintain; for example, Taylor writes about feminist theorists with this idea of recognition and internalised oppression (1997, p. 25). The fact that anyone can then look at the prospect of constitutional recognition and feel ambivalent at the very least is genuinely upsetting to me.

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