Mobilizing BIPOC Student Power against Liberalism at Soka University of America: A Collection of Voices

The Radical Teacher ◽

10.5195/rt.2021.899 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 121 ◽

pp. 31-41

Author(s):

Victoria Huỳnh ◽

Kristen Storms ◽

Jordyn Saito ◽

Professor X ◽

Aneil Rallin

Keyword(s):

Third World ◽

White Supremacy ◽

University Administration ◽

Feminist Analysis ◽

Student Power ◽

Critical Reflections

We write as a collective of BIPOC undergraduate activist students/organizers and contingent/tenured professors dedicated to Black, Third World, and Indigenous liberation through a feminist analysis at Soka University of America (SUA). We focus our critique on liberalism as a dominant political paradigm that has solidified the reign of empire and it’s necropolitical grips on our communities within and without SUA, our SLAC. We highlight through a brief chronology of the epistemic and physical struggles against hegemonic power exercised by our university the ways in which liberalism acts as counterrevolutionary ideology and offer critical reflections/interventions on our struggles against white supremacy at our SLAC, as well as on how our university administration utilizes “liberalism” as a technology of imperialism. We come together to resist empire from where we stand. We believe in the pedagogical possibilities of resistance.

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Performing Solidarity: Whiteness and Status-seeking in the Non-Aligned World

10.31235/osf.io/x8fje ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Srdjan Vucetic

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

International Relations ◽

International Society ◽

Third World ◽

White Supremacy ◽

Critical Role ◽

Historical Documents ◽

Status Seeking ◽

White Ignorance ◽

East West

The 1955 Afro-Asian Summit at Bandung is regarded as a pivot in the formation of Third World-ism and of coloured solidarity against Western colonialism and global white supremacy. But while this anti-imperialist spirit was no doubt present at Bandung, so were many other spirits, including those of Cold War realpolitik. We consider the different meanings of Bandung by examining the critical role Yugoslavia played in the rise of the Non-Aligned Movement in years that followed the summit. Drawing on primary historical documents, we show that Yugoslav leaders consistently failed to appreciate the racism of the international society and their own racialised privilege in it. They did appreciate, however, that performing solidarity with the decolonised and decolonising nations would bring major status rewards to Yugoslavia in the context of the East-West showdown. That self-consciously anti-imperialist and anti-colonial positions can be thickly enveloped in white ignorance suggests the need for more critical International Relations analyses of race, racism and racialised international hierarchies.

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Zina, Transnational Feminism, and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women

American Journal of Islam and Society ◽

10.35632/ajis.v25i4.1437 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 122-125

Author(s):

Habiba Zaman

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Abuse ◽

Third World ◽

Muslim Women ◽

Transnational Feminism ◽

The State ◽

Moral Regulation ◽

Feminist Analysis ◽

Politics And Religion ◽

Drug And Alcohol

Using the role of an immigrant researcher in her country of origin, ShahnazKhan uses her feminist lens to explore dualities, decontextualization, andstereotypes of third-world women, more specifically Muslim women, whileexamining the contested issue of the ZinaOrdinance and itsmultifaceted consequencesfor women in Pakistan. Juxtaposing her feminist analysis withinthe context of transnational feminism, the author examines the tensions surroundingthis ordinance by questioning three intersecting contexts, namely, culture, politics, and religion. Pointing out such issues as corruption, maleviolence, poverty, and drug and alcohol abuse, Khan argues that the ordinanceallows families, in collaboration with the state, to regulate women’ssexuality. She reminds her readers that women charged with adultery and fornicationby the state are not victims, as they resist their incarceration in multipleways. Ironically, the prisons as well as the state-sponsored sheltersbecome safer spaces for women to flee the wrath of their families ...

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Development

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.8 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Elora Halim Chowdhury

Keyword(s):

Third World ◽

Gender And Development ◽

Critical Perspective ◽

Feminist Analysis ◽

Women In Development ◽

Women's Lives ◽

Critical Account ◽

Third World Women ◽

Development Initiatives

This chapter lays out the contours of development as a modernist initiative and details feminists’ engagement with it. It draws on the work of anthropologist Arturo Escobar to provide a critical account of the general project of development. It reviews the various feminist engagements with development, including women and development (WAD), women in development (WID), gender and development (GAD), and focuses on such policy areas as population and microcredit in which development initiatives have had a pronounced impact on women’s lives, not always for the good. It emphasizes the significance of feminist analysis of the construct “Third World women” to opening a critical perspective on development.

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