Bice Maiguashca
Biographic Data
| ID | 304380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bice Maiguashca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bice |
| FAMILY NAME | Maiguashca |
| SIGNATURE | MAIGUASHCA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0443-9857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Theorising power and resistance under contemporary capitalism: An interview with Nancy Fraser
In this interview, Fraser reflects on the meaning of the so-called 'culture wars' for theorising power and domination, the nature of contemporary struggles for liberation, the role the concept of labour could play in bringing those movements together in political action, and the wider theoretical and political work needed to achieve it. She also offers her assessment of some of the theoretical literature that has addressed those issues. In doing …
Gender Politics after Corbynism
This article examines Corbynism's gender politics, and its relationship with feminism. We note that in the early years of the Corbyn period there were starkly opposed positions on the gender dynamics and feminist‐friendliness of the Corbyn project. This, in turn, reflected wider factional divisions, often mapping onto different articulations of the relationship between feminism, race/whiteness, and trans rights. We then describe how initial prosp…
Did somebody say populism? Towards a renewal and reorientation of populism studies
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Lovely people but utterly deluded’: British political science’s trouble with Corbynism
Resisting the ‘populist hype’: A feminist critique of a globalising concept
The purpose of this article is to offer a feminist critique of populism, not as a distinct mode of politics, but as an analytical and political concept. As such, it seeks to redirect our attention away from populism, understood as a politics ‘out there’, towards the academic theoretical debates that have given this analytical term a new lease of life and propelled it beyond academic circles into the wider public discourse. In this context, the ar…
Theorising feminist organising in and against neoliberalism: Beyond co-optation and resistance
This article reviews contemporary academic debates about feminist organising in and against neoliberalism, which we see as structured by a co-optation–resistance dichotomy. We outline three narratives: a high-profile ‘strong’ co-optation thesis; a more nuanced co-optation discourse; and an emergent counter-narrative of resistance. While sympathetic to the latter two, we critically unpack the account of neoliberalism, of feminist protagonists and …
Gender, Power, and Left Politics: From Feminization to “Feministization
Responding to ongoing debates about the presence (or otherwise) of feminism within left-wing politics, this article has two central aims. First, it seeks to develop a set of analytical criteria to identify and assess the extent to which an instance of politics has become “feminist.” Second, it aims to illustrate the utility of this framework by applying it to a range of examples of contemporary left politics in Britain. Our argument is similarly …
Pulling together in a crisis? Anarchism, feminism and the limits of left-wing convergence in austerity Britain
In this article, we examine three key, recently emergent sites of anti-austerity activism in Britain - Left Unity, the People's Assembly and Occupy - in order to explore to what extent and in which ways the traditional British left is in the process of reconfiguring itself. More specifically, we explore the 'points of contact' being developed, or not, amongst feminist, anarchist and Marxist/socialist activists. We argue that if we are seeing a mu…
They're Talkin' Bout a Revolution: Feminism, Anarchism and the Politics of Social Change in the Global Justice Movement
Despite the proliferation of works on the 'global justice movement' (GJM) in recent years, surprisingly little has been written on the intersections between feminist and anarchist strands within this 'movement of movements'. In an effort to rectify this gap in the literature, this article seeks to explore in what ways and to what extent anarchist and feminist renditions of revolution, within the context of the GJM, are conceptually compatible and…
Contemporary Political Agency: Theory and Practice
Introduction Raffaele Marchetti 1. Political Agency and Subjectivity in the Crisis of Modernity Debora Spini 2. Political Agency between Urban and Transnational Spaces Clive Barnett 3. Judicial Agency in the Building of the European Union: A Comparison of the European Court of Justice and the US Supreme Court Derek Beach 4. Political Agency in the Economy: Cooperatives, Solidarity and Territory in Euskadi and Aquitaine Xavier Itcaina 5. Political…
Reclaiming Feminist Futures: Co-Opted and Progressive Politics in a Neo-Liberal Age
This article engages with the influential narrative about the co-optation of feminism in conditions of neo-liberalism put forward by prominent feminist thinkers Nancy Fraser, Hester Eisenstein and Angela McRobbie. After drawing out the twin visions of 'progressive' feminist politics that undergird this narrative - couched in terms of either the retrieval of past socialist feminist glories or personal reinvention - we subject to critical scrutiny …
Looking Beyond the Spectacle: Social Movement Theory, Feminist Anti-globalization Activism and the Praxis of Principled Pragmatism
The purpose of this article is to critically interrogate, from a feminist perspective, the manner in which the politics of dissent, in general, and the collective practices that constitute it, in particular, have been portrayed and conceptualized within the field of social movement theory (SMT). To this end, the first part of the article offers a brief sketch of Political Process Theory, one of the most well-established conceptual frameworks with…
Roundtable: The Limits of Bridge-Building
This roundtable develops arguments presented at the 2008 International Studies Association (ISA) annual convention. The theme of the convention was `Bridging Multiple Divides' and its aim to enhance dialogue among the diverse research communities within international studies. The aim of the `Limits of Bridge-Building' panel at ISA, and the present roundtable, has been to probe the challenges presented by bridge-building and specifically the possi…
Feminist Scholarship, Bridge-Building and Political Affinity
In this short essay we consider, first, the reasons why feminist IR academics should seek to build bridges with each other, with other academics and with those outside the university. Second, we develop some tentative guidelines for how we should go about the task of bridge-building, drawing on our research into feminist activism at the World Social Forum. Our intention in so doing is not to reinforce what we have elsewhere criticised as a false …
Rethinking Globalised Resistance: Feminist Activism and Critical Theorising in International Relations
This article argues that a feminist approach to the ‘politics of resistance’ offers a number of important empirical insights which, in turn, open up lines of theoretical inquiry which critical theorists in IR would do well to explore. Concretely, we draw on our ongoing research into feminist ‘anti-globalisation’ activism to rethink the nature of the subject of the politics of resistance, the conditions under which resistance emerges and how resis…
Making feminist sense of the “anti-globalisation movement”: Some reflections on methodology and method
The central purpose of this paper is to outline what I take to be the distinctive contributions that a feminist understanding of politics can offer to the study of social movements in general and the “anti-globalisation movement” in particular. In other words, my objective is not to provide a theoretical or empirical account of anti-globalisation politics but rather to explore how one would go about constructing such an account if one allowed fem…
Bridging the Academic/Activist Divide: Feminist Activism and the Teaching of Global Politics
Our starting point in this article is the widespread belief that academia and activism are separate worlds, driven by contrasting aims and imperatives and governed by different rules. Such a view is based on a series of takenfor-granted and highly problematic ontological dichotomies, including mind/body, theory/practice, reason/emotion, abstract/concrete and ‘ivory tower’/ ‘real world’. Perhaps most fundamentally, these serve to set up thinking a…
Theorizing knowledge from women's political practices: The case of the women's reproductive rights movement
Over the past decade there has been much debate within IR/political theory about the nature and status of knowledge with much of the tension revolving around the conflicting positions of so called `modernist' and `postmodernist' scholars. This article aims to critically evaluate the insights of both these approaches to knowledge in light of feminist theory and the practices of one social movement, that is, the women's reproductive rights movement…
Critical Theories, International Relations and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement': The Politics of Global Resistance
Governance and resistance in world politics
For several decades after International Relations (IR) became a fully-fledged field of study at British and American universities, it worked with a relatively simple conceptualisation of ‘politics’ as such. In the international context, ‘politics’ involved an ongoing struggle for power among sovereign states, with war the worst-case outcome of this struggle. Power itself was defined essentially in terms of military and economic ‘capabilities’. Th…
Did somebody say populism? Towards a renewal and reorientation of populism studies
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Reclaiming Feminist Futures: Co-Opted and Progressive Politics in a Neo-Liberal Age
This article engages with the influential narrative about the co-optation of feminism in conditions of neo-liberalism put forward by prominent feminist thinkers Nancy Fraser, Hester Eisenstein and Angela McRobbie. After drawing out the twin visions of 'progressive' feminist politics that undergird this narrative - couched in terms of either the retrieval of past socialist feminist glories or personal reinvention - we subject to critical scrutiny …
Rethinking Globalised Resistance: Feminist Activism and Critical Theorising in International Relations
This article argues that a feminist approach to the ‘politics of resistance’ offers a number of important empirical insights which, in turn, open up lines of theoretical inquiry which critical theorists in IR would do well to explore. Concretely, we draw on our ongoing research into feminist ‘anti-globalisation’ activism to rethink the nature of the subject of the politics of resistance, the conditions under which resistance emerges and how resis…
Theorising feminist organising in and against neoliberalism: Beyond co-optation and resistance
This article reviews contemporary academic debates about feminist organising in and against neoliberalism, which we see as structured by a co-optation–resistance dichotomy. We outline three narratives: a high-profile ‘strong’ co-optation thesis; a more nuanced co-optation discourse; and an emergent counter-narrative of resistance. While sympathetic to the latter two, we critically unpack the account of neoliberalism, of feminist protagonists and …
Resisting the ‘populist hype’: A feminist critique of a globalising concept
The purpose of this article is to offer a feminist critique of populism, not as a distinct mode of politics, but as an analytical and political concept. As such, it seeks to redirect our attention away from populism, understood as a politics ‘out there’, towards the academic theoretical debates that have given this analytical term a new lease of life and propelled it beyond academic circles into the wider public discourse. In this context, the ar…
Pulling together in a crisis? Anarchism, feminism and the limits of left-wing convergence in austerity Britain
In this article, we examine three key, recently emergent sites of anti-austerity activism in Britain - Left Unity, the People's Assembly and Occupy - in order to explore to what extent and in which ways the traditional British left is in the process of reconfiguring itself. More specifically, we explore the 'points of contact' being developed, or not, amongst feminist, anarchist and Marxist/socialist activists. We argue that if we are seeing a mu…
Gender, Power, and Left Politics: From Feminization to “Feministization
Responding to ongoing debates about the presence (or otherwise) of feminism within left-wing politics, this article has two central aims. First, it seeks to develop a set of analytical criteria to identify and assess the extent to which an instance of politics has become “feminist.” Second, it aims to illustrate the utility of this framework by applying it to a range of examples of contemporary left politics in Britain. Our argument is similarly …
Bridging the Academic/Activist Divide: Feminist Activism and the Teaching of Global Politics
Our starting point in this article is the widespread belief that academia and activism are separate worlds, driven by contrasting aims and imperatives and governed by different rules. Such a view is based on a series of takenfor-granted and highly problematic ontological dichotomies, including mind/body, theory/practice, reason/emotion, abstract/concrete and ‘ivory tower’/ ‘real world’. Perhaps most fundamentally, these serve to set up thinking a…
Looking Beyond the Spectacle: Social Movement Theory, Feminist Anti-globalization Activism and the Praxis of Principled Pragmatism
The purpose of this article is to critically interrogate, from a feminist perspective, the manner in which the politics of dissent, in general, and the collective practices that constitute it, in particular, have been portrayed and conceptualized within the field of social movement theory (SMT). To this end, the first part of the article offers a brief sketch of Political Process Theory, one of the most well-established conceptual frameworks with…
Lovely people but utterly deluded’: British political science’s trouble with Corbynism
They're Talkin' Bout a Revolution: Feminism, Anarchism and the Politics of Social Change in the Global Justice Movement
Despite the proliferation of works on the 'global justice movement' (GJM) in recent years, surprisingly little has been written on the intersections between feminist and anarchist strands within this 'movement of movements'. In an effort to rectify this gap in the literature, this article seeks to explore in what ways and to what extent anarchist and feminist renditions of revolution, within the context of the GJM, are conceptually compatible and…
Theorising power and resistance under contemporary capitalism: An interview with Nancy Fraser
In this interview, Fraser reflects on the meaning of the so-called 'culture wars' for theorising power and domination, the nature of contemporary struggles for liberation, the role the concept of labour could play in bringing those movements together in political action, and the wider theoretical and political work needed to achieve it. She also offers her assessment of some of the theoretical literature that has addressed those issues. In doing …
Theorizing knowledge from women's political practices: The case of the women's reproductive rights movement
Over the past decade there has been much debate within IR/political theory about the nature and status of knowledge with much of the tension revolving around the conflicting positions of so called `modernist' and `postmodernist' scholars. This article aims to critically evaluate the insights of both these approaches to knowledge in light of feminist theory and the practices of one social movement, that is, the women's reproductive rights movement…
Governance and resistance in world politics
For several decades after International Relations (IR) became a fully-fledged field of study at British and American universities, it worked with a relatively simple conceptualisation of ‘politics’ as such. In the international context, ‘politics’ involved an ongoing struggle for power among sovereign states, with war the worst-case outcome of this struggle. Power itself was defined essentially in terms of military and economic ‘capabilities’. Th…
Critical Theories, International Relations and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement': The Politics of Global Resistance
Theorizing knowledge from women's political practices: The case of the women's reproductive rights movement
Over the past decade there has been much debate within IR/political theory about the nature and status of knowledge with much of the tension revolving around the conflicting positions of so called `modernist' and `postmodernist' scholars. This article aims to critically evaluate the insights of both these approaches to knowledge in light of feminist theory and the practices of one social movement, that is, the women's reproductive rights movement…
Making feminist sense of the “anti-globalisation movement”: Some reflections on methodology and method
The central purpose of this paper is to outline what I take to be the distinctive contributions that a feminist understanding of politics can offer to the study of social movements in general and the “anti-globalisation movement” in particular. In other words, my objective is not to provide a theoretical or empirical account of anti-globalisation politics but rather to explore how one would go about constructing such an account if one allowed fem…
Bridging the Academic/Activist Divide: Feminist Activism and the Teaching of Global Politics
Our starting point in this article is the widespread belief that academia and activism are separate worlds, driven by contrasting aims and imperatives and governed by different rules. Such a view is based on a series of takenfor-granted and highly problematic ontological dichotomies, including mind/body, theory/practice, reason/emotion, abstract/concrete and ‘ivory tower’/ ‘real world’. Perhaps most fundamentally, these serve to set up thinking a…
Rethinking Globalised Resistance: Feminist Activism and Critical Theorising in International Relations
This article argues that a feminist approach to the ‘politics of resistance’ offers a number of important empirical insights which, in turn, open up lines of theoretical inquiry which critical theorists in IR would do well to explore. Concretely, we draw on our ongoing research into feminist ‘anti-globalisation’ activism to rethink the nature of the subject of the politics of resistance, the conditions under which resistance emerges and how resis…
Roundtable: The Limits of Bridge-Building
This roundtable develops arguments presented at the 2008 International Studies Association (ISA) annual convention. The theme of the convention was `Bridging Multiple Divides' and its aim to enhance dialogue among the diverse research communities within international studies. The aim of the `Limits of Bridge-Building' panel at ISA, and the present roundtable, has been to probe the challenges presented by bridge-building and specifically the possi…
Feminist Scholarship, Bridge-Building and Political Affinity
In this short essay we consider, first, the reasons why feminist IR academics should seek to build bridges with each other, with other academics and with those outside the university. Second, we develop some tentative guidelines for how we should go about the task of bridge-building, drawing on our research into feminist activism at the World Social Forum. Our intention in so doing is not to reinforce what we have elsewhere criticised as a false …
Looking Beyond the Spectacle: Social Movement Theory, Feminist Anti-globalization Activism and the Praxis of Principled Pragmatism
The purpose of this article is to critically interrogate, from a feminist perspective, the manner in which the politics of dissent, in general, and the collective practices that constitute it, in particular, have been portrayed and conceptualized within the field of social movement theory (SMT). To this end, the first part of the article offers a brief sketch of Political Process Theory, one of the most well-established conceptual frameworks with…
Contemporary Political Agency: Theory and Practice
Introduction Raffaele Marchetti 1. Political Agency and Subjectivity in the Crisis of Modernity Debora Spini 2. Political Agency between Urban and Transnational Spaces Clive Barnett 3. Judicial Agency in the Building of the European Union: A Comparison of the European Court of Justice and the US Supreme Court Derek Beach 4. Political Agency in the Economy: Cooperatives, Solidarity and Territory in Euskadi and Aquitaine Xavier Itcaina 5. Political…
Reclaiming Feminist Futures: Co-Opted and Progressive Politics in a Neo-Liberal Age
This article engages with the influential narrative about the co-optation of feminism in conditions of neo-liberalism put forward by prominent feminist thinkers Nancy Fraser, Hester Eisenstein and Angela McRobbie. After drawing out the twin visions of 'progressive' feminist politics that undergird this narrative - couched in terms of either the retrieval of past socialist feminist glories or personal reinvention - we subject to critical scrutiny …
They're Talkin' Bout a Revolution: Feminism, Anarchism and the Politics of Social Change in the Global Justice Movement
Despite the proliferation of works on the 'global justice movement' (GJM) in recent years, surprisingly little has been written on the intersections between feminist and anarchist strands within this 'movement of movements'. In an effort to rectify this gap in the literature, this article seeks to explore in what ways and to what extent anarchist and feminist renditions of revolution, within the context of the GJM, are conceptually compatible and…
Pulling together in a crisis? Anarchism, feminism and the limits of left-wing convergence in austerity Britain
In this article, we examine three key, recently emergent sites of anti-austerity activism in Britain - Left Unity, the People's Assembly and Occupy - in order to explore to what extent and in which ways the traditional British left is in the process of reconfiguring itself. More specifically, we explore the 'points of contact' being developed, or not, amongst feminist, anarchist and Marxist/socialist activists. We argue that if we are seeing a mu…
Theorising feminist organising in and against neoliberalism: Beyond co-optation and resistance
This article reviews contemporary academic debates about feminist organising in and against neoliberalism, which we see as structured by a co-optation–resistance dichotomy. We outline three narratives: a high-profile ‘strong’ co-optation thesis; a more nuanced co-optation discourse; and an emergent counter-narrative of resistance. While sympathetic to the latter two, we critically unpack the account of neoliberalism, of feminist protagonists and …
Gender, Power, and Left Politics: From Feminization to “Feministization
Responding to ongoing debates about the presence (or otherwise) of feminism within left-wing politics, this article has two central aims. First, it seeks to develop a set of analytical criteria to identify and assess the extent to which an instance of politics has become “feminist.” Second, it aims to illustrate the utility of this framework by applying it to a range of examples of contemporary left politics in Britain. Our argument is similarly …
Lovely people but utterly deluded’: British political science’s trouble with Corbynism
Resisting the ‘populist hype’: A feminist critique of a globalising concept
The purpose of this article is to offer a feminist critique of populism, not as a distinct mode of politics, but as an analytical and political concept. As such, it seeks to redirect our attention away from populism, understood as a politics ‘out there’, towards the academic theoretical debates that have given this analytical term a new lease of life and propelled it beyond academic circles into the wider public discourse. In this context, the ar…
Did somebody say populism? Towards a renewal and reorientation of populism studies
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Gender Politics after Corbynism
This article examines Corbynism's gender politics, and its relationship with feminism. We note that in the early years of the Corbyn period there were starkly opposed positions on the gender dynamics and feminist‐friendliness of the Corbyn project. This, in turn, reflected wider factional divisions, often mapping onto different articulations of the relationship between feminism, race/whiteness, and trans rights. We then describe how initial prosp…
Theorising power and resistance under contemporary capitalism: An interview with Nancy Fraser
In this interview, Fraser reflects on the meaning of the so-called 'culture wars' for theorising power and domination, the nature of contemporary struggles for liberation, the role the concept of labour could play in bringing those movements together in political action, and the wider theoretical and political work needed to achieve it. She also offers her assessment of some of the theoretical literature that has addressed those issues. In doing …
Sociology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Feminism (8 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (8 works)