Feminist Ethics and Hegemonic Global Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11885643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vivienne Jabri (0000-0002-3383-3012, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-284 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Alternatives Global Local Political (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-3754 • E-ISSN: 2163-3150 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030437540402900302 |
| OpenAlex | W4312525 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 6 |
The challenge for feminism in the present relates to how it responds, ethically and politically, to a global context that is at once geared toward total control and fragmentation. In seeking to contribute to the revival of feminism as a distinctly political project, this article explores the potential of feminist contributions in relation to ethics and politics. The aim is not to reenact, or even to reactivate, the well-worn arguments around universalism and the ethic of care.1 It aims instead to reclaim the political in feminist discourse, to identify its conditions of possibility, and to consider its location in relation to the hegemonic order that clearly defines the present. Faced with totality, a totality that I argue is based on a hegemonic neoliberal order and a matrix of war, feminism's options appear to be twofold. On the one hand, there is clearly the option of complicity, a form of co-optation into the discourses of the powerful. On the other, there is the option of dissention and contestation. The feminism of co-optation is not intentionally supportive of totality, but rather lacks a discourse based on a radical critique of the present. However, and far more significantly, there is another feminist voice, located in a plethora of spaces and associations, essentially and necessarily transnational, that contests and through contestation enables the emergence of woman as speaking subject, possessing an ever-shifting agency that in itself is circumscribed by time and space, culture and society, the local and the global. This is an engaged feminism, one that refuses co-optation, or uniform definitions of what it is to be a liberated self
Agency (philosophy · Complicity · Context (archaeology · Feminism · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Universalism · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
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| Citation span | 2006 - 2018 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |