Contemporary enclosures and resistance
Women in struggle in Ireland, Scotland and Brazilian Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3204884 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Garvey (0000-0003-1931-8679, University of Strathclyde, corresponding author), Maria Leusa Kaba Munduruku (Wakoburun Association, Brazil), Catherine Macphee (Revolting Crofters Social Club, UK), Fidelma O’kane (Save Our Sperrins Campaign, Ireland), Rosamaria Santana Paes Loures (0000-0001-5275-0119, Universidade de Brasília), Rosamaria Loures (Universidade de Brasília), Marcela Vecchione-Gonçalves (Universidade Federal do Pará) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 637-652 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capital & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/03098168251353403 |
| OpenAlex | W4415844418 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article traces a discussion between women to the fore of struggles against contemporary enclosures in Ireland, Scotland and Brazil. The forms of resource capitalization, wildcat and corporate mining, 'rewilding' schemes and 'green' energy infrastructures, lead to different material effects and subjective experiences for those who inhabit the zones of intrusion, expansion and encroachment. They lead also to differentiated motivations for - and forms of - resistance by individuals and communities whose histories, cultures and livelihoods interdepend on the territories in which new movements are born or reborn. A discussion with women taking and remaking collective actions in their particular places reveals distinctive challenges, strategies and successes in the face of acute power inequalities and highlight capital-labour antagonisms that lie outside of conventional readings of industrial and worker organising. The interconnectedness of the experiences across disparate territories that are shared here helps to make visible the current wave of capitalist enclosure and the effects on rural, island and forest communities. Furthermore, the dialogue unveils the effective and positioned methods by which women make and remake communities of resistance on the grounds on which they tread and create recognition, affection, solidarity and commitment with others across territories in ways that, as the article concludes, point to revitalisation of a much-needed global solidarity, from below
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |