Women resisting border regimes : Two case studies from Eastern and Northern Europe

Summary, in English

This chapter explores border regimes in Northern and Eastern Europe and analyses the transnational regime at the core of practices of intimacy, labour, economy and reproduction for the construction of the state and the nation. The authors argue that the women they followed during fieldwork refused to conform to norms around sexual desire, authentic subjectivity and ‘rational’ legitimised economic action and suggest that this visualises a multi-levelled resistance against territorial, socio-spatial and symbolic borders of the nation, the state, the neo-liberal economy and hetero-/homo-normativity. Hope is explored at the level of the everyday, in the forms of transgression that are rarely articulated or spoken about but that in their powerful silence challenge national narratives about borders and create new forms of intimacy. Hope seems to inscribe itself in feminist activists’ ability to translate or to re-frame women-friendly models within traditional cultural norms.

• Författare: Mia Liinason; Olga Sasunkevich
• Redaktör: Lena Martinsson; Diana Mulinari
• Publiceringsår: 2018-01-01
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 39-57
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms : Visions of Feminism : Global North/Global South Encounters, Conversations and Disagreements
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315149820-3
• Dokumenttyp: Del av eller Kapitel i bok
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis
• Ämne: Gender Studies
• Aktiv: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISBN: 9781138555990; ISBN: 9781351369367; ISBN: 9781315149820