El devenir-hermanas de NonUnadiMeno. O el rol de los afectos en la articulación de un movimiento feminista transnacional
Keywords:
NonUnadiMeno, sisterhood, (trans)feminism, subjectivation, affects, becoming-sisters, ethnographyCopyright (c) 2024 Virginia Fusco
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Abstract
Drawing from ethnographic research in Italy, this article discusses the ways in which multiple uses of sisterhood play a strategic role in articulating forms of political activism within the contemporary (trans)feminist movement of NonUnadiMeno (No One Less). Empirically, it enlarges scholarship’s prevailing focus on the problematic political implications of sisterhood as a unifying universal to an exploration of the complex, multi-layered and often conflicting dimensions of its usage in the movement’s daily practices. More specifically, it discusses how the notion of sisters/sisterhood operates both as a signifier on a macro level and on the micropolitical scale of the weekly assembly. The use of an ethnographic focus contributes to mitigating the currently underexplored role that sisterhood still plays as a signifier that shapes militants’ everyday political commitments. Theoretically, the article contributes to the study of how metaphors and language operate in ‘creating the world’ of these transnational activists, in promoting their collective subjectivation and in articulating novel forms of affective care inside the social and political life of the movement itself.
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