"Communion and Liberation" Movement: Transnational Practices and Discourses

Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology

This paper engages the theme of “decolonizing psychological science” in the context of a perspective on psychological theory and research—namely, feminist psychology—that shares an emphasis on broad liberation. Although conceived as a universal theory and practice of liberation, scholars across diverse sites have suggested that feminism—perhaps especially as it manifests in psychological scienc...

Post-Liberation Feminism and Practices of Freedom

Most feminist theorists over the last forty years have held that a basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group are oppressed. The concept of oppression has never had a very broad meaning in liberal discourse, however, and with the rise of neo-liberalism since 1980 it has even less currency in public debate. This article argues that, while we may still believe women are oppressed, for pragm...

Between phatic communion and coping tactic : Casamançais multilingual practices

This paper enquires into the role of multilingual practices in conviviality in shared, socially and culturally mixed localities. I ask how Casamançais use diverse repertoires to get by in everyday life in both Casamance, Senegal and Catalonia, Spain. The concept of conviviality stresses fragile, dynamic processes characteristic of everyday ways of living together with maintained difference. I a...

Women’s Liberation Movement: The Second Wave

This paper examines some of the achievements and setbacks that the “second wave” of the Women’s Movement faced based on their organizational capacity. Women across the United States have the equality and opportunities that they have today because of the sacrifice of feminists during this period in time. However, due to a lack of cohesiveness during a majority of the “second wave,” feminists end...

Rethinking Clientelism: Demands, Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Brazil