What the Egyptian Revolution Can Offer #MeToo

Author(s): Yasmin El-Rifae

Vol The Nation2018

The author highlights the peculiarities of the ‘MeToo’ movement in the United States, and the differences between North American and Egyptian society. She then describes the origin and tactics of Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment and Assault (OpAntiSH), a women-led, feminist and civilian group combatting sexual assault in Cairo

Available online at:

https://www.thenation.com/article/what-the-egyptian-revolution-can-offer-metoo/

Neoliberal feminism in Africa

Author(s): Yemisi Akimbobola

In: Eurozine, 2019

Argues that, in a society like Nigeria’s, where lack of financial opportunity has fostered an entrepreneurial mindset, and where distrust of western feminism is culturally entrenched, neoliberal feminism may be women’s best option, even if neoliberal feminism is criticized for its disregard for structural inequalities and thus for failing women most susceptible to violence.

Available online at:

https://www.eurozine.com/neoliberal-feminism-africa/

Violence, Resistance and Gezi Park

Author(s): Yeşim Arat

In: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol 45, No 4 (Nov), 2013, pp. 807-809

Examination of violence from a gender perspective by academic specializing in women’s political participation in Turkey.

Feminism in China. An analysis of advocates, debates, and strategies

Author(s): Yifei Shen

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Shanghai, 2017, pp. 25

This study looks at feminism in China over the last century and reveals that feminist movements and arguments at most times have been linked to the nation’s development. Independent and mass feminist movements like those in the West never developed in China. By taking a look at the realities of women and their images in contemporary China, the study shows that feminism in the People’s Republic of China has still plenty of room for development.

See also Menke Augustine, (2017) ‘The development of feminism in China’, Undergraduate Thesis and Professional Papers, pp. 20.

Minds Stayed On Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle In The Rural South – An Oral History

Author(s): Youth of Rural Organising and Culture Center

Westview, Boulder CO, 1991, pp. 198

Oral histories from Holmes County, Mississippi, voter registration campaign, which Payne (above) says ‘suggests what we may hope for’ in future historical research, identifying ‘themes important from an organising perspective’ and based on the collective work of teenagers – ‘a powerful reminder of what the movement’s values were’.

Feminist scholar calls Japan's gender problem "human disaster"

Author(s): Yuka Nakoaa

In: Kyodo News, 2019

Finland’s Han Honours award, which recognizes individuals promoting equality around the world, was given to Professor Chizuko Ueno, a Women’s Studies scholar in January 2019 for her research and books, and also for her activism for women’s right in Japan. She has provoked debates on issues such as gender discrimination and sexual violence. This article, which notes several high profile recent incidents exposing sexism in Japan, reports Professor Ueno’s comments on sexism.

Available online at:

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/06/5fbad0a24182-feature-feminist-scholar-calls-japans-gender-problem-human-disaster.html

The Hiroshima Panels Visualize Violence: Imagination over Life

Author(s): Yukinori Okamura

In: Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Vol 2, No 2, 2019, pp. 518-534

After experiencing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945, Chinese-ink painter Iri Maruki and oil painter Toshi Maruki began their collaboration on the Hiroshima Panels in 1950. During the Allied occupation of Japan when reporting on the atomic bombing was strictly prohibited, the panels made known the hidden nuclear sufferings through a nationwide tour. In 1953, the panels began a ten-year tour of about 20 countries, mainly in East Asia and Europe, and disseminated the Hiroshima stories in the age of the US-Soviet arms race. The Marukis embarked on a new direction in the 1970s, with their emphasis on complex realities of war in which the victim/perpetrator dichotomy was not clear-cut, and explored other forms of violence such as pollution and discrimination.

Cultural Context and Social Movement Outcomes: Conscientious Objectors and Draft Resistance Movement Organizations in Israel

Author(s): Yulia Zemlinskaya

In: Mobilization: An International Quarterly, Vol 14, No 4 (Dec), 2009, pp. 449-466

Comparative analysis of two Israeli organizations supporting conscientious objection and draft resistance during the Second Palestinian Intifada, exploring impact of Israeli culture on tactics and how different tactics of two organizations have different impact in Israel.

The Massive New Protests in Iran Explained

Author(s): Zack Beauchamp

In: Vox, 2018

Report on how small group protests in Iran's second largest city, Mashhad, in December 2017 rapidly grew into major demonstrations reported in most provinces across Iran, with crowds often demanding an end to the dominance of senior clerics and the Revolutionary Guard. Beauchamp notes that protests on specifically economic issues, the responsibility of the parliamentary leader President Rouhani, could be acceptable to the religious leaders, but a direct challenge to their own dominance was not. 

Available online at:

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/3/16841310/iran-protests-2018

The Green Wave

Interview with German Greens-also available in German

Author(s): Zack Grant

In: International Politics and Society, 2019

Refers to study by the interviewees of Green parties in 32 countries, and asks about their geographical spread (primarily Europe and Latin America), but much weaker in Eastern Europe than in most West European countries. The interview discusses the reasons for the varying electoral support and success of Green parties and also the impact of the weakening of mainstream parties and political polarisation to both the left and the right. 

Available online at:

https://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/global/article/show/the-green-wave-3401/

Iraqis Demand a Country

Author(s): Zahra Ali

In: MERIP: Middle East Research and Information Project, Vol 292, No 3, 2019, pp. 1-10

A detailed account and analysis of the 'spontaneous and leaderless protest movement' that was strongest in Shia-dominated provinces, but spread across Iraq.  Ali notes how protests in Baghdad in early October 2019 against the removal of a popular general, who had led the fight-back against ISIS, were also fuelled by anger at failures of basic services, such as water and electricity, and the pervasive political corruption. These demonstrations developed into a demand for a new political system to replace the US- imposed regime based on ethnicity and religious divides. The article then sets the 2019 movement in the context of earlier waves of protest, starting with the 2009 protests in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Sunni-majority protests in 2012-13 against their exclusion from political power.  It also emphasizes the role of a new generation of protesters since 2015. 

Available online at:

https://merip.org/2019/12/iraqis-demand-a-country/

Is ‘feminism’ really helping women’s rights in the Middle East?”

Author(s): Zarqa Parvez

In: Middle East Monitor, 2019

Debates how intersectional feminism is relevant to the Middle East, in relation to a different conception of class, ethnicity and social status from the West. It examines whether a fixed understanding of feminism – based on a westernized value system - might be detrimental to the achievement of women’s rights in Middle Eastern societies.

Available online at:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190131-is-feminism-really-helping-womens-rights-in-the-middle-east/

Night Frost in Prague: The End of Humane Socialism

Author(s): Zdeněk Mlynář

Hurst, London, 1980, pp. 300

Account by Communist Party leader close to Dubcek of internal Party politics leading up to the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, personal account of the Kremlin ‘negotiations’ after the abduction of top leaders, and his resignation from the Party.

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