Résumés
Abstract
This introduction to the special issue on Feminist Strike takes up the question of what remains marginalized and overlooked within dominant discourses on contemporary feminist protests. Drawing on experiences of and approaches to feminist refusal that involve questions of labour, we propose the ways in which conceptualizations of feminist strike can be employed as a lens to build a conversation between different practices, scales, and geographies, particularly across postcolonial and postsocialist contexts. Through a reading of Aliki Saragas’s film Strike a Rock (2017) about the women living around the Marikana miners’ settlement in the aftermath of a major strike, we explore how notions of feminist strike can be expanded by situating Black women’s struggles in South Africa within a long tradition of women’s resistance and showing how political resistance is bound to questions of reproductive work. To understand the intersection of postsocialist, post-conflict, and (pre-)Europeanization transformations, we consider the case of a large-scale strike and public demonstrations against the bankruptcy of the Croatian shipyard Uljanik that took place in 2018 and 2019. Our perspectives on the Marikana and the Uljanik strikes show how women in both places practise a politics of refusal and resistance against ruination, violence, and defeat. In the last section, we summarize the contents of the articles that comprise the special issue.
Keywords:
- feminist strike,
- reproductive labour,
- postsocialist,
- postcolonial,
- post-apartheid,
- Marikana,
- Uljanik,
- strike a rock
Résumé
Cette introduction du numéro spécial portant sur la grève féministe soulève la question de ce qui reste marginalisé et négligé dans les discours dominants sur les manifestations féministes contemporaines. En nous inspirant d’expériences du refus féministe et d’approches qui y sont liées, qui intègrent des questions relatives au travail, nous présentons les façons dont on peut adopter l’optique des conceptualisations de la grève féministe pour établir un dialogue entre différentes pratiques, échelles et géographies, plus particulièrement dans les contextes postcoloniaux et postsocialistes. Au moyen d’une interprétation du documentaire d’Aliki Saragas, Strike a Rock (2017), qui traite de femmes vivant aux alentours du village minier de Marikana à la suite d’une importante grève, nous examinons la façon dont les notions relatives à la grève féministe peuvent être approfondies en positionnant les luttes de femmes noires en Afrique du Sud dans une longue tradition de résistance des femmes et en montrant la façon dont la résistance politique est liée à des questions relatives au travail reproductif. Pour comprendre l’entrecroisement des transformations du postsocialisme, de l’après-conflit et de (ce qui a précédé) l’européanisation, nous examinons le cas d’une grève de grande envergure et de manifestations publiques contre la faillite du chantier naval croate Uljanik, qui se sont déroulées en 2018 et 2019. Nos points de vue par rapport aux grèves de Marikana et de l’Uljanik démontrent la façon dont les femmes de ces deux endroits exercent une politique de refus et de résistance contre la ruine, la violence et la défaite. Dans la dernière partie, nous résumons le contenu des articles de ce numéro spécial.
Mots-clés :
- grève féministe,
- travail reproductif,
- postsocialisme,
- postcolonialisme,
- post-apartheid,
- Marikana,
- Uljanik,
- Strike a Rock
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