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The Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) was an American naval surveillance network developed over the course of the Cold War. Spanning from the Pacific coast across the Atlantic, SOSUS is remembered for its unprecedented reach and is often figured as a precursor to centralized, networked, and automated surveillance systems today. This article contributes to, and complicates, this history by approaching SOSUS from the perspective of one of its outposts. Iceland was neither an agent nor a target of American surveillance but, as a staging grounds for SOSUS, both shaped and was shaped by this process nevertheless. Theorizing this position as the surveillant surrounds, this article asks after the experience of being interpellated into someone else’s surveillance program, or living where surveillance is a pervasive part of the landscape while occupying neither the position of observer nor observed. In Southern Iceland, I argue, SOSUS both activated and was meaningfully anchored by a local politics of gendered intimacy. Doing so, I shed fresh light on the legacy of SOSUS and make a broader case for attending to the particular place-based dynamics that shape and situate “global” surveillance networks then and today.
Keywords: sound surveillance system, Cold War, sonar, sexual surveillance, Iceland
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The Sex Work Activist Histories Project (SWAHP) is an interdisciplinary research and recordkeeping initiative to record and disseminate the radical knowledges, activist expertise, and important social movement histories created by activists connected to the Canadian sex worker rights movement. This paper explores how stakeholders of SWAHP work together ethically, and maintain good relations with each other when engaging in what we call high-stakes recordkeeping. Our discussions consider both the divergences or differences between academic and non-academic project partners, our convergence or common ground, and the bridges we have built between academic and non-academic concerns and practices to establish and develop methodologies and practices that inform SWAHP’s ongoing collaborations and sex-work activist histories, archives, and related activisms. We consider how to be mutually accountable to our varied and complex analytical and affective positionalities in the specific context of working ethically and relationally in high-stakes recordkeeping. We conclude by considering the relevance of these lessons to other contexts of community-led archiving and research. This paper is a lightly edited transcript of the speaker notes from a 2021 CAIS/ACSI (Allard, Ferris, Lebovitch, Clamen, and Hughes, 2021) panel presentation. Project partners are identified individually in their article sections to share, highlight, and preserve what is unique about each project partners’ perspective and voice, and to make explicit how we work together.
Keywords: community archiving, sex work activism, high-stakes recordkeeping, anti-violence feminisms, relationality
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Following the 2001 crisis in Argentina, cumbia villera emerged as a national music. Writers such as Washington Cucurto and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara incorporated the genre in their novels to reevaluate the political function of art in a neoliberal context. This article has two objectives: to consider the intermediality between cumbia and literature in two post-crisis novels; and to analyze how this intermediality engages with and reconfigures notions of neoliberalism. I propose to read cumbia-literature as an expression of what Verónica Gago calls a “neoliberalism from below,” which, in its most utopian iterations, wields the possibility of renewing democratic dissensus.
Keywords: cumbia villera, cumbia villera, Washington Cucurto, Washington Cucurto, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, neoliberalismo, neoliberalism, intermediality, intermedialidad
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While major societal tensions affect the social organization, the scope of group animation is immense because it can transform, deflect or reinforce behaviors, opinions and ways of thinking. Organizing the communication through a previous scripting, animation can either impose its objectives in full transparency or hide them behind masks of virtue, or to pass its power of influence on to individuals so that they determine through dialogue a common sense which is their most precious social good. Moving away from an intersubjective approach, the « animation space » has shrunk as many citizens refuse to participate in activities designed for them and not with them. If only dialogic processes can make a reflexive distancing and critical thinking grow, how can a journal dedicated to this topic apply them in its animation of a research and practice community?
Keywords: espacio de animación, espace d’animation, animation space, scénarisation, guion, scripting, proceso dialógico, dialogic process, processus dialogique, sentido común, common sense, sens commun
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Keywords: Sahel, Djaïli Amadou Amal, Cameroun, postcolonialisme, écocritique, féminisme, décolonialité
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Keywords: Ken Bugul, Alain Mabanckou, postcolonialisme
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In the context of recent critiques of Women’s and Gender Studies’ (WGS) institutionalization within the academy, this article foregrounds the role that a transdisciplinary and critical womanist legal studies may play in addressing some of the most significant concerns. It discusses the contours of a research approach, building on previous work in WGS as it intersects with critical legal scholarship from other locations in the academy with similar goals, purposes, and commitments to social justice. It also assesses the extent to which legal studies are evidenced in current published works in WGS journals and emphasizes how an increased emphasis on such scholarship permits researchers to usefully explore significant concerns in the field, including the operation of power and privilege, possible interventions in dominant cultural discourses, and legal constructions of intersecting roles of race, gender, class, and sexuality. Further, the article suggests that transdisciplinary critical womanist legal studies may help to address concerns that the successful institutionalization of WGS has narrowed the field’s focus, blunted its critical edge, and separated academic work from grassroots communities and political action.
Keywords: field formation, institutionalization, legal studies, transdisciplinarity, women’s studies
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In this article, I revisit the Wages for Housework (WfH) perspective and movement in order to recover Marxist-feminist analyses of social reproduction. Social reproduction remains an important site of contestation, especially as women continue to bear the brunt of an increasingly neo-liberalized economy. WfH’s nuanced view of wages and housework, I argue, should be reconsidered as a point of departure in responding to new forms of oppression in a re-organized economy.
Keywords: Housework, wages, social reproduction, second wave, social movements, feminism