Even when those struggles are not our own: Storytelling and solidarity in a feminist social justice organization

Weatherall, R

Even when those struggles are not our own: Storytelling and solidarity in a feminist social justice organization

Weatherall, R

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Publisher:: WILEY
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Gender, Work and Organization, 2020, 27, (4), pp. 471-486
Issue Date:: 2020-07-01

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dc.contributor.author	Weatherall, R https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7398-5275
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-02T06:50:38Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-02T06:50:38Z
dc.date.issued	2020-07-01
dc.identifier.citation	Gender, Work and Organization, 2020, 27, (4), pp. 471-486
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dc.description.abstract	© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This article draws on an eight-month ethnography in a feminist social justice organization that supports survivors of domestic violence and shares the storytelling practices that fostered solidarity. These storytelling practices stemmed from decades of decolonizing work undertaken by Māori women to have their knowledge and ways of being equally integrated into the organization. The storytelling practices, grounded in Māori knowledge, emphasized that the land is actively productive of our identity and knowledge; our actions and beliefs are part of a non-chronological intergenerational inheritance; the personal is collective. I contend that these practices fostered solidarity and situated feminism in a collective history of localized struggle. Accordingly, this article expands our imaginative capacity for how solidarity can be thought of and fostered between feminists in different contexts.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	WILEY
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dc.subject	1503 Business and Management, 1608 Sociology, 1699 Other Studies in Human Society
dc.subject.classification	Gender Studies
dc.title	Even when those struggles are not our own: Storytelling and solidarity in a feminist social justice organization
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© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This article draws on an eight-month ethnography in a feminist social justice organization that supports survivors of domestic violence and shares the storytelling practices that fostered solidarity. These storytelling practices stemmed from decades of decolonizing work undertaken by Māori women to have their knowledge and ways of being equally integrated into the organization. The storytelling practices, grounded in Māori knowledge, emphasized that the land is actively productive of our identity and knowledge; our actions and beliefs are part of a non-chronological intergenerational inheritance; the personal is collective. I contend that these practices fostered solidarity and situated feminism in a collective history of localized struggle. Accordingly, this article expands our imaginative capacity for how solidarity can be thought of and fostered between feminists in different contexts.

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