Editor: Dr. Luqman-nul Hakim
Politics of Resistance: An Alternative Path to Learn IRs
There are various paths to learning IRs. Each approach has indeed offered a different focus and analytical model to explain how global politics works and transforms. To the proponents of structural realism, for example, the way to learn IR is to comprehend how great powers compete and create a distinct global structure that forces other countries to formulate strategies, alliances, and behaviors. For the liberals, the path to learning IRs is by showing how international regimes or global governance are constituted and operate…
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Femicides, the murder of women due to their gender, has become a normalized part of Mexican women’s reality. The construction of a violent misogynistic reality cannot be detached from the operations of state institutions. In the struggle for their survivalMexican women realized that if they want to change the course of their violent reality, they can no longer trust the state to protect them. Using Hardt and Negri’s approach to look at anarchist social movement, this paper analyzes Mexican feminists departure from the state as a form of social movement strategy to resist against femicide.
Keywords: Social movements, violence against women, femicide, distrust to the state, Mexico
Neoliberal reforms to remove regulations and protections on Indian agriculture and industries, along with a weakening of the social safety net has left large sections of the nation’s working class deeply embittered, culminating in nationwide strikes by Indian workers and peasants which overwhelmed Indian security forces, triggered judicial intervention, and ultimately resulted in a victory for an Indian proletariat embattled with the elite over the nation’s economic future. This Paper discusses the implications of such a rare victory for the working class in one of the world’s largest and most unequal countries, offering that this could be the start of a counter-hegemony against the neoliberal consensus in India.
Keywords: India, Counter-Hegemony, Farmers, Strikes, India Farm Bills
As climate change progressively gets worse from year to year due to human activities and greed, governments should act for a change to forge a sustainable future. However, to this day, we rarely see the government introducing real changes in policies to save the environment. Departing from this, the Extinction Rebellion (XR) -a global social movement -presumes itself an important actor in forcing governments’ actions through collective action and mobilization. Using the resource mobilization theory (RMT) to highlight the significance of utilizing resources adequately in determining a social movement’s success, this paper analyzes the missed opportunities of the XR.
Keywords: climate change, extinction rebellion, social movement, mobilization, collective action, resources
Women continuously face challenges throughout their presence in the patriarchal society, including the normalized sexual objectification of their bodies. Free the Nipple is a campaign that illustrates women’s struggle on facing the inequality between them and men, symbolizing women’s nipples as a form of gender empowerment. This essay will analyze the insurgence of the Free the Nipple campaign through the concept of collective identity, and how it has successfully politicized the social media guideline intoa form of women’s empowerment through the framing of gender identity that results in a broader scope of gender inequality struggles.
Keywords: Free the Nipple, women’s empowerment, feminism, digital campaign, gender inequality
A new emerging women’s movement in South Korea has sparked through a series of protests and campaigns between 2015 to 2018. This movement does not only demand for multiple institutional and legal changes to women’s rights such as the legalization of abortion and stronger protection against sexual harassment, but also a country-wide transformation that led to the impeachment of President Park Geunhye. Digital technologies and social media have provided platform for this movement to raise consciousness on their collective oppression and to organize themselves into a larger movement. This essay attempts to analyze how this new emerging women’s movement in South Korea was organized and mobilized using the political process model. By focusing on the three aspects of the model: expanding political opportunities, cultural framings, and mobilizing structures, the essay contextualizes the emergence, collective organization, and mobilization of South Korean women’s movement between 2015 and 2018 within the larger structure of the South Korean neoliberal state.
Keywords: women movement, South Korea, neoliberalism, women’s rights, social media movement
