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Mia Liinason. Foto.

Mia Liinason

Forskningsansvarig | Professor

Mia Liinason. Foto.

"Drawing the line" and other small scale resistances : Exploring agency and ambiguity in transnational feminist and queer NGOs

Författare

  • Mia Liinason

Summary, in English

This article explores the discourses, actors, and cross-border exchanges that
shape the broader landscape of contemporary transnational feminist and
queer non-governmental organizations (NGOs). While several studies have
pointed to the co-opted role of NGOs, fewer have explored the potential for
NGOs to influence the conditions under which they operate. That is what this
article sets out to do, with the goal of highlighting the potential for feminist
and queer NGOs to engage in oppositional politics within contexts of
neoliberalism. Based on material collected during ethnographic fieldwork with
transnational feminist and queer NGOs, this article examines how NGOs
position themselves in relation to the political and financial structures that
condition their work; how and to what effect the emerging professional class
of NGO activists navigate the contradictory landscapes within which they are
located; and the ambiguities of cross-border exchanges among NGOs. The
article shows examples of agency and small-scale resistance, but also
illuminates the palpable risks of existing neoliberal tendencies among funders
and NGOs. I conclude that transnational feminist and queer NGOs have much
to gain from intervening more decisively in such ambiguities as those
examined in this article.

Avdelning/ar

  • Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2021-07-16

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

102-124

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Feminist Journal of Politics

Volym

23

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Gender Studies

Nyckelord

  • Feminism
  • queer
  • NGOs
  • transnational
  • neoliberalism

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1468-4470