Moving Feminism: How to ‘Trans’ the National?

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Notes

¹I would like to thank the co-editor of this issue, Clare Tebbutt for her involvement in the development of this introduction. Thanks are also due to Kaye Mitchell for her input in the early stages of the special issue, and to Barbara Rosenbaum at Women: A Cultural Review for her patience and support as Clare and I edited the issue. Finally, special thanks are due to Anastasia Valassopoulos for her comments on an earlier draft of this introduction, and her unstinting encouragement and guidance as the issue was put together.

²Thanks are due to Anastasia Valassopoulos and Mary Macfarlane for all their support in the organising of this conference, as well as all the academics, artists and activists who participated.

³ See also Mendoza ‘Transnational Feminisms in Question’ (2002) for a discussion of the usage of the terms ‘transnational,’ and its effectiveness as both theory and practice.

⁴See Mary Maynard, ‘“Race,” Gender and the Concept of ‘Difference’ in Feminist Thought’ for more discussion of this.

⁵Also see Erel et al. ‘On the Depoliticisation of Intersectionality Talk’ (2008) for a reassessment and appraisal of this term/approach.

⁶See Kaplan ‘The Politics of Location as Transnational Feminist Practice’ (1994) for a discussion of the limitations of Rich's formulation as it conceptualises ‘woman’ as subject who is situated rather than woman who emerges through conditions.

⁷See Morgan, Sisterhood is Global (1996), and Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders (2003) for a transnational feminist response to Morgan's text.

⁸This is akin to how Ella Shohat has theorised multicultural feminism in her introduction to Talking Visions (2001).

⁹See also Spivak ‘“Woman” as Theatre’ (1996) for a critique of the 1995 UN Conference on Women in Beijing.

¹⁰As Griffin points out, states have much to do with how the affective is regulated. The connections between governmentality and affect were explored in depth by Anne-Marie Fortier in her keynote at the conference. Fortier argued for the role of the British government's community cohesion agenda in the affective management of difference. See also Fortier, ‘Proximity by Design?’ (2010).

¹¹Al-Ali and Pratt (2009).

¹²Riley et al. (2008).

¹³See Jayawardena Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (1986).

¹⁴See Said, The World, The Text and the Critic (1983) for a detailed illumination of this concept.