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Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/2196787/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2196787/</a> Working in Europe: How can social mobility boost the continent’s economy? <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Economy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomyOfEU</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfTheEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EconomyOfTheEU</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#employment</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EUEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EUEconomy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GDP</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SocialMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMovement</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GulabiGang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GulabiGang</a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Feminist</a> Vigilantism: Violence and Articulation within a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMovement</a> by Jerin Jacob, Posted on February 1, 2019 "'Yes, we fight rapists with lathis (bamboo sticks). If we find the culprit, we thrash him black and blue so he dare not attempt to do wrong to any girl or a woman again,' brags <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SampatDeviPal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SampatDeviPal</a>, founder of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinkSariGang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PinkSariGang</a>, popularly known as the Gulabi Gang. Rooted in one of the poorest and most populated villages of Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh, north India, this all woman group prides in its collective identity as vigilantes and are literally, wielding sticks and fighting for women’s equality and liberty in the area."The inhabitants of Bundelkhand have to, on a daily basis, struggle against infertility of local lands, extreme poverty, illiteracy, frequent droughts, a corrupt judicial system and an oppressive and deeply hierarchical caste system on one hand and frequent incidences of rape, child marriage, domestic abuse, dowry deaths. etc on the other. What started as a one-time saving action wherein Sampat Pal Devi rounded up a few women and along with them, beat up a neighbor who abused his wife, has now grown into a feisty network of rebellious women across over eleven districts of India’s largest province, Uttar Pradesh, each honing a stick, ready to follow and deliver Sampat Devi’s alternate model of justice. With the vision to ‘protect the powerless from abuse and fight corruption’, the gang and its agenda found resonance with much of India’s population, where reports of sex crimes, domestic violence and gang rapes blighted the smooth functioning of the society."Every marginalized community in India faces some kind of violence or the other. However, women who hail from a lower caste face a heightened version of this marginalization. 'Baichi jat' or 'all women constitute a caste' best describes the status of women in marginalized communities. Caste movements and women’s movements have hitherto come into being in the Indian scenario, but this is the first time that a movement for women from the lower caste is coming to the fore."In this case, we see that women’s vigilantism has successfully proved to be an effective and temporary strategy to combat localized instances of gender violence. However, feminist scholarship throws light upon reasons why this sort of agency in resisting patriarchal forms of culture doesn’t fit into the long-term principles of feminist action. These instances of retributive ghettoizing and attacking the perpetrators does posit us with a moral and ethical predicament as to how far are they permanently justifiable in the eyes of the law and order set in place by society. "Nevertheless, the Gulabi gang and its collective acts of aggression have managed to foster new feminist linkages for these women, allowing them options of social and physical mobility which were hitherto inaccessible."Through the various activities and issues the gang takes up, we can reach a consensus that marginalized women who have utilized such organized forms of violence in order to gain justice, actually find themselves walking the thin line between legally punishable and socially acceptable action. Atreyee Sen argues that such women’s groups that function outside the legal system ultimately end up adopting a language of politics and pacifism in order to gain legitimacy and credibility as a social movement. One can observe that female vigilantism, in disempowered communities, attains a credible space when examined through the lens of ‘ethical violence’ and other related understandings of proportionate punishment for crimes against women. Sen, quotes Shanti, a member of the gang since 2007, 'In all the time that I have been with the gang, we only beat people, we have never murdered anyone'."Deniz Kandiyoti in her essay ‘Bargaining with Patriarchy’, talks about the abstract notion of patriarchy as seen in contemporary feminist theory. She takes up a systematic and comparative examination of women’s strategies in coping with different forms of patriarchy. She says that while different forms of patriarchy assign women ‘distinct rules of the game’, women have to traditionally come up with a novel set of strategies for both active and passive resistance, ie women in different locations, spatially and culturally, have to make different kinds of patriarchal bargains to deal with the situations they are in. This study of hers leads her to opine that an analysis of different forms of resistance reflects a culturally and geographically grounded understanding of various patriarchal systems."Read more (archived version): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230922235058/https://www.onefuturecollective.org/the-gulabi-gangs-feminist-vigilantism-violence-and-articulation-within-a-social-movement/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20230922235058/https://www.onefuturecollective.org/the-gulabi-gangs-feminist-vigilantism-violence-and-articulation-within-a-social-movement/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternetArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetArchive</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patriarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicMasculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToxicMasculinity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GirlsFightBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GirlsFightBack</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GulabiGangs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GulabiGangs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FeministVigilantism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FeministVigilantism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomenFightBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenFightBack</a>

Emmanuel Veneau 📸Demonstration against pension reform. Auch, France, March 2023. 📷 Emmanuel Veneau (cc by-nc-sa) <a href="https://photog.social/tags/AmbulationsPhotographiques" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmbulationsPhotographiques</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/AsTheDaysGoBy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AsTheDaysGoBy</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/SocialMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMovement</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protest</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/SocialStruggles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialStruggles</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/BlackAndWhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackAndWhite</a>

Richard HullAll <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SocialMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMovement</a> folks, do check out the wonderful trainings offered by <a href="https://campaign.openworlds.info/@socialmovetech" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@socialmovetech</a> See here: <a href="https://socialmovementtechnologies.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://socialmovementtechnologies.org/</a>

PreorgQuite strange that I can't find any <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academic</a> writing on the recent turn to radical <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CommunityOrganising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommunityOrganising</a> in the UK. It's not exactly fresh at this point, I expected to find at least one journal article on it. I guess it reflects how little <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SocialMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMovement</a> writing there is in UK academia. Or does anyone know of anything?

Kat Fuller ☕Hey World!I joined after what happened with Twitter... I'm a graduate sociology student and the Head of Communications for an independent think-tank that focuses on the far-right movement in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canada</a>. My research interests includes <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/masculinities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#masculinities</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#online</a> spaces, and the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/farright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#farright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/socialmovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmovement</a>.I am currently working on a paper focusing on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ecofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecofascism</a>, hegemonic <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#masculinity</a> and TERFs.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@sociology</a>

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