Even when those struggles are not our own : storytelling and solidarity in a feminist social justice organisation Ruth Weatherall
By: Weatherall, Ruth
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ArticleSeries: Gender, Work & Organization.Publisher: Wiley, 2019Subject(s): ADVOCACY | COLONISATION | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | FEMINISM | HISTORY | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | MĀORI | NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES | SUPPORT SERVICES | WOMEN | KŌRERO NEHE | TAIPŪWHENUATANGA | TIKANGA TUKU IHO | TŪKINOTANGA Ā-WHĀNAU | WĀHINE | NEW ZEALANDOnline resources: Read abstract
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Gender, Work & Organization, 2019, Advance online publication, 20 May 2019Summary: This article draws on an 8 month ethnography in a feminist social justice organisation that supports survivors of domestic violence, and shares the storytelling practices that fostered solidarity. These storytelling practices stemmed from decades of decolonising work undertaken by Māori women to have their knowledge and ways of being equally integrated into the organisation. The storytelling practices, grounded in Māori knowledge, emphasised 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 localised struggle. Accordingly, this paper expands our imaginative capacity for how solidarity can be thought of and fostered between feminists in different contexts. (Author's abstract). Record #6290
Gender, Work & Organization, 2019, Advance online publication, 20 May 2019
This article draws on an 8 month ethnography in a feminist social justice organisation that supports survivors of domestic violence, and shares the storytelling practices that fostered solidarity. These storytelling practices stemmed from decades of decolonising work undertaken by Māori women to have their knowledge and ways of being equally integrated into the organisation. The storytelling practices, grounded in Māori knowledge, emphasised 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 localised struggle. Accordingly, this paper expands our imaginative capacity for how solidarity can be thought of and fostered between feminists in different contexts. (Author's abstract). Record #6290
