A Praxis of Persistence : Central American Feminist Testimony and Sustainable Activism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neitch, Kenna.

Series:

SUNY Series, Praxis: Theory in Action Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Women political activists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Examines feminist strategies of persistence and adaptation in Central America from the 1980s to 2020.A Praxis of Persistence establishes persistence as a framework for understanding methods of feminist activism in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

The Damage of Damage-Centered Research (or Why Persistence)

A Decolonial Feminist Approach to Social Movements (or Why Textual Analysis)

Patterns of Persistence (or Why Central America)

Case Studies in Sustaining Struggle

1. Transgressive Testimonio: Persistence and Strategic Adaptability in the Salvadoran Civil War

Contact Zones, Persistence, and Adaptability

Representation, Authorship, and Generic Adaptation

Naming Identities of Community Resistance

Facilitating Multivocality

Falling Short in Representation

Language and Readership

2. Seeing and Sustaining Each Other: Postwar Encuentros as Feminist Tool and Genre

Encuentros as a Feminist Genre: Brief Historical Overview

Encuentros as Gatherings

Encuentros as Texts

Why This Encuentros

Discursive Frameworks for Articulating and Modeling Principles

Models of Vulnerability and Accountability

The Rhetoric of Visibilizar

Vizibilizar Through Multivocal Testimony and Organizing

Formatting Collectivity and Conflict

Textual Production as Movement Building

Encuentros as Tools for Revision

Visualizing and Intervening in Postwar Conditions

How Scholarship Understands the Postwar

How Feminist Encuentros Understand the Postwar

3. Liberatory Adaptations of Complementarity at the 2002 First Summit of the Indigenous Women of the Americas

The Contexts of Guatemalan Maya Women

Persistent Cosmologies

Contested Articulations of Gender

Complementarity, Power, and Persistence

Equitable Complementarity

Communal Power

Proliferating and Adapting

4. Call Out, Call In: Two Approaches to Testimonial Justice in Central America's #MeToo

Postwar Feminist Networks and Anti-MVAW Organizing

#MeToo in Central America

Diverging Digital Feminist Approaches

@MeTooNicaragua.

@HondurasMeToo

Connections and Opportunities

Continuaciones

Strategic Adaptability in Conflicted Sites of Struggle

Cross-Border, Horizontal Networks

More Than Martyrdom

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0752-3

OCLC:

1589183205