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International Marx congress V
October 3, 2007
ALTERMONDIALISME - ANTICAPITALISME
FOR AN ALTERNATE COSMOPOLITIQUE
Program Feminist Etudes section
Coordinators: Elsa Dorlin and Annie Bidet-Mordrel
University of Paris X Nanterre, building L, room 111
“Is Another world possible”, but which other world? A cosmopolitic alternative but which? Which fights to carry out to reach that point? Fights of which, with which and against which or what? With which objectives? Apprehended under the angle of the social reports/ratios of sex, these questions imply a turning. In very first place, a return criticizes on the concept of universalization. The feminist studies, by producing new tools, new concepts, reveal new problems and inter alia, the need for not thinking the juxtaposition of the reports/ratios of kind, class, of race, but their intrication as well as the articulation of total and the room. Intrication, articulation, which one cannot overlook if one wants to include/understand which political subjects can carry out the fights, which will give direction and contents so that could be a new world.
Therefore, from the point of view of the kind:
Which alternative analyses of universalization? Which social reports/ratios are concerned? Which political subjects are to be built and how?
The section “Studies feminist” proposes to study some strategic points, which make it possible to renew the apprehension of the facts of the case and of the solutions and the articulation of the fights to be carried out.
WORKSHOPS:
Workshop 1: Thursday October 4, 2007. 10 hours-12 hours, room 111.
Kind, care and migrations: the internationalization of the work of reproduction
Presidency: Pascale Molinier, University lecturer in Occupational psychology to the National Academy of Arts and Trades - CNAM and member of the Laboratory of action and occupational psychology - CNAM
Amandine Bach, chercheure, Institut of studies of the development, catholic University of Leuwen, Belgium
Réarticulation of the social reports/ratios of sex, classifies and race: the case of the domestic migrant men in Brussels:
Vis-a-vis the abundance of literature on the domestic migrant women, we were interested in the men “with the margins” of the sphere of the reproduction and with specificity of their migratory project, of their professional insertion and the construction of their identity. Through the accounts of life of Filipino and Latin-American migrant men in Brussels, we will see how the social reports/ratios of sex, class and “race” are réarticulent within their experiment.
Adelina Miranda, Enquiring, Université of Naples-engine
Female migrations and family service in the residence:
The current feminization of the migratory flux is related to an international modification of the productive but also reproductive sphere. In this intervention we are interested particularly in employment of the care in the countries known as Western. Our assumption is that the recourse to the female foreign labour grants the maintenance of a certain social balance, in particular between the sexes. In addition, the creation of a “model of family service in the residence”, while mitigating the consequences of the diffusion of a liberal economy, guarantees the traditional female presence in space domesticates and creates new forms of subordination and ethnicisation between them.
Maria Emilia Tijoux, Sociologist, Doctor of Sociology of the University Paris 8, chercheure and Professor at the University Bolivarienne, Santiago, Chile.
Peruvian, immigrant in Santiago. A daily art of the struggle for life:
Since the middle of 2005, Chile became the principal destination of the Peruvians who emigrate. The majority are women who leave their village and their family to go to seek means of surviving. Once established in Chile, they must face work, with the education of their children, loneliness and the uprooting. In spite of the difficulties, they build their life with far by inventing specific forms, which enable them to remain in Chile and to achieve their goals. The consequences of this lifestyle sacrificed in an unknown and hostile country appear very complex.
Workshop 2: Thursday October 4, 2007. 14 hours 16 hours, room 111.
Kind and neoliberalism
Presidency: Annie Bidet Mordrel, Aggregate of philosophy, Graduate of higher learning of economic scenes.
Vivian Aranha Saboia, Sociologist, Post-doctorante at the University of the State of Maranhão (UEMA/Brésil) in partnership with the Laboratory Work Kind and Mobilité/CNRS (France).
The trajectory of the flexibilisation of employment in the context of the neoliberalism in France and in Brazil and the implications on the employment of women:
With trajetória da flexibilização C emprego No contexto C neoliberalismo Na frança E No brasil E ace implicações sober O emprego das mulheres:
After the crisis of the model of regulation fordist, years 1990 were the occasion of a resumption of the liberal design with the assertion of the “sovereignty” of hard-working finances in spite of the class of the workers/. Since, the deregulation of the financial markets and work, necessary to the progress of the neoliberalism, were born in France and in Brazil, in particular since the years 1980 and the years 1990, respectively. In general, while being based on a speech of fight against unemployment, countries of the center (as France) frequently regulated the part-time work contracts, whereas in the peripheral countries there was a massification of abstract and precarious employment. All these types of work, mainly occupied by women, are the result of what makes the heart even capitalist mode of which the objective, the accumulation of richnesses, needs a reserve army whose core (decent employment) is reduced more and more and whose mass of under employee (E) S is growing.
In this text we will make an analysis sexuée of the trajectories Frenchwoman and Brazilian towards the flexibilisation of employment. It is about the context of the adoption of Employment Policies which flexibilisé the profit-sharing report/ratio and, in particular the profit-sharing report/ratio of the women in order to support the development of a wage company marked by the employability. We will see that it acts neoliberal policies or social liberal adopted like answer to the needs for capitalism and who reduce, on “acceptable levels”, the inequalities and exclusions which this process at the same time generates.
Gaëlle Krikorian, Enquiring associated with the IRIS, interdisciplinary Research institute on the social stakes. Social sciences, policy, health - UMR 8156 CNRS-Inserm-EHESS-University Paris 13. Militant in Act Up-Paris.
Composition in 4 movements: genealogy and evolution. Against the AIDS - for the access to the drugs - against the agreements of free trade, for the access to the knowledge:
The intervention will aim to present filiations and evolutions of four recent movements: the fight against AIDS, the access to the drugs in the developing countries, the fight against the agreements of free trade promoted by the United States, the mobilization against a too restrictive application of the intellectual property laws and for the access to knowledge and the knowledge.
Stéphanie Treillet, Economist, IUFM Créteil- University Paris XII
The instrumentalisation of the kind in the new consensus of Washington:
The effects of the policies of structural adjustment (NOT) on the situation of the women in the Third World countries were occulted a long time by the liberal theories and the international institutions. However, the failure of the STEPS starting from the end of the year 1980, like the persistence of movements of women many and massive in the companies which these policies struck, one leads the theorists of liberalism to bring up to date the “consensus of Washington”. Accordingly, the question of the kind became omnipresent, as the reports/ratios of the World Bank attest it since about fifteen year. It will be shown that this institutionalization of the kind is put at the service of a reformulation of the orthodoxe design of the development, and is used as base with a liberalization and a privatization of all the bases of the reproduction of the labour force (public services, social protection systems) like flexibilisation of wage-earning.
Workshop 3: Thursday October 4, 2007. 16 hours-18 hours
Meet with Gayatri Chakravorty SPIVAK
Workshop 4: Friday October 5, 2007. 9 hours-11 hours, room 111. Review Work, Kind and Companies.
The damage of economic violence
Under the direction of Isabelle Puech:
Florence Levy, Doctorante CECMC - EHESS- Paris; MAPS - University of Neuchâtel
The surprise on arrival: Living and working conditions of the Chinese migrant women in France:
The vulnerability is in the middle of the migratory courses of the Chinese towards France. It starts at the time of the way and continues well after their arrival. Their voyage often proceeds several months under inhuman conditions. The arrival in France does not mark the end of the martyrdom, quite to the contrary. They are found in irregular situation and taken out of clipper between impossibility of obtaining an authorization of work and the need for refunding their debts as fast as possible. The underground economy, large provider of illegal employment, and in particular the ethnic economy, seem the only possible exit. An exit which takes the form of an exploitation implemented by employers often resulting from the Chinese community and for this reason, best placed to misuse the vulnerability of the new migrants.
Isabelle Puech, Post-doctorante CSU-IEC
The work not declared of the domestic employees: between constraints and strategies:
In Europe, in the sector of domestic cleaning, between 50 and 80% of the workers would not be declared. The place of the moonlighting in the domestic services is not without bond with the sex of the workers concerned - quasi exclusively of the workers - nor with the contents of the work, traditionally dealt with free by the women in the domestic sphere. For as much, the dimension of the kind is generally absent from devices set up in the sector to fight against work not declared. The latter aim above all the fraudulent practices of the employers and wonder little about the diversity of the forms that the moonlighting to take little among workers. The uses which the women of the moonlighting make are not neutral taking into consideration kind. They return to original forms of management of the activity, in a company where the women are held to jointly deal with family community activity and loads.
In this communication, we will analyze the lesson drawn from a post-doctoral research on the courses of cleaning ladies working at private individuals in France and Belgium. We will be interested in the ways of entry in the moonlighting and with diversity that this one can take according to the family configurations, economic and legal of the women met.
Christian Trotzier, Doctorand CSU-CNRS and Paris VIII
The shock of the dismissal: women and men in the storm:
The trajectories of 130 laid off for economic motive were reconstituted, on more than twenty years, starting from accounts of life and phone interviews carried out between 2003 and 2006. These men and these women, fired in 1983 within the framework of a reduction of manpower, came from a company of mechanics. The majority were syndicated and had taken part in the many fights which marked the history of this establishment. The dismissal was, for much, a humiliation and an injustice. Lived in loneliness, it tended to nourish a tough rancour towards the not fired wages-earner. The collective ideal was destroyed. Members of long time expressed a final distrust towards the trade unionism.
The women and the workmen of more than 40 years, more than of others, found themselves in a distress related to uncertainties of the professional future. If the young professional workmen could start again their career on an ascending slope, a majority of workers, workmen of more than 40 years and semi-skilled workers knew, under one or more aspects, an irreversible downgrading. The professional trajectories weaken and are décollectivisent.
In the field of health, the shock of the dismissal was hard. Many women crossed a depressive state. The social vulnerability engaged by the dismissal is punctuated, at the men, by a strong mortality. The violence of the dismissals, summons personal sufferings lived in insulation, remains, to some extent, hidden.
Pierre Concialdi (provided) (ANGERS)
Workshop 5: Friday October 5, 2007. 11 hours-13 hours, room 111.
Feminist movements and universalization
Presidency: Helena Hirata, Sociologist, research director at CNRS
Chiara Bonfiglioli, Laid off in Political sciences with l University of Bologna, is currently in master in Women´s studies with l University d´Utrecht, Netherlands, within the framework of a research project on the feminist movements in ex-Yugoslavia. Collaboration with the reviews Studi Culturali and Zapruder in Italy, and with the review Hitch in France.
L ecofeminism, between materialism and Utopia:
Philosophy ecofeminist combines the feminist thought and the thought ecologist, s´opposant with capitalist and patriarchal l exploitation women, of l´environnement and people of the South of the World. Vandana Shiva, in its fight against the food multinationals and for the biodiversity, shows the possible militant variations of l ecofeminism. A genealogy of this philosophy and its stakes to include/understand its articulations with the movements altermondialists, between materialism and Utopia.
Isabelle Carle, Chercheure, Groupe of studies and research “Kind and Migration”, Institute of Sociology ULB.
The political mobilization of the immigrant women at the European level: which stakes and which alliances? :
The European Union is qualified to fight against the discriminations based on the ethnic origin and the sex and follows policies tending to carry out the equal opportunity between the women and the men. However, the foreign women or of foreign origin remain the poor relationships of the European policies of equal opportunity women/men and of those concerning the fight against specific discriminations and their claims are represented little within ONG European.
The structuring on the European level of the movement of the immigrant women would make it possible to enrich the feminist movement, by supporting connections between the feminist organizations “traditional” and those of the immigrant women on the one hand, by offering the possibility of the development of transnational organizations in the context of the globalisation, on the other hand.
Laetitia Dechaufour, Doctorante with the engine (Kind, Work and Mobility) under the direction of Daniele Kergoat Paris 8 - Saint-Denis.
Feminists resulting from immigration postcoloniale, between rupture and continuity:
Within the framework of a reflexion on feminisms and universalization, it will be a question of posing the bases of a reflexion in progress on the possibilities of the class action suit in a context of depoliticization of the memberships of class. Thus, starting from the first work of ground in Quebec on the fights of the Amerindian women, and of a work of ground in progress near feminist groups resulting from immigration postcoloniale in France, I will try to show that the activism of militant racized constitutes a space of redefinition of feminism in the light of the stakes which confront them as women and not-white. While choosing to gather between women, and to start from their experiments of women to denounce combined oppressions of which they are victims, they fit fully in the French feminist movement and reconsider the oppression of the women starting from a positioning in the social reports/ratios of class, race and sex, whose interests and conditions of oppression are dynamic and can be contradictory.
Workshop 6: Friday October 5, 14 hours-16 hours, room 111. Review Books of the kind
Feminisms and antifeminisms: old and new questions
Presidency: Josette Trat, Lecturer at the University of Paris 8 and Roland Pfefferkorn, professor of sociology in Strasbourg.
The workshop will fall under the problems of the collective book (under dir it. J. Trat, D. Lamoureux, R. Pfefferkorn): The autonomy of the women in question, Antiféminismes and resistances in America and Europe. Harmattan. “Library of feminism”, 2006.
Diane Lamoureux, Professeure, Department of political science, Laval University, Quebec (Canada)
New right-hand sides and return of the familialism to Canada and Quebec:
Canada and Quebec live from now on per hour of conservative governments which stress special on the traditional hétérosexuelle family. This causes the development of new forms of antifeminism and the Draconian cuts and the fundamental reorientations in the governmental programs of support for the groups of women.
Monika Wator, Doctorante of sociology under the direction of J.Heinen, University of
Versailles Saint-Quentin.
When to make children is a public affair, to educate them an private affair. The IVG and early childhood: the case of Poland:
In this communication, it will be a question of analyzing the recent measurements and attempts to solidify the right to the IVG and to draw up an inventory of fixtures of the reception facilities of early childhood. A rapid glance on these two fields of the public policies is enough to understand that the current government coalition chose to deal with the child as of his design but to discharge some once it was born. It is the impact of such a posture and ultracatholic ideology on the social reports/ratios of sex which will be in the center of this intervention.
Andrea Barge, Auteure of one entitled book Elas Somos Our, O direito ao Aborto como Reivindicaçao Democratica E Cidada, will present the debates to us which surrounded the fight in favour of the right to the abortion in Portugal in the last years
Workshop 7: Friday October 5, 2007. 16 hours -18 hours, room 111.
Classify, sex and race in the Caribbean: a paradigm of universalization
President: Elsa Dorlin, University lecturer of Philosophy, Paris I
Arlette Gauthier, Professeure of sociology, Department of Sociology University of Western Brittany.
Reproductive and sexual rights to Haiti: face sinks of advanced modernity:
The slavery and the standardization of the women were the dark phase of the modernity of the Lights. Today, Haiti, “the freest country in the world” according to the commander of the MINUSTAH, since it exists neither taxes there, nor Rule of law or social state if not of pure form, isn't it also the dark face of” fluid “modernity? And which are the consequences for the women and particularly for the reproductive and sexual rights, which are the 4th generation of the rights, after the civil laws, the policies and socio-economic and most representative of advanced modernity? To answer this question, will be mobilized various statistical and qualitative surveys carried out in Haiti as well as talks carried out with representatives of several ministries, feminist associations and agencies of the United Nations at the time of a stay in Haiti in April 2007. These data show the development of sexual violences by armed gangs but also by groups of youth who are given for objective to punish the young girls having behaviors except standards, but also the degradation of the fundamental indicators of maternal death and access to the care. The answers brought by the various social actors will be also examined.
Stéphanie Guyon, Doctorante with the EHESS, Center Maurice Halbwachs,
Kind and fights autochtones: local scene with the international scene:
This intervention will relate to the Amerindian movement of French Guiana. Through the study of the trajectory of 5 representing Amerindian implied in the Amerindian movement at the local and/or international level, we will describe the social reports/ratios of sex which structure the Amerindian movement in Guyana. We will see in which conditions the kind can constitute a resource and make it possible these women to reach responsibilities on the international scene and in return to increase their legitimacy on the local scene.
Caroline Oudin-Country house, Professor of Economic scenes and social.
The place of the women in the division of the servile labour (Guadeloupe, Martinique, XVII ème XIXème):
Slavery, according to Claude Meillassoux, generates a desocialisation leading to a desexualisation which appears in particular by a lack of differentiation of the tasks and prerogatives reserved for the individuals of the two sexes. Can one consider that such a desexualisation characterizes the division of the servile labour in the slave company of French Windward Islands?
To answer this question, the position of the women in social and technical division - as well vertical as horizontal - servile work in the Guadeloupe and Martinique will be analyzed. Position with the indissociable remainder, in a company dominated by the “prejudice of color”, on the one hand of the origin (African or creole), on the other hand racized group of membership (negro or mongrel).
Workshop 8: Saturday October 6, 2007. 9:30 - 11h30, room 111.
Feminisms in the post-colony
President: Muriel Andriocci, Doctorante in Sociology
Sarah Brake, Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow, Utrecht University (Women' S Studies), University off California, Santa Cruz (Anthropology).
Antigone, the veil and the Republic:
French interpretations of Antigone tend to show the heroin of individualism vis-a-vis the civic and public order. To think the act of resistance of Antigone, which is asserted unceasingly in connection with filiation and the gods, like an “individual” act, requires a radical purging. This purging of practices, experiments, knowledge, ethics and épistèmes which is not aligned with, nor recognized in, a civic order and public bench, offers a manner of including/understanding the secular one and the mode of secularity. In this contribution I am based on a long feminist engagement with Antigone to examine the discussions on the Islamic veil. I trace the manners by which the dichotomy of secular (public) the versus the monk (private) is articulated with the colonial policies and postcoloniales.
Jules Falquet, Mistress of conferences in sociology at the University of Paris Diderot
Universalization and D-articulation of the social reports/ratios of sex, “race” and class: paradoxes and die-naturalization of the classes:
Universalization is a complex phenomenon and certainly less new than it appears to with it. However, this universalization, néolibérale, imply deep transformations in the organization of work, as well on the international plan as on the national plan and “microphone” (“community”, domestic unit). One will analyze here the way in which the social reports/ratios of sex, of “race” and of class harden, but also how they D-are articulated. Today more than ever, through the three figures of the servant without papers, of the “email order attaches” and migrant which male prostitute, one will see that it is important of dénaturaliser the categories of sex, class and “race” for better including/understanding a whole of paradoxical figures. Because there exist “women” passed in the social class of the men, of the men in the class of the women, the “race” more depends each time on the migratory policies and less on the phenotype. However, to take again and widen the remarks of Nicole Claude Mathieu (1989), “undoubtedly has there it kinds “man-women”, but at the base and the bottom of the scale of the kinds, it there has many females”, and undoubtedly exists it a “racism without race”, but at the top of the scale, it is always the white skin which one finds.
Myriam Paris, Doctorante in philosophy, University Paris 8 Denis Saint.
Maroon bodies: memories of the fights and slavery with the Meeting:
One classically opposes the colonial account and his corpus of files to the words confiscated, disseminated, lost, illocalisables of dominated. This dichotomy between writing and orality, truth and fable, history and memory, is one of the forms of the colonial report/ratio of domination and constitutes a major stake for the historiography of resistances. The colonial account reduced the men and the women slaves to wild, dumb, mutilated bodies, dispossessed of themselves, exhibant through them the program and the plantocratic power.
If these bodies were the main targets of the slave capacities, they correlatively constituted of the sites of resistance and in particular, through the ritual ones, ceremonies, dances and songs, spaces allowing the formation, the sedimentation and the transmission of collective memories of the fights.
Based on an analysis of the relationship between body and memory, this communication proposes to apprehend resistances of the women to colonization and slavery by questioning the traditional dichotomy opposing the prolixity of dominant and the silence of dominated.
Workshop 9: Saturday October 6, 2007. 11:30 - 13h30, room 111.
Feminisms, alter mondialism and Utopias
Presidency: Daniele Kergoat, Sociologist, Research director at CNRS, engine
Emilie Chops, Doctorante in political science at the University of Paris 8
Denis saint.
Starhawk, the ritual and the policy. To make of the policy differently, to remake of the Policy:
In this paper, I would like to think with the movement American activist of which Starhawk forms part, of the practical policy, so that it is that “to make” of the policy, so that it is that “to practise” the policy. For the modern Westerners of which I inherit, there are two things which strike these activists in practice: first of all, the ritual, practical policy like the result of a preparation, a ritual (cf its descriptions of the tops of Embarrassment, Seattle); and then, their claim of réarticuler the religion with their practical policy, like a left-wing policy proposal legitimate. The object of this intervention is to suspend the rejection and the judgment which hold place generally of” bond “with the traditional left to question on the one hand this” spontaneous “reaction and to wonder, on the contrary, on the other hand, which joins together us, since, in fact, we find ourselves on the same fights. In other words, couldn't we learn how from them to remake of the policy?
Maria Puig of International Bellacasa, Marie Curie Fellow (Universit3e libre de Bruxelles (GECO) /University off California, Santa Cruz (Farming Studies).
The Utopia it is here and now: materialism, constructivism and fabulation in the policies of the feminist knowledge:
One of the things which one can learn from feminism is to be been wary of the promises of the future of the revolution. Without giving up the hope in the future, the feminist policies affirm the radical immanence of the political task, thus diverging from the abstract and edifying visions of the Utopia. They show that the work of the Utopia is done here and now, in a practice of the “care” which resists temptation to forget the complications of our lives, in collective inventiveness vis-a-vis concrete and material dead ends. I explore this political sensibility with opens in the politico-epistemological discussion on the promises that minority knowledge can constitute for the construction of other possible knowledge. The feminism of the “standpoint”, version at the same time materialist and speculative of these policies of the knowledge, played a crucial role in the development of a political constructivism within the approach of the knowledge. Inspired by the way in which Gave Haraway prolongs this tradition and by the approach of the constructivism in the thought of Isabelle Stengers, I approach the speculative dimension of this tradition and the aspiration with other accounts, with other fabulations, which resist the watchwords.
Eleni Varikas, political Professeure of theory and studies on the kind, University Paris 8 Denis Saint.
Eleni Varikas, political Professeure of theory and studies on the kind, University Paris 8 Denis Saint.
REVIEWS:
Two reviews of feminist studies take part in the congress
Books of the Kind
Contact: Josette Trat, jos-trat@club-internet.fr
Friday October 5, 2007. 14 hours-16 hours, room 111.
“Feminisms and antifeminisms: old and new questions”
Work, kind and companies
Contact: Isabelle Puech, isabelle.puech@noos.fr
Friday October 5, 2007. 9 hours -11heures, room 111.
“The damage of economic violence”