Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism Across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey : Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Transnationalizing Feminist and LGBTI+ Activisms in Russia, the Scandinavian Countries, and Turkey -- Varieties of Modernization in the Early Twentieth Century -- Cold War Rivalries and Transnational Organizing -- Contemporary Contestations of Gender Equality and Sexual Rights -- Navigating Contested Terms -- Multi-scalar Transnational Methodology -- Fieldwork in/on Russia -- Fieldwork in the Scandinavian Countries -- Fieldwork in Turkey -- Positionality and Ethical Concerns -- Chapter Outline -- References -- 2 Transnational Spaces of Resistance -- Scaling Resistance -- Transnational Civil Society: Between Co-optation and Resistance -- Promises and Pitfalls of Transnational Solidarity -- From Individual Bodies to Transnational Organizing: Beyond the Dichotomy of Visibility-Invisibility -- References -- 3 Transforming Conditions of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism -- Contextualizing Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism: State-Civil Society Contestations -- Russia: Activists' Mobilization in Response to Repressive State Practices -- Turkey: Coping with the State Through In/Formal Organizing -- Scandinavian Countries: Civil Society as Extended Arm of State and the Invisibility of Marginalized Actors -- Marketization and Tensions Within Transnational Civil Society -- International Collaborations Beyond the East-West Divide -- Majority/Minority Divides -- Regional/Metropolitan Belongings -- (Un)doing Donor Politics -- Funding Policies and the Agenda of Activist Work -- Salaries: Between Passion and Profession -- Resisting Donor Hegemonies -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Solidarities Across: Borders, Belongings, Movements -- De/stabilizing Divides Through Transnational Solidarities.

Dissonances Across the (Imagined) West and Non-West -- Challenging Regional and Geopolitical Belongings -- Hymn Singing and Anti-Colonial Resistance: Solidarity as Shared Labor -- Practices of Faith as Solidarity Work -- Material and Symbolic Redistribution Through Shared Labor -- The Role of Religion in Justice Struggles -- Ambivalences of Transnational Campaigns -- Local Implications of Global Campaigns and Disputes Over Feminism -- Complicity and Responsibility in Cross-Border Solidarity -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Spaces of Appearance and the Right to Appear: March 8 in Local Bodily Assemblies -- Multi-Sited Ethnography in  Relation to March 8 -- International Women's Day in Sweden -- International Women's Day in Russia -- International Women's Day in Turkey -- Struggles for the Right to Appear -- March 8 in Sweden: Agency, Visibility, and the Role of Feminism in the Hood -- March 8 in Russia: Claiming the Right to Appear -- March 8 in Istanbul: Struggles Over Anonymous Visibility -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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