Engendering the prefigurative: Feminist praxes that bridge a politics of prefigurement and survival
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Lin, Cynthia S.
Pykett, Alisa A.
Flanagan, Constance
Chávez, Karma R.
Abstract / Description
Prefigurative politics are typically understood as experiments in living, laboring or provisioning that are alternatives to ‘what is’ and prefigure ‘what could be.’ This paper rethinks prefigurative politics, which scholars have often approached by emphasizing their economic and political structures, not the transformation of social relationships and power in these experiments. Despite this scholarly trend, many collectivities organizing around a politics of survival engage in prefigurative practices. In fact, in the process of resisting domination, they are re-imagining social relationships and power. In this paper, we draw on women of color feminist theory to explore the tensions of practicing principled politics and social justice in the deeply compromised spaces of struggle for those groups that act in the radical in-between of prefigurative politics and the politics of survival. By analyzing a reproductive justice organizing project called ‘We are BRAVE’ as a case study, we re-imagine prefigurative politics through three central elements: relationality, self-determination, and intersectionality.
Keyword(s)
politics of survival relationality self-determination intersectionality We are BRAVE radical homeplaces theory in the flesh coalition as thirdspacePersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2016-05-24
Journal title
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Volume
4
Issue
1
Page numbers
302–317
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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peerReviewed
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Lin, C. S., Pykett, A. A., Flanagan, C., & Chávez, K. R. (2016). Engendering the prefigurative: Feminist praxes that bridge a politics of prefigurement and survival. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 4(1), 302–317. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v4i1.537
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Lin, Cynthia S.
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Pykett, Alisa A.
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Flanagan, Constance
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Chávez, Karma R.
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Date of first publication2016-05-24
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Abstract / DescriptionPrefigurative politics are typically understood as experiments in living, laboring or provisioning that are alternatives to ‘what is’ and prefigure ‘what could be.’ This paper rethinks prefigurative politics, which scholars have often approached by emphasizing their economic and political structures, not the transformation of social relationships and power in these experiments. Despite this scholarly trend, many collectivities organizing around a politics of survival engage in prefigurative practices. In fact, in the process of resisting domination, they are re-imagining social relationships and power. In this paper, we draw on women of color feminist theory to explore the tensions of practicing principled politics and social justice in the deeply compromised spaces of struggle for those groups that act in the radical in-between of prefigurative politics and the politics of survival. By analyzing a reproductive justice organizing project called ‘We are BRAVE’ as a case study, we re-imagine prefigurative politics through three central elements: relationality, self-determination, and intersectionality.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationLin, C. S., Pykett, A. A., Flanagan, C., & Chávez, K. R. (2016). Engendering the prefigurative: Feminist praxes that bridge a politics of prefigurement and survival. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 4(1), 302–317. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v4i1.537en_US
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ISSN2195-3325
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1407
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1781
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v4i1.537
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Keyword(s)politics of survivalen_US
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Keyword(s)relationalityen_US
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Keyword(s)self-determinationen_US
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Keyword(s)intersectionalityen_US
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Keyword(s)We are BRAVEen_US
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Keyword(s)radical homeplacesen_US
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Keyword(s)theory in the fleshen_US
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Keyword(s)coalition as thirdspaceen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleEngendering the prefigurative: Feminist praxes that bridge a politics of prefigurement and survivalen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue1
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Journal titleJournal of Social and Political Psychology
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Page numbers302–317
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Volume4
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