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Mobilisation against nuclear weapons in Scotland is surprisingly under-researched. In that light,... more Mobilisation against nuclear weapons in Scotland is surprisingly under-researched. In that light, this chapter offers a preliminary account of anti-nuclear/peace campaigning in Scotland and its contribution to nuclear politics in the UK. It asks: in what ways and to what degree is such campaigning in Scotland distinguishable from that south of the border? And what is its relevance today, in the context of continued constitutional uncertainty and the looming 'Main Gate' decision on Trident renewal? The chapter argues for the existence of a distinct Scottish peace movement −one, moreover, that is likely to play a continuing role in symbolising and channelling opposition to the UK nuclear state in Scotland.
Political Studies
In the context of efforts to revive and reconfigure the left, fraught solidarity relations betwee... more In the context of efforts to revive and reconfigure the left, fraught solidarity relations between feminism and other left forces are again under the political spotlight. This article revisits the widespread use of the ‘unhappy marriage’ metaphor to characterise these relations, given that metaphors play a significant role in structuring political discourse and action. We argue that the metaphor has been used in uncritical and limiting ways, and turn to feminist reconfigurations of the institutions of marriage to develop a more expansive, reflexive conceptual lens. We then apply this lens to three case studies of left organising in Scotland around the time of the 2012–2014 Scottish independence referendum, showing that the expanded marriage metaphor captures a more complex story of solidarity relations. Nonetheless, aspects of the marriage metaphor remain irredeemable, and we end with a call for the continued development of alternative frameworks that imagine political solidarity di...
Security Dialogue
This article extends the emergent focus on ‘the everyday’ in critical security studies to the top... more This article extends the emergent focus on ‘the everyday’ in critical security studies to the topic of nuclear (in)security, through an empirical study of anti-nuclear peace activists understood as ‘everyday security practitioners’. In the first part of the article, I elaborate on the notion of everyday security practitioners, drawing particularly on feminist scholarship, while in the second I apply this framework to a case study of Faslane Peace Camp in Scotland. I show that campers emphasize the everyday insecurities of people living close to the state’s nuclear weapons, the blurred boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’, and the inevitability of insecurity in daily life. Moreover, campers’ security practices confront the everyday reproduction of nuclear weapons and prefigure alternative modes of everyday life. In so doing, I argue, they offer a distinctive challenge to dominant deterrence discourse, one that is not only politically significant, but also expands understanding of the e...
European Journal of Politics and Gender
International Feminist Journal of Politics
Choice Reviews Online
In Global Democracy, Social Movements, and Feminism Catherine Eschle examines the relationship be... more In Global Democracy, Social Movements, and Feminism Catherine Eschle examines the relationship between social movements and democracy in social and political thought in the context of debates about the exclusions and mobilizations generated by gender ...
Choice Reviews Online
... Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii OPEC PS PT PUC Quango REDEH REMTE REPEM RSHR SAP SMO SOF TAN ... more ... Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii OPEC PS PT PUC Quango REDEH REMTE REPEM RSHR SAP SMO SOF TAN TINA TSMO WEDO WEN WGNRR WHRNet WICEJ WID WIDE WILPF WLUML WSF WTO Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries Parti Socialiste (Socialist ...
International Feminist Journal of Politics
Globalization and Social Movements, 2001
Since the ‘Battle of Seattle’ in 1999, resistance against the violences and exclusions associated... more Since the ‘Battle of Seattle’ in 1999, resistance against the violences and exclusions associated particularly with the economic dimensions of globalisation, or neoliberalism, have captured political imaginations worldwide and given rise to a distinct body of literature on the antiglobalization or global justice movement. This literature has grown exponentially since the turn of the century and is highly diverse. Across the board, however, commentators tend to position the global justice movement as post-identity, or, more specifically, as post-identity politics. The claim is that the global justice movement has transcended the identity politics of the 1980s in a return to an emphasis on material struggles and class politics, thus moving beyond a narrow focus on cultural representation and difference. I suggest in this chapter that such a characterisation of past and present activism has unfortunate political effects, in terms of narrowing the parameters of our understanding of the global justice movement and sidelining some key voices within it. In this chapter, I aim to show how arguments about identity developed in social movement theory, in general, have been or could be used to help make sense of the global justice movement, in particular. Bringing identity into the picture enables the differentiation of movements from unconnected protest events by drawing our attention to a sense of shared political endeavour over time and space. Focusing on identity also offers an alternative to the problems of a reductively rationalist, instrumental ontology which would see movements simply as a response to material incentives and an expression of the convergence of individual interests.
... AND KATHLEEN STAUDT 9 Organic intellectuals and counter-hegemonic politics in the age of glob... more ... AND KATHLEEN STAUDT 9 Organic intellectuals and counter-hegemonic politics in the age of globalisation: the case of ATTAC 154 VICKI BIRCHFIELD AND ANNETTE FREYBERG-INAN 10'We are heartbroken and furious!'Violence and the (anti-) globalisation movement (s ...
... environmental groups; campaigns against Third World debt; student anti-sweatshop activism in ... more ... environmental groups; campaigns against Third World debt; student anti-sweatshop activism in North America; struggles against the privatisation of utilities and basic resources; organised labour and trade unions (eg Bircham and Charlton 2001; Danaher and Burbach 2000 ...
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Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2004
... This latter tranche of work has largely sought to extend the compass of resource-mobilization... more ... This latter tranche of work has largely sought to extend the compass of resource-mobilization theory ... in a political or cultural conflict, on the basis of a shared collective identity." (66). The first point to note here is Diani's insistence that "social movements are not organizations, not ...
Mobilisation against nuclear weapons in Scotland is surprisingly under-researched. In that light,... more Mobilisation against nuclear weapons in Scotland is surprisingly under-researched. In that light, this chapter offers a preliminary account of anti-nuclear/peace campaigning in Scotland and its contribution to nuclear politics in the UK. It asks: in what ways and to what degree is such campaigning in Scotland distinguishable from that south of the border? And what is its relevance today, in the context of continued constitutional uncertainty and the looming 'Main Gate' decision on Trident renewal? The chapter argues for the existence of a distinct Scottish peace movement −one, moreover, that is likely to play a continuing role in symbolising and channelling opposition to the UK nuclear state in Scotland.
Political Studies
In the context of efforts to revive and reconfigure the left, fraught solidarity relations betwee... more In the context of efforts to revive and reconfigure the left, fraught solidarity relations between feminism and other left forces are again under the political spotlight. This article revisits the widespread use of the ‘unhappy marriage’ metaphor to characterise these relations, given that metaphors play a significant role in structuring political discourse and action. We argue that the metaphor has been used in uncritical and limiting ways, and turn to feminist reconfigurations of the institutions of marriage to develop a more expansive, reflexive conceptual lens. We then apply this lens to three case studies of left organising in Scotland around the time of the 2012–2014 Scottish independence referendum, showing that the expanded marriage metaphor captures a more complex story of solidarity relations. Nonetheless, aspects of the marriage metaphor remain irredeemable, and we end with a call for the continued development of alternative frameworks that imagine political solidarity di...
Security Dialogue
This article extends the emergent focus on ‘the everyday’ in critical security studies to the top... more This article extends the emergent focus on ‘the everyday’ in critical security studies to the topic of nuclear (in)security, through an empirical study of anti-nuclear peace activists understood as ‘everyday security practitioners’. In the first part of the article, I elaborate on the notion of everyday security practitioners, drawing particularly on feminist scholarship, while in the second I apply this framework to a case study of Faslane Peace Camp in Scotland. I show that campers emphasize the everyday insecurities of people living close to the state’s nuclear weapons, the blurred boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’, and the inevitability of insecurity in daily life. Moreover, campers’ security practices confront the everyday reproduction of nuclear weapons and prefigure alternative modes of everyday life. In so doing, I argue, they offer a distinctive challenge to dominant deterrence discourse, one that is not only politically significant, but also expands understanding of the e...
European Journal of Politics and Gender
International Feminist Journal of Politics
Choice Reviews Online
In Global Democracy, Social Movements, and Feminism Catherine Eschle examines the relationship be... more In Global Democracy, Social Movements, and Feminism Catherine Eschle examines the relationship between social movements and democracy in social and political thought in the context of debates about the exclusions and mobilizations generated by gender ...
Choice Reviews Online
... Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii OPEC PS PT PUC Quango REDEH REMTE REPEM RSHR SAP SMO SOF TAN ... more ... Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii OPEC PS PT PUC Quango REDEH REMTE REPEM RSHR SAP SMO SOF TAN TINA TSMO WEDO WEN WGNRR WHRNet WICEJ WID WIDE WILPF WLUML WSF WTO Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries Parti Socialiste (Socialist ...
International Feminist Journal of Politics
Globalization and Social Movements, 2001
Since the ‘Battle of Seattle’ in 1999, resistance against the violences and exclusions associated... more Since the ‘Battle of Seattle’ in 1999, resistance against the violences and exclusions associated particularly with the economic dimensions of globalisation, or neoliberalism, have captured political imaginations worldwide and given rise to a distinct body of literature on the antiglobalization or global justice movement. This literature has grown exponentially since the turn of the century and is highly diverse. Across the board, however, commentators tend to position the global justice movement as post-identity, or, more specifically, as post-identity politics. The claim is that the global justice movement has transcended the identity politics of the 1980s in a return to an emphasis on material struggles and class politics, thus moving beyond a narrow focus on cultural representation and difference. I suggest in this chapter that such a characterisation of past and present activism has unfortunate political effects, in terms of narrowing the parameters of our understanding of the global justice movement and sidelining some key voices within it. In this chapter, I aim to show how arguments about identity developed in social movement theory, in general, have been or could be used to help make sense of the global justice movement, in particular. Bringing identity into the picture enables the differentiation of movements from unconnected protest events by drawing our attention to a sense of shared political endeavour over time and space. Focusing on identity also offers an alternative to the problems of a reductively rationalist, instrumental ontology which would see movements simply as a response to material incentives and an expression of the convergence of individual interests.
... AND KATHLEEN STAUDT 9 Organic intellectuals and counter-hegemonic politics in the age of glob... more ... AND KATHLEEN STAUDT 9 Organic intellectuals and counter-hegemonic politics in the age of globalisation: the case of ATTAC 154 VICKI BIRCHFIELD AND ANNETTE FREYBERG-INAN 10'We are heartbroken and furious!'Violence and the (anti-) globalisation movement (s ...
... environmental groups; campaigns against Third World debt; student anti-sweatshop activism in ... more ... environmental groups; campaigns against Third World debt; student anti-sweatshop activism in North America; struggles against the privatisation of utilities and basic resources; organised labour and trade unions (eg Bircham and Charlton 2001; Danaher and Burbach 2000 ...
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 1461674022000031508, Dec 2, 2010
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2004
... This latter tranche of work has largely sought to extend the compass of resource-mobilization... more ... This latter tranche of work has largely sought to extend the compass of resource-mobilization theory ... in a political or cultural conflict, on the basis of a shared collective identity." (66). The first point to note here is Diani's insistence that "social movements are not organizations, not ...