04/03/2025
Author: Tayrine dos Santos Dias
Programme: Doctoral Programme in Information and Knowledge Society
Idioma: English
Supervision: Arnau Monterde, Ricardo Mendoça
Faculty / Institute: Doctoral School UOC
Subjects: Communications
Key words: Feminist mobilization, Disidentification, Political practices, Political action
Area of knowledge: Information and Knowledge Society
Abstract:
The 2018 and 2019 Feminist Strikes in Spain were a multitudinous eventful mobilizing process, in which activists engaged in assembling work and reconfigured feminist activisms to build societal change. The Strikes were organized reclaiming the classic form of repertoire, bringing together heterogenous activist cultures, practices and perspectives. By conducting a case study based on participant observation online and offline, interviews and documents, I conducted a thick description, built typologies and weaved a feminist interpretive understanding of the Feminist Strikes and the reconfigurations of activisms constructed in this process. The Feminist Strikes are an innovative and powerful expansive reinterpretation of a strike, while these multiple meanings were disputed among heterogeneous groups. Activists reconfigured feminist activisms as collectives struggled to disidentify from oppressive roles and reconstitute collective subjects. To understand those reconfigurations, tensions and cracks, I proposed a three-layered analysis, focused on the interactions, practices and political projects.