Gender, Populism and Collective Identity: a Feminist Analysis of the Maoist Movement in Nepal
<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">This article examines the construction of gender agendas in left-...
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| description | <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">This article examines the construction of gender agendas in left-wing populist movements that mobilise for armed struggle, by focusing on the case of the Maoist movement in Nepal. Feminist scholarship has highlighted how left-wing populism, when appealing to a generalized “people”, tend to produce homogenizing discourses that erase inequalities and difference, even when such movements </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">integrate a gender dimension. Examining the trajectory of the Maoist movement over time, we argue that </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">this ‘sameness’ may become contested and utilized by women participating in the lower echelons of the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">movement, as the political reality shifts from conflict to post-conflict context. As our main contribution, we develop a bi-directional approach that employs the concept of collective identity and allows us to examine the construction of populist agendas as a two-way interaction between the leadership of a movement and </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">its grass roots supporters. Through this approach we show how the gender dimension was not merely a </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">bi-product but central to both the construction of the Maoist movement’s war time ‘progressive’ identity, and the fragmentation of this identity and the movement’s populist appeal in the post-conflict context. </span></p></div></div></div> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4ed74f765dc04a57a506af607d5c67282023-12-24T12:38:50ZengLibrellophJournal of Human Security1835-38002022-08-01182354610.12924/johs2022.18020035220Gender, Populism and Collective Identity: a Feminist Analysis of the Maoist Movement in NepalHeidi Riley0Hanna Ketola1Punam Yadav2School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandDepartment of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, EnglandInstitute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, London, England<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">This article examines the construction of gender agendas in left-wing populist movements that mobilise for armed struggle, by focusing on the case of the Maoist movement in Nepal. Feminist scholarship has highlighted how left-wing populism, when appealing to a generalized “people”, tend to produce homogenizing discourses that erase inequalities and difference, even when such movements </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">integrate a gender dimension. Examining the trajectory of the Maoist movement over time, we argue that </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">this ‘sameness’ may become contested and utilized by women participating in the lower echelons of the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">movement, as the political reality shifts from conflict to post-conflict context. As our main contribution, we develop a bi-directional approach that employs the concept of collective identity and allows us to examine the construction of populist agendas as a two-way interaction between the leadership of a movement and </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">its grass roots supporters. Through this approach we show how the gender dimension was not merely a </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'NimbusSanL';">bi-product but central to both the construction of the Maoist movement’s war time ‘progressive’ identity, and the fragmentation of this identity and the movement’s populist appeal in the post-conflict context. </span></p></div></div></div>http://www.librelloph.com/journalofhumansecurity/article/view/709conflictfeminismex-combatantgenderidentitynepalpopulism |
| spellingShingle | Heidi Riley Hanna Ketola Punam Yadav Gender, Populism and Collective Identity: a Feminist Analysis of the Maoist Movement in Nepal Journal of Human Security conflict feminism ex-combatant gender identity nepal populism |
| title | Gender, Populism and Collective Identity: a Feminist Analysis of the Maoist Movement in Nepal |
| title_full | Gender, Populism and Collective Identity: a Feminist Analysis of the Maoist Movement in Nepal |
| title_fullStr | Gender, Populism and Collective Identity: a Feminist Analysis of the Maoist Movement in Nepal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender, Populism and Collective Identity: a Feminist Analysis of the Maoist Movement in Nepal |
| title_short | Gender, Populism and Collective Identity: a Feminist Analysis of the Maoist Movement in Nepal |
| title_sort | gender populism and collective identity a feminist analysis of the maoist movement in nepal |
| topic | conflict feminism ex-combatant gender identity nepal populism |
| url | http://www.librelloph.com/journalofhumansecurity/article/view/709 |
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