The Ngo-Ization of Social Movements in Neoliberal Times: Contemporary Feminisms in Romania and Belgium

ISBN-13: 9783031451300 / Angielski

Alexandra Ana

Spis treści

1. Feminist movements in neoliberal times: between states, markets and global politics

2. An historical overview of the feminist movements in Belgium and Romania

3. Institutionalizing feminism: inclusion and marginalization

4. Participation in official settings: between co-optation and resistance

5. The routinization of collective action beyond demobilization and depoliticization

6. The professionalization of the feminist movements

7. Neoliberal bureaucratization within feminist movement organizations

8. Dynamics of precarization: financial dependence and burnout within the feminist movements

9. NGO-ization – a neoliberal mode of governance of civil society

O autorze

Alexandra Ana is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, working on resistance to anti-gender movements and politics, within a decolonial framework and from a comparative perspective. In 2023, she won a National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) postdoctoral scholarship with a project titled “Strange bedfellows and unholy alliances: the role of coalitions in conservative movements”, based on a comparative study between the UK, France and Romania. She previously taught gender, urban, visual and general sociology at Sciences Po. Her recent publications focus on feminist movements, coalitions and resistance.

Blurb

Drawing on theories in politics, sociology, gender and feminist studies, and social movement studies, this book compares and contrasts NGO-ized feminist organizations and informal street feminist groups in Belgium and Romania in order to understand the transformation of modern and contemporary feminist movements. Chapters trace the development of this NGO-ization process and its entanglements with neoliberal modes of governance and techniques and proposes an historically and empirically grounded analytical model to studying the NGO-ization of feminist movements as a multidimensional process. By analyzing the NGO-ization process through a cross-national comparison based on very different cases, the book disentangles the links between institutionalization, professionalization, bureaucratization and precarization and brings clarifications concerning the outcomes associated with them, such as demobilization, depoliticization, co-optation and burn-out. This book places the NGO-ization of feminist movement organizations within the specific context of relations between the state and the market in neoliberalism.

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers across Gender & Feminist Studies, Social Movements, Sociology, and Politics.

Alexandra Ana is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, working on resistance to anti-gender movements and politics, within a decolonial framework and from a comparative perspective. In 2023, she won a National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) postdoctoral scholarship with a project titled “Strange bedfellows and unholy alliances: the role of coalitions in conservative movements”, based on a comparative study between the UK, France and Romania. She previously taught gender, urban, visual and general sociology at Sciences Po. Her recent publications focus on feminist movements, coalitions and resistance.