TY - JOUR
T1 - LATINX FEMINIST POLITICMAKING
T2 - On the NECESSITY of MESSINESS in COLLECTIVE ACTION*
AU - García, Rocío R.
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* Rocío R. García is an assistant professor of sociology in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Please direct correspondence to: rocio.r.garcia@asu.edu. † I thank California Latinas for Reproductive Justice for gifting me the opportunity to learn about reproductive justice from their standpoints. I am grateful to the village of incredible scholars who provided encouraging feedback on earlier drafts of this manuscript and to the anonymous reviewers and editors of Mobilization for their insightful comments. Previous versions of this article were presented at the American Sociological Association conference and at the Emerging Scholars Program symposium in the Department of Sociology at Boston University. Support for this research comes from the Mellon Foundation’s Inter-University Program for Latino Research, the American Sociological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and the UC Collabor-atory for Ethnographic Design.
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PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - There is an ongoing debate in the sociology of collective action on the function of difference—often measured as group diversity—in mobilization. While some scholarship suggests that difference is often an impediment to collective action, other research finds that activisms attuned to difference can produce more flexible mobilization capable of tackling converging oppressions. To understand the meanings and negotiations of difference in collective action, this article examines how Latinx feminists do intersectionality in the movement for reproductive justice (RJ). Drawing on three years of ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with a Latina/x reproductive justice organization in California, I argue that staff of the organization engage in contextual, relational, and cultural shift practices that together create a fluid sensibility, what I term “politicmaking,” focused on negotiating difference as a necessarily fraught and messy endeavor. The “politicmaking” of movement actors suggests the need to reexamine the role of difference in collective action.
AB - There is an ongoing debate in the sociology of collective action on the function of difference—often measured as group diversity—in mobilization. While some scholarship suggests that difference is often an impediment to collective action, other research finds that activisms attuned to difference can produce more flexible mobilization capable of tackling converging oppressions. To understand the meanings and negotiations of difference in collective action, this article examines how Latinx feminists do intersectionality in the movement for reproductive justice (RJ). Drawing on three years of ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with a Latina/x reproductive justice organization in California, I argue that staff of the organization engage in contextual, relational, and cultural shift practices that together create a fluid sensibility, what I term “politicmaking,” focused on negotiating difference as a necessarily fraught and messy endeavor. The “politicmaking” of movement actors suggests the need to reexamine the role of difference in collective action.
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U2 - 10.17813/1086-671X-25-4-441
DO - 10.17813/1086-671X-25-4-441
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111924447
SN - 1086-671X
VL - 25
SP - 441
EP - 460
JO - Mobilization
JF - Mobilization
IS - 4
ER -