The march for gender equality of Algerian women: The struggle for spatial and historical recognition
通过民族志调查阿尔及利亚民主运动Hirak(2019-2021),研究女性在其中的经历,揭示她们尽管参与广泛且受赞扬,但在政治、经济和社会上仍被边缘化,并运用承认理论分析女性争取承认的斗争中的空间与历史维度。
Abstract Social and political anti‐government movements have been major headlines across the globe in recent years, with a noticeable participation of women. In the MENA region, such movements spanned Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Lebanon among others. Through an ethnographic inquiry into the Algerian pro‐democracy movement Hirak (2019–2021), we delve into women's experiences of the Hirak to show how women remain marginalized politically, economically, and socially despite their heavy and praised participation. Using a recognition theory lens, we unveil dialectics of unity and division in the struggle for recognition among women in Algeria, a post‐colonial context charged with conflicting ideological stances. We detect two structural dimensions of the struggle, a spatial/physical dimension and a historical/temporal dimension that help surface different gender positionalities and their dynamics as they vie for recognition. We stress the importance of not homogenizing women's political struggles, especially in the Global South.