feminist advocacy

This paper analyses how organising-oriented women’s cooperatives in Türkiye, founded largely by women from lower socio-economic backgrounds, have evolved into sites of grassroots advocacy where marginalised women articulate collective interests. The analysis draws on semi-structured interviews with 15 cooperatives, alongside documents from women’s cooperative meetings. Building on Bayat’s (2000, 2013) framework of quiet encroachment, and […]

This article examines the strategies, dilemmas, and hybrid forms of feminist advocacy advanced by the South Sudan Women’s Coalition for Peace (SSWCP) during and after the 2017–2018 high-level revitalised forum peace process. It traces how the coalition mobilised across borders and strategically inserted itself into liberal, elite-dominated negotiation spaces, while simultaneously engaging grassroots actors through […]