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Unsettling Activisms
Critical Interventions on Aging, Gender, and Social Change
Edited by May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, Patricia Evans
August 2018
Print ISBN: 9780889616035
Overview
How and why do “ordinary” women and nonbinary people engage in various forms of social-change work at different times in their lives? What does it mean for these people to age as activists? Unsettling Activisms brings together insights from academics and activists in an intergenerational conversation that addresses these questions. Drawing on diverse lived experiences, including contributions from leading feminist and age studies scholars, this volume investigates how powerful, interlocking forms of difference such as gender, class, race, ability, ethnicity, sexuality, and Indigeneity, shape the meaning and experience of both ageing and activism. This vital resource consists of eight analytic chapters and eight vibrant reflective pieces, alongside poignant poetry and photography. This collection is best suited for undergraduate and graduate courses in gender studies, activist and social movement studies, and age and aging studies.
Promoting the Health of Older Adults
Irving Rootman, Peggy Edwards, Mélanie Levasseur, Frances Grunberg
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction Amplifying Activisms
May Chazan
PART I PLURALIZING
Poem I: Grandmother
waaseyaa’sin christine sy
Introduction to Part I: Pluralizing
Carole Roy
Chapter 1: Rethinking the Politics of (Grand)Mothering: Activisms and the Lifecourse
May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, and Jesse Whattam
Reflection 1: “Climbing into My Granny Pants”: Reflections from a Grandmother Activist
Peggy Edwards
Chapter 2: Activist Aging: The Tactical Theatrics of RECAA
Kim Sawchuk and Constance Lafontaine
Reflection 2: Continuity and Change: A Personal Reflection on Activism Across Time and Space
Sadeqa Siddiqui
PART II PERSISTING
Poem II: Firekeeper
Keara Lightning
Introduction to Part II: Persisting
waaseyaa’sin christine sy
Chapter 3: “That’s My Bridge”: Water Protector, Knowledge Holder, Language Professor
Elder Shirley Ida Williams Pheasant
Reflection 3 “And Then We Let Them Go, and We Have Their Backs”
Monique Mojica
Chapter 4: Settler Solidarities and the Limits of “Granny Activism”
May Chazan
Reflection 4: Learning to Listen: a Half Century of Walking with First Peoples
Jean Koning
PART III EMBODYING
Poem III: This Mouth
Niambi Leigh
Introduction to Part III: Embodying
Sally Chivers
Chapter 5: Strengthening Our Activisms by Creating Intersectional Spaces for the Personal, the Professional, Disability, and Aging
Nadine Changfoot, Mary Anne Ansley, and Andrea Dodsworth
Reflection 5: Words, Work, and Wonder: Poeting toward Midlife
Ziy von B
Chapter 6: The Raging Grannies Versus the Sexperts: Performing Humour to Resist Compulsory (Hetero)sexuality
Marlene Goldman, May Chazan, and Melissa Baldwin
Reflection 6: (In)Visible: Photographing Older Women
Maureen Murphy and Ruth Steinberg
PART IV REMEMBERING
Poem IV: Lip Point for Bearded Womxn
waaseyaa’sin christine sy
Introduction to Part IV: Remembering
Laura Madokoro
Chapter 7: Activist Archiving and the Feminist Movement in Mexico: Collecting Art and Ephemera as Political Practice
Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
Reflection 7: Activist Aging on the Airwaves: Radical Reflections on the Community Radio Show Aging Radically
Melissa Baldwin and Maddy Macnab
Chapter 8: Intergenerational Interventions: Archiving the Grandmothers Advocacy Network
Pat Evans, Sharon Swanson, May Chazan, and Melissa Baldwin
Reflection 8: Following Nan to the Kiji sibi
Jenn Cole
Closing Activist Theirstories and the Future of Aging Activisms
May Chazan, Melissa Baldwin, and Pat Evans
Contributor Biographies
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