Community-Led Housing in Yangon: The Struggles of Non-Confrontational Resistance and Feminist Crisis Management

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Kouri Marina Kolovou, Shoko Sakuma, C. Ortiz
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Abstract

In this article, we draw on community-led housing, non-confrontational resistance, and feminist crisis management literature to analyse the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the military coup in a community-led housing scheme in Yangon, Myanmar. Based on the direct involvement with a women's grassroots network and a local NGO between 2018 and 2022, we focus on the impacts of the double crisis on low-income populations, their responses to overlapping challenges, the emergent forms of mutual care, and the extra and intra-community learnings. We argue that, in the context of authoritarian regimes, community-led housing practices constitute a modality of non-confrontational resistance that, in times of crisis, revealed how collective housing members had an important safety net-in material, emotional, and social terms—sustained through collective mobilisation and mutual care. This analysis contributes to expanding the debates on housing justice struggles, non-confrontational resistance, and care from the standpoint of grassroots women's organisations.
仰光社区主导的住房:非对抗性抵抗和女权主义危机管理的斗争
在本文中,我们借鉴了社区主导的住房、非对抗性抵抗和女权主义危机管理文献,分析了缅甸仰光社区主导的住房计划对COVID-19大流行和军事政变的反应。在2018年至2022年期间,我们直接参与了一个妇女基层网络和一个当地非政府组织,重点关注双重危机对低收入人群的影响,他们对重叠挑战的反应,相互照顾的新形式,以及社区外和社区内的学习。我们认为,在专制政权的背景下,社区主导的住房实践构成了一种非对抗性抵抗的模式,在危机时期,它揭示了集体住房成员如何通过集体动员和相互照顾来维持物质、情感和社会方面的重要安全网。这一分析有助于从基层妇女组织的角度扩大关于住房正义斗争、非对抗性抵抗和关怀的辩论。
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Partecipazione e Conflitto
Partecipazione e Conflitto POLITICAL SCIENCE-
CiteScore
2.00
自引率
12.50%
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0
审稿时长
6 weeks
期刊介绍: PArtecipazione e COnflitto [PArticipation and COnflict] is an International Journal based in Italy specialized in social and political studies. PACO houses research and studies on the transformations of politics and its key players (political parties, interest groups, social movements, associations, unions, etc.), focusing in particular on the dynamics of participation both by individuals acting in conventional ways, and by those who prefer protest-oriented repertoires of action. Special attention is also paid to the dynamics of transformation of contemporary political systems, with an eye fixed on the processes of democratization besides on the spaces opening to the new forms of governance both at local and sub-national, and supra-national level. All are inscribed in that complex phenomenon represented by the trans-nationalization of social, political and economic processes, without neglecting the nation-state dimension. The journal emphasizes innovative studies and research of high methodological rigor, treasuring of the most recent theoretical and empirical contributions in social and political sciences.
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