Globalized social justice directly speaks to my research
that is questioning the ethics of
globalization. Similarly to Nancy Fraser who critiques the effects of
globalization I have provided concrete material from oral histories that
illuminate those individual that have been made invisible by globalization. Nancy
Fraser provides a three dimensional approach to critically think about global
justice. The rise of globalized capitalism and the
opening of borders for transnational
corporations and large institutional investors necessitates the urgency to
think about justice beyond the nation state. Globalization has resulted in the misrepresentation
(Nancy def) of people of color all over the world. It continues to politically,
economically, and socially exclude them. Nancy Fraser critiques theories of “misframing and meta-political misrepresentation stating that
it discloses core injustices overlooked by standard theories. She states to focuse “not only on the ‘what’
of justice, but also on the ‘who’ and the ‘how’, it enables us to grasp the
question of the frame as the central question of justice in a globalizing world”.
In my research I attempting to bring out the affects
globalization has had on women of color from Mexico working in the
Maquiladoras and in domestic work in San
diego. What have been the push and pull factors
that have fueled their migration to the North. I chose Chandra
Mohanty piece to add to the
syllabus because it is the framework that has grounded my research. It has provided
a lens to analyze the testimonies I have gathered for my research. Chandra
Monhanty critiques Western Feminism as a universalizing patriarchal framework
that reproduces the same ideals as colonial domination. She raises an urgency
in establishing an ethical analytical lens that questions capitalism, moves
away from misleading ideological binarisms and cultural relativist ideologies.
Mohanty introduces the anticapitalist
transnational feminist methodology that is anchored in challenging colonial
tools of subjugation such as patriarchy and
racism. An anti-capitalist transnational feminist practice is attentive
to the micropolitics of context, subjectivity, and struggle and argues for a
grounded, particularized analyses linked with larger, even global, economic and
political frameworks ( Mohanty 223). . Mohanty draws on Arif Dirliks’s notion
of place “place consciousness” to centralized the struggles of marginalized
communities. In my research I am attempting to centralized the experiences of my interlocuters in order
to understand how global forces affect the local.
