Solidarity across borders

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.