Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19

Vishwas Satgar (Author, Editor) Vishwas Satgar is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the editor of the Democratic Marxism series, and is the principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project and a democratic eco-socialist. Ruth Ntlokotse (Author, Editor) Ruth Ntlokotse is deputy president of the National Union of Metal of South Africa (NUMSA). Hawzhin Azeez (Author) Hawzhin Azeez is a Kurdish academic, activist and poet who spent close to four years in the Rojava region as a participant in the rebuilding and reconstruction of Kobane. Asanda Benya (Author) Asanda Benya is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Christine Bischoff (Author) Christine Bischoff works as a researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Jane Cherry (Author) Jane Cherry is the executive manager at the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre in Johannesburg. She is also an activist and organiser in the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and the Climate Justice Charter Movement. Jacklyn Cock (Author) Jacklyn Cock is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a research associate of the university's Society, Work and Politics Institute. Samantha Hargreaves (Author) Samantha Hargreaves is the founder and director of the WoMin African Alliance, which works to challenge the destructive impacts of a patriarchal extractivist development model. Inge Konik (Author) Inge Konik is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and an associate editor for the journal Environmental Humanities. Jane Mbithi-Dikgol (Author) Jane Mbithi-Dikgole is a lecturer and research supervisor at the South African College of Applied Psychology. Courtney Morgan (Author) Courtney Morgan is a campaigner for the African Climate Reality Project. Sonia Phalatse (Author) Sonia Phalatse is a feminist economist researching and writing at the intersection of climate and economic justice. Busi Sibeko (Author) Busi Sibeko is an economist and researcher whose work has focused on macroeconomic policy and who co-chaired the Budget Justice Coalition in South Africa. Dineo Skosana (Author) Dineo Skosana is a researcher at Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of the Witwatersrand.

• AcknowledgementsAcronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction – Vishwas Satgar and Ruth NtlokotsePART I: Indigenous Emancipatory Feminism and Transformative Resistance Chapter 1 Extractivism and Crises: Rooting Development Alternatives in Emancipatory African Socialist Eco-feminism – Samantha HargreavesChapter 2 Jineology and the Pandemic: Rojava’s Alternative Anti-Capitalist-Statist Model – Hawzhin AzeezPART II: Ecology and Transformative Women’s Power in South AfricaChapter 3 Doing ecofeminism in a time of Covid-19: Beyond the limits of liberal feminism – Inge KonikChapter 4 ‘Our Existence is Resistance’: Women Challenging Mining and the Climate Crisis in a time of Covid-19 – Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn CockChapter 5 Women and Food Sovereignty: Tackling Hunger during Covid-19 – Courtney Morgan and Jane CherryPART III: Economic Transformation, Public Services and Transformative Women’s Power in South AfricaChapter 6 Quiet Rebels: Underground Women Miners and Refusal as Resistance – Asanda BenyaChapter 7 Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa – Jane Mbithi-DikgoleChapter 8 Government’s Covid-19 Fiscal Responses and the Crisis of Social Reproduction – Sonia Phalatse and Busi SibekoChapter 9 Nursing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction - Before and During Covid-19 – Christine BischoffPART IV: Where to for Emancipatory Feminism?Chapter 10 Crises, Socio-Ecological Reproduction and Intersectionality: Challenges for Emancipatory Feminism – Vishwas SatgarConclusion: Ruth Ntlokotse and Vishwas SatgarContributorsIndex