The Red, the Green, the Black, and the Purple: Reclaiming Development, Resisting Globalization
The emergent paradigm of "Women, Culture, & Development" (WCD) calls for a development centered on women, that gives culture & human agency much significance for political economy. The reimagining of development in a socialist, green, antiracist feminism is explored to argue that culture must be brought into discussions as a noneconomistic yet material way to produce knowledge & different strategies for social change. Their vision of politics invokes the red of socialism, the black of racial difference, & the purple of feminism to reimagine development. The two brief case studies of biopolitical "intellectual property" exemplified in the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) & the political space created by the women of Chiapas point to the ecological, material, & cultural struggles of Third World women for socially just forms of development. The expression of the red, green, black, & purple is a reminder of the socialist, green, antiracist, feminist visions of social justice in which all human beings have the potential to change-themselves & their social circumstances. Women do make history &, sometimes, in circumstances of our own choosing. References. J. Harwell