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This article analyzes the internal, organizational processes within a Nicaraguan women worker's organization, the Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, "María Elena Cuadra" (MEC) to explore the ways in which place-centered, locally constituted political identities articulate with transnational flows of ideas and discourses to shape actors' collective practices. MEC's changing organizational practices reflect the influence of strategies and practices employed in the mass organizations of the FSLN and transnational flows of discourses and ideas about issues such as feminism, personal and political autonomy, and the relationship between individuals and a collective. I explore the impact of members' experiences within the Sandinista mass organizations on MEC's organizational practices and analyze MEC's uneasy relationship with feminist organizations and Northern-based NGOs. While transnational linkages have opened new opportunities for groups like MEC, certain relations of inequality, such as those based on neocolonialism, persist. The case of MEC sheds light on the complex ways in which power operates through and within transnational organizational relations.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Border politics: contests over territory, nation, identity, and belonging -- 2. "Border granny wants you!": grandmothers policing nation at the us-Mexico border -- 3. Defending the nation: militarism, women's empowerment, and the Hindu right -- 4. Borders, territory, and ethnicity: women and the naga peace process -- 5. Imperial gazes and queer politics: re/reading female political subjectivity in Pakistan -- 6. Indigenous peoples and colonial borders: sovereignty, nationhood, identity, and activism -- 7. Constricting boundaries: collective identity in the tea party movement -- 8. Occupy Slovenia: how migrant movements contributed to new forms of direct democracy -- 9. Challenging borders, imagining Europe: transnational lgbt activism in a new Europe -- 10. Frames, boomerangs, and global assemblages: border distortions in the global resistance to dam building in Lesotho -- 11. Networks, place, and barriers to cross-border organizing: "no border" camping in transcarpathia, Ukraine -- 12. "Giving wings to our dreams": binational activism and workers' rights struggles in the San Diego–Tijuana border region -- 13. Border politics: creating a dialogue between border studies and social movements -- About the contributors -- Index

We explore puzzling outcomes in a Virginia school district: in 2018, the Williamsburg-James City County School Board voted to redraw attendance boundaries to achieve greater racial and socio-economic integration among its middle schools, yet abandoned similar efforts for high schools. Drawing on Critical Race perspectives, we conducted a content analysis of archival materials, including school board meeting transcripts, to analyze the conditions under which school decision-makers mobilize to enact equity-oriented policy reforms. We found that school board members abandoned high school rezoning in the face of fierce opposition from white, affluent residents who saw school reassignments as a threat to their entitlements to a highly rated school and to their property values. For the middle schools, board members avoided white families' entitlements, which neutralized opposition, at the same time as strong community advocacy in favor of equity and integration shifted the political landscape. This activated 'interest convergence' among school board members supportive of equity and resulted in the approval of middle-school attendance boundaries that produced greater racial and socioeconomic integration. This case underscores the importance of community advocacy for equity-based reforms; however, the scope of these efforts may be limited to changes that do not substantively threaten white parents' perceived entitlements.

This article compares women workers' movements in Nicaragua & Northern Mexico that have mobilized in opposition to the abuses occurring within export-processing zones (EPZs). We examine the opportunities & obstacles that such movements have faced as they seek social change via national & transnational coalitions. Our focus on gender tensions within transnational labor movements illustrates how power relations fracture the space of transnational civil society & constrain opposition to neoliberalism. Women's labor movements in both contexts confront highly gendered national & transnational political spaces, stemming in part from the hegemonic association of women with private space & men with public space. Significant differences in the opportunities for resistance emerging from local & national dynamics in Nicaragua & Mexico demonstrate that the realm of the so-called global cannot be understood as abstracted from historically situated localities. 83 References. Adapted from the source document.

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