Adding Human Rights to the Shopping List: British Women's Abolitionist Boycotts as Radical Learning and Practice

Autor/in	Jubas, Kaela
Titel	Adding Human Rights to the Shopping List: British Women's Abolitionist Boycotts as Radical Learning and Practice
Quelle	In: Convergence, 41 (2008) 1, S.77-94 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-8146
Schlagwörter	Females; Activism; Consumer Economics; European History; Civil Rights; Slavery; Sex Role; Incidental Learning; Citizenship; Case Studies; Feminism; Adult Education; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (Great Britain) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Konsumökonomie; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Sklaverei; Geschlechterrolle; Inzidentelles Lernen; Staatsbürgerschaft; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Feminismus; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Ausland
Abstract	Working from a feminist/critical cultural studies perspective, which perceives culture and society as imbued with political tensions, I pose two central questions in this article. First, how can community-based, consumer activism be understood as a strategy adopted by marginalised groups to assert rights claims? I focus on British women's eighteenth-and nineteenth-century abolitionist boycotts as a case study of this understanding. These campaigns drew on women's socially defined roles as shoppers and consumers both to mobilise and publicise opposition to slavery, and to agitate further for women's political rights. Second, what are the implications of this case for adult education? The learning from this case study is multifaceted. It historicises the concepts of citizenship, human rights and consumerism so that, today, we can understand them as discourses that have developed to accommodate changing interests, pressures and tensions in civil society. This case also illuminates the complications of resistance, and the powerful political "incidental learning" (Foley 1999, 2001) which develops in the course of civic engagement, but is often overlooked precisely because it is unanticipated and embedded in action. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10