Contested Public Spheres

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-15

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 17-29

3. Entering the World of NGOs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Entering the World of NGOs: The Researcher’s Trajectory

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 33-57

   3. Becoming an Activist: The Activists’ Trajectories

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 59-106

4. Inside the World of NGOs: Constituting Female Counterpublics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Negotiating Gender Equality and Legal Reforms: Women’s Organisations in Kuala Lumpur

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 109-147

   3. Protecting Women’s Dignity: Women’s Organisations in Kelantan

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 149-183

   4. Defending the Quality of Life in a Global Economy

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 185-226

5. Negotiating the Public Sphere in Local and Translocal Settings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. Mechanisms of Publicness: Dress, Cultural Belonging, and Education

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 229-253

   3. Constructing New Notions of Publicness

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 255-286

   4. Negotiating Rights within Diversity: Translocal Networking and Comparisons

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 287-320

   5. Conclusion: Translocal Knowledgescapes and Transnational Public Spheres

      • Anna Spiegel

      Pages 321-338

6. Back Matter

   Pages 339-369

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1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists 1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists: Experiencing and doing globalisation Going through the broad spectrum of globalisation research and literature, one might be astonished at how much it assumes the force of global change, and how little of this literature demonstrates this force in an empirically grounded way. This study, being based on six months of empirical research in Malaysia in 2004, sets out to counter this lack of thick description of globalisation processes. It takes up the challenge of researching the “global everyday” (Appadurai 2000, 18) of civil society actors in Malaysia and focuses on how social activists belonging to different branches of the women’s movement selectively app- priate, transform and even create global meanings and materialise them in local practices. The methodological endeavour of combining globalisation research and ethnography has been taken up by a diversity of authors. Burawoy and his research team have developed a complex methodological framework by focusing on the experiential dimensions of globalisation. They want to produce a “grounded globalisation” or “perspectives on globalisations from below” (Burawoy 2000b, 338, 341). This perspective is very fruitful, as the notion of experiencing globalisation as “forces, connections, and imaginations” (Burawoy et al. eds. 2000) relocates the global in the local and ties both together in mutual constitution.

• Asien
• Gender Equality
• Gender identity
• Social Movement
• Social movements
• globalisation
• women's rights

Anna Spiegel is currently employed at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she is coordinating desiguALdades.net, the Research Network on Inderdependent Inequalities in Latin America.

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