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Article Open Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.01.004

Lactivism and Mothering as Libertarian Social Practices: A Feminist Plea

Ester Massó Guijarro

Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

*Corresponding author: Ester Massó Guijarro

Published: January 24,2022

Abstract

These are turbulent times, days of crisis and transformation, days in which many people try to change the world in many different ways. Social movements in which the public sphere is taken from the margins, with new ways of politics—namely, of entering the public arena—aiming at changing the world, seeking to achieve greater justice and express outrage at injustice. In the 1990s, the Mexican Zapatista revolution’s battle cry was the idea of changing the world without taking the power. That is to say: governmental power. The phrase and the idea had such an impact that they ended up in a book, which became a reference in social sciences: Change the world without taking power, written by John Holloway. The author studied the Zapatista movement; how structures for action and thought needed to be changed to enable a fairer world, not necessarily by traditional policies (political parties, representative government…). Thus, we find vibrant and telling examples of how to change the world without taking the power, of how to engage in politics from the grassroots, of how to start a revolution from the crib (from the arms!), in the most literal sense, in the relentless daily activity of breastfeeding and parenting support groups. Because, if we begin to raise from the base, and mothering children, future people—thus, the future base of society, in a respected and emotionally stable way, we will be laying the first foundations for pacific, diverse and respectful societies. Such groups and the people that give life to them are also a striking example of the catch phrase across the field of social struggles for alter-globalization as a means to build a fairer world: “think global, act local”. These groups, which have a marked horizontal nature—non-adultocentric—change the world without taking power. Even though we may actually empower ourselves in different ways, we think globally when we act locally, every day, with our children.

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Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2021). Childhood and pandemic: chronicle of an absence foretold. Salud Colectiva [Collective Health], 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3303.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2020). Care and justice in times of coronavirus: when empathy is not enough. In E. Massó Guijarro (Ed.), Ethics and health in times of pandemic: reflections on care and social justice. Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason, 65: 7-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1313.

Massó Guijarro, Ester and Triviño Caballero, Rosana. (2020). Childbirth and abortion in times of coronavirus: the impact of the pandemic on sexual and reproductive rights. In E. Massó Guijarro (Ed.), Ethics and health in times of pandemic: reflections on care and social justice. Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason, 65: 117-130. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1305.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2018). I saved her life: the breastlived, the milk narrated. Herstories of a wet nurse, Southern Spain, 20th Century. Mana Journal. Studies in Social Anthropology, 24(3): 186-215. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1678-49442018v24n3p186.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2017a). Introduction: mythos and lógos on human lactation. Dilemata. International Journal of Applied Ethics, 25: 1-12. URL: https://www.dilemata.net/revista/index.php/dilemata/article/view/412000128/508.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2017b). Human lactation as living heritage: rescuing social history in the Plaza de las Pasiegas in Granada. PH Investigation: IAPH Journal for Cultural Heritage Research, 93: 10-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33349/revistaph.v0i0.4088.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2015a). Contemporary lactivism in Spain: a new socio-political tide? Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 1(16): 193-213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2015.1069074.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2015b). A lactivist ethnography: lactivist dignity through desires and politics. AIBR, 10(2): 231-257. DOI: 10.11156/aibr.100205.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2015c). Conjectures (and refutations?). Onbreastfeeding: decolonial breast? Dilemata. International Journal of Applied Ethics, 10(2): 185-223. URL: https://www.dilemata.net/revista/index. php/dilemata/article/view/379/384.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2013a). Breastfeeding and revolution, or the teat as biocultural insubordination: colostrum, body and care. Dilemata. International Journal of Applied Ethics, 11: 169-206. URL: https://www.dilemata.net/revista/index.php/dilemata/article/view/198/239.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2013b). Lactating desire: sexuality and politics in contemporary lactivism. Journal of Experimental Anthropology, 13: 515-529. URL: https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/ view/1841/1597.

Original references in Spanish

Hooks, b., et al. (2010). Otras inapropiables: feminismos desde las fronteras. Madrid: Traficantes de sueños.

Isasi-Díaz, Ada María. (2003). Lo cotidiano, elemento intrínseco de la realidad. In R. Fornet-Betancourt (Ed.), Resistencia y solidaridad. Globalización capitalista y liberación (pp. 365-384). Madrid: Trotta.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2021). Infancia y pandemia: crónica de una ausencia anunciada. Salud Colectiva, 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3303.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2020). Cuidado y justicia en tiempos de coronavirus: cuando la empatía no basta. In E. Massó Guijarro (Ed.), Ética y salud en tiempos de pandemia: reflexiones sobre cuidados y justicia social. Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason, 65: 7-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1313.

Massó Guijarro, Ester y Triviño Caballero, Rosana. (2020). Parto y aborto en tiempos de coronavirus: el impacto de la pandemia en los derechos sexuales y reproductivos. In E. Massó Guijarro (Ed.), Ética y salud en tiempos de pandemia: reflexiones sobre cuidados y justicia social. Enrahonar. An International Journal of Theoretical and Practical Reason, 65: 117-130. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1305.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2018). Le salvé la vida: el pecho vivido, la leche narrada. Historia(s) de ama de teta, sur de España, siglo XX. Revista Mana. Estudios en Antropología Social, 24(3): 186-215. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1678-49442018v24n3p186.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2017a). Introducción: mythos y lógos sobre lactancia humana. Dilemata. Revista Internacional de Éticas Aplicadas, 25: 1-12. URL: https://www.dilemata.net/revista/index.php/dilemata/article/view/412000128/508.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2017b). La lactancia humana como patrimonio vivo: rescatando historia social en la Plaza de las Pasiegas de Granada. PH Investigación: revista del IAPH para la investigación del patrimonio cultural, 93: 10-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33349/revistaph.v0i0.4088.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2015a). Lactivismo contemporáneo en España: ¿una nueva marea sociopolítica? Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 1(16): 193-213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2015.1069074.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2015b). Una etnografía lactivista: la dignidad lactante a través de deseos y políticas. Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, 10(2): 231-257. DOI: 10.11156/aibr.100205.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2015c). Conjeturas (¿y refutaciones?) Sobre amamantamiento: ¿teta decolonial? Dilemata. Revista Internacional de Éticas Aplicadas, 10(2): 185-223. URL: https://www.dilemata.net/revista/index.php/ dilemata/article/view/379/384.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2013a). Lactancia materna y revolución, o la teta como insumisión biocultural: calostro, cuerpo y cuidado. Dilemata. Revista Internacional de Éticas Aplicadas, 11: 169-206. URL: https://www.dilemata.net/revista/ index.php/dilemata/article/view/198/239.

Massó Guijarro, Ester. (2013b). Deseo lactante: sexualidad y política en el lactivismo contemporáneo. Revista de Antropología Experimental, 13: 515-529. URL: https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/ view/1841/1597.

How to cite this paper

Lactivism and Mothering as Libertarian Social Practices: A Feminist Plea

How to cite this paper: Ester Massó Guijarro. (2022) Lactivism and Mothering as Libertarian Social Practices: A Feminist Plea. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 6(1), 43-49.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2022.01.004

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