Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir

This paper discusses the expansion of gender equality agendas by the corporate sector via forms of corporate social responsibility programs. Using a multi-sited ethnography as a case study, I analyze how women’s empowerment has been incorporated into communicative practices through a CSR initiative that promotes entrepreneurship training for Brazilian women. The findings suggest that such strategies secure an ethical and socially committed positioning for the corporate sector, while the effects on the lives of the women involved are less tangible.

I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg hvorfor Simone de Beauvoirs syn på kjærlighet, slik det blant annet kommer til utrykk i Det annet kjønn gjennom skillet mellom autentisk og inautentisk kjærlighet, må forstås som grunnlagt på den eksistensialistiske frihetsetikken hun først utviklet i Tvetydighetens etikk. Jeg argumenterer også for at Beauvoirs teori utfordrer andre eksistensialisters syn på kjærlighet: Vi er hverken dømt til ensomhet eller endeløse konflikter med andre. Ekte kjærlighet er mulig, men likevel ikke det absolutte og endelige mål i våre liv. Med dette synet utfordrer Beauvoir også den tradisjonen som forfekter at kjærlighet må forstås som en union; at to individer smelter sammen til ett. For Beauvoir er en slik union hverken mulig eller ønskelig, ekte kjærlighet må alltid være grunnlagt på frihet.

Comment caractériser la présence de Simone de Beauvoir aux côtés du MLF ? Pour Nadja Ringart il s’agit d’un accompagnement constant bien plus que d’un simple soutien. De rencontres en manifestations, puis en réunions de travail, elle relate comment, selon elle, Simone de Beauvoir est passée d’une curiosité à l’égard du MLF à un investissement profond, d’un soutien à un engagement.

In late 2005, four antiwar activists with a group called Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) were kidnapped in Baghdad. Two of the men were identified as Canadian citizens, and the other two were an American and a Briton. In March 2006, after nearly four months in captivity, three of the men were rescued through a military operation involving British, American, Canadian, and Iraqi forces, and they were returned to their countries of residence. This essay explores the racialized privileges of Western citizenship status, and in particular, its deployment in transnational (referring to the physical crossing of national borders) interventions made by such activists. Moreover, this essay seeks to understand and reveal the vast distinction between those who carry the privilege of Western citizenship and those who do not, and the subversive possibilities within such asymmetrical power relations. By using media representations of this kidnapping as the focal point of the analysis, this essay explores how racialization and sexuality work together to construct both Western citizenship and national identity.