al Khatib, Islam (2025) In search of the organic intellectual a Gramscian reading of Arab feminist knowledge production. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. ISSN 1369-801X
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This essay “sits with” Arab feminist knowledge production mechanisms and processes, tracing its currents as they move through and against structures of power. It takes up Gramsci’s “war of position” as an invitation to consider how grassroots feminists in the Arab region inhabit the role of organic intellectuals, producing knowledge in ways that refuse containment. This knowledge does not sit comfortably within institutions, even as it is co-opted by NGOs and academia, translated into frameworks that often betray its intent. By exploring new ways of identifying “organic knowledge production” in oral histories, in the labour of translation, and in protest archives, this essay follows the ways in which feminist knowledge undoes dominant narratives, whether those imposed by the state or those tethered to Western epistemic authority. It insists on the force of feminist thought as praxis, as a movement that not only names injustice but acts upon it. Gramsci’s notions of organicity and the war of position find new life in these feminist struggles as tools sharpened by multi-directional organizing experiences. In centreing these modes of knowledge production, the essay unsettles the narrow grammars of civil society, which too often reduce feminist work to NGO-led initiatives, severed from the communities that sustain them. Instead, it returns knowledge to its rightful custodians, to those who shape its meanings in relation to struggle.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2025 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
| Divisions: | Methodology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Dec 2025 11:27 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2025 00:04 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130661 |
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