{"id":500,"date":"2014-10-07T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T15:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/?p=500"},"modified":"2014-10-07T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T15:09:35","slug":"eve-enslers-one-billion-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Eve Ensler\u2019s \u2018One Billion Rising\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/onebillionrising.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-501 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/onebillionrising-295x186.jpeg\" alt=\"onebillionrising\" width=\"295\" height=\"186\"><\/a>The aim of One Billion Rising (OBR) was to stage a&nbsp;day of global mass action on 14<span style=\"line-height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/span>February 2013&nbsp;in which one billion women and men worldwide would \u2018walk out\u2019 (or \u2018strike\u2019) rise up, dance and demand an end to violence against women and girls. After a&nbsp;brief introduction which contextualises this event in relation to V\u2011Day, an organisation spearheaded by playwright, performer and activist Eve Ensler, this article will start by exploring some of the common threads in critiques of its various projects that have been offered by feminist scholars and commentators.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on this framework and focussing mainly on the various promotional videos produced in the build up to the day, OBR will be considered as a&nbsp;global \u2018brand\u2019 which rather than \u2018transnational\u2019 feminism represents and promotes a&nbsp;neo-liberal \u2018feminist cosmopolitanism\u2019. The argument is that articulated from and privileging a&nbsp;western perspective and focussing in consumptive practices of vision and spectacle (Hesford, 2010:55) this campaign commodifies \u2018other women\u2019 and ultimately promotes a&nbsp;sense of cathartic liberation rather than concrete political action. This will be explored in relation to more general issues regarding social media and transnational political activism.<\/p>\n<p>Switching perspective to note the way in which V\u2011Day\u2019s critics tend to emphasise Ensler\u2019s role as \u2018author\u2019 of its events, OBR is then examined in positive terms as an event that was far from \u2018monological\u2019, so as to raise some issues around feminist critiques of feminist activism, especially those structured around performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of One Billion Rising (OBR) was to stage a&nbsp;day of global mass action on 14&nbsp;February 2013&nbsp;in which one billion women and men worldwide would \u2018walk out\u2019 (or \u2018strike\u2019) rise up, dance and demand an end to violence against women and girls. After a&nbsp;brief introduction which contextualises this event&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"coauthors":[39],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project","post_format-post-format-image","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}