Making time for the space of appearance: Feminist approaches to solidarity and/as co-appearance

Journal title STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI
Author/s Melissa Tyler
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/2
Language English Pages 12 P. 205-216 File size 152 KB
DOI 10.3280/SO2025-002009
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This paper examines the importance of making time for what Hannah Arendt calls the ‘space of appearance’ to feminist solidarity, considering shared time and space as a scene through which a recognition-based politics of care might flourish. As a way into contributing to discussions about the feminist struggle for time and space it draws from Arendt’s distinction between work and labour, and feminist readings of it, to consider the importance of workability to building and sustaining feminist solidarity. It begins by considering the importance of the ‘space of appearance’ to Arendt’s thinking, before sharing some personal reflections on the challenges of making time and space for co-appearance and connection. It then examines the ontological, ethical and political underpinnings of making time and space from a feminist perspective, drawing from Judith Butlers’ reading of Arendt in their writing on how vulnerability and/as resistance is materialized in a politics of assembly. Finally, it explores the importance of recognition of our mutual but socially situated interdependence to the workable lives necessary to realizing feminist solidarity, and a politics of care.

Keywords: Hannah Arendt; Judith Butler; space of appearance; time; vulnerability; workability.

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Melissa Tyler, Making time for the space of appearance: Feminist approaches to solidarity and/as co-appearance in "STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI " 2/2025, pp 205-216, DOI: 10.3280/SO2025-002009