Assignment:
In Scream from the Shadows, Setsu Shigematsu writes of the philosophies and solidarity practices of the ribu movement: "By recognizing the subject's constitution in a system of historical and structural violence, such a feminist ethics would recognize that the eruption of counterviolence becomes recognizable only through its break with the normalized (and often nonvisible) conditions of state violence" (170). According to your reading and understanding of the violence of the URA/JRA uprisings and uman ribu, what are the conditions that Shigematsu is describing? Describe why "critical solidarity," which often meant being in solidarity with violence, was crucial to their goals.
Readings:
Ribu's Response to the United Red Army Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Violence
By Setsu Shigematsu