Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse the modes of visibility used by the 8th of March Network (Portugal) in the International Feminist Strike, on International Women's Day. Considering that the visible and the invisible are inseparable, and that visibility is intervisibility and sociability – where reciprocal visibility forms the foundation of human interaction and social relationship – this analysis focuses on examining the five Manifestos of the 8th of March Network, spanning from 2019 to 2023, to answer the central question of which mode(s) or regime(s) of visibility it employs.

The problem of recognition is also addressed, insofar as many struggles for visibility are also struggles for recognition, which this analysis considers to be the case. Once this is understood, the five Manifestos of the 8th of March Network, from 2019 to 2023, are analysed by applying the conceptual frameworks of Brighenti's regimes of visibility (2010) and Honneth's modes or forms of recognition (2003).