Swarr / Nagar Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-2939-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action

Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches to scholarship and activism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swarr, Amanda Lock

Nagar, Richa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theorizing Transnational Feminist Praxis
RICHA NAGAR AND AMANDA LOCK SWARR

Part I. Decolonizing Transnational Feminisms

1. Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis
M. JACQUI ALEXANDER AND CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY

2. Disavowed Legacies and Honorable Thievery: The Work of the “Transnational” in Feminist and LGBTQ Studies
JIGNA DESAI, DANIELLE BOUCHARD, AND DIANE DETOURNAY

Part II. Dialogical Journeys

3. Seeing Beyond the State: Toward Transnational Feminist Organizing
GERALDINE PRATT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PHILIPPINE WOMEN CENTRE OF BC AND UGNAYAN NG KABATAANG PILIPINO SA CANADA/ THE FILIPINO-CANADIAN YOUTH ALLIANCE

4. Conflicts and Collaborations: Building Trust in Transnational South Africa
SAM BULLINGTON AND AMANDA LOCK SWARR

5. Feminist Academic and Activist Praxis in Service of the Transnational
LINDA PEAKE AND KAREN DE SOUZA

6. Still Playing with Fire: Intersectionality, Activism, and NGOized Feminism
SANGTIN WRITERS (Reena, Richa Nagar, Richa Singh, and Surbala)

Part III. Representations and Reclamations

7. So Much to Remind Us We Are Dancing on Other People’s Blood: Moving toward Artistic Excellence, Moving from Silence to Speech, Moving in Water, with Ananya Dance Theatre
OMISE’EKE NATASHA TINSLEY, ANANYA CHATTERJEA, HUI NIU WILCOX, AND SHANNON GIBNEY

8. Remapping the Americas: A Transnational Engagement with Creative Tensions of Community Arts
DEBORAH BARNDT

9. Envisioning Justice: The Politics and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Film
RACHEL SILVEY

Continuing Conversations
CRITICAL TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST PRAXIS CONTRIBUTORS
(Danielle Bouchard, Piya Chatterjee, Jigna Desai, Karen de Souza, Diane Detournay, Richa Nagar, Linda Peake, Rachel Silvey, Amanda Lock Swarr, and Hui Niu Wilcox)

About the Editors and Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Lock Swarr is Assistant Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Richa Nagar is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She coauthored, with Sangtin Writers, Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India.