Staging Dissent - Young Women of Color and Transnational Activism

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Weems is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Cultural Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Klappentext Staging Dissent: Young Women of Color and Transnational Activism seeks to interrupt normative histories of girlhood dominated by North American contexts and Western feminisms to offer an alternative history of girlhoods produced by and through globalization. Weems does this by offering three case studies that exemplify how transnational and indigenous youth dissent against capitalism and colonialism through situated "guerilla pedagogies." Zusammenfassung Staging Dissent: Young Women of Color and Transnational Activism seeks to interrupt normative histories of girlhood dominated by North American contexts and Western feminisms to offer an alternative history of girlhoods produced by and through globalization. Weems does this by offering three case studies that exemplify how transnational and indigenous youth dissent against capitalism and colonialism through situated "guerilla pedagogies." Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. 1 Feminist Transnational Praxis and Staging Dissent. 2 Refuting "Refugee Chic". 3 Intimate Sovereignty. 4 Decolonizing Research Praxis: Working Side by Side with Girls of Color. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Weems, Weems Lisa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138210677
• ISBN: 978-1-138-21067-7
• No. of pages: 104
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Irregular or guerrilla forces & warfare, Irregular or guerrilla forces and warfare, HISTORY / Military / Guerrilla Warfare