Ripping, Cutting, Stitching - Feminist Knowledge Destruction and Creation in Global Politics

This theoretically creative, polyvocal work un-disciplines knowledge and modes of expression in politics. The text's point of departure is a conventional scholarly conference and its peculiar academic concerns, opening up broader and deeper concerns about everyday-level decisions, realities, and perspectives that feed into and make global politics.

List of contents

Part I
1: how to read this book that is not a book
2: frankenstinian encounters: feeling the ways
3: on writing
4: collective writing/writing collectively
5: playground relations
6: calling out (via) disjunctures
7: what is at stake?
A pause, a breather: I was distracted ...
PART II
8: black cats, the seduction of usefulness and cracks
9: perverse love letter
10: writing exhaustion - the unbearable weight of white feminism
11: composting anger: why I/we refuse your 'diversity' and the 'womanofcolour' tag
12: planet white boys
13: on exhaustion and enchantment
14: can feminism be a comma?
15: exhausted (again) of the normal
16: academic friendships and angers (not?) worth holding onto
17: on writing and this book
PART III
18: a shaking...
19: feminist practices of knowledge formation...
20: trajectories....?
21: imagining other futures...
22: dreaming of other futures...
23: Poetics of a handbook - or some suggestions for better practices... (for those still in academia...)
24: be(com)ing undisciplined...

About the author

By shine choi; Saara Särmä Cristina Masters; Marysia Zalewski; Michelle Lee Brown and Swati Parashar

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Lee Brown, shine choi, Shine Sarma Choi, Cristina Masters, Masters Cristina, Swati Parashar, Parashar Swati, Saara Sarma, Saara Särmä, Marysia Zalewski
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2023
• EAN: 9781538171387
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7138-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Creative Interventions in Global Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POETRY / General, Poetry, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, International Relations, Feminism & feminist theory