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This edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches. The conversation is pluriversal; it voices and reflects upon a plurality of geo- and corpopolitical as well as epistemic locations in specific Global South/East/North/West contexts.
List of contents
Epigraph: Sister Ode; 1. Colliding Words and Worlds: Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms;
Part I: Myriad Tongues and Multiple Emotions (On Affected Writing and Ethics); 2. A Black Woman Died at The Intersection(ality) Today; 3. Pedagogies of Precarity; 4. Scenes of Precarity: Where is the Exit?; 5. Affected Writing: A Decolonial, Intersectional Feminist Engagement with Narratives of Sexual Violence; 6. Notes from My Field Diary: Revisiting Emotions in the Field; 7. Whiteness as Friction: Vulnerability as a Method in Transnational Research; 8. From Affective Pedagogies to Affected Pedagogues - A Conversation; 9. "I will Meet You at Twilight": On Subjectivity, Identity and Transnational Intersectional Feminist Research; 10. Living an African Feminist Life: Decolonial Perspectives - A Conversation;
Part II: Portals of Possibility (On Methodologies); 11. Can Methodologies be Decolonial? Towards a Relational Experiential Epistemic Togetherness; 12. Reading Transnationally: Literary Transduction as a Feminist Tool; 13. Writing Love Letters Across Borders: A Conversation on Indigenous-Centred Methodologies;
Part III: Intrepid Journeys (On the Epistemic Implications of Geopolitical Situatedness); 14. #MeToo Through a Decolonial Feminist Lens: Critical Reflections on Transnational Online Activism Against Sexual Violence; 15. Translocality, a Decolonial Take on Feminist Strategies; 16. Re-Routing the Sexual: A Regional and Relational Lens in Theorizing Sexuality in the Middle East (West Asia); 17. Beautiful Diversity? Diversity Rhetoric, Ethnicized Visions and Nesting Post-Soviet Hegemonies in the Multimedia Project
The Ethnic Origins of Beauty; 18. Reducing Costs While Optimizing Health? A Transnational Feminist Engagement with Personalized Medicine; 19. The Meanings of Chronopolitics and Temporal Awareness in Feminist Ethnographic Research; 20. Disrupting the Colonial Gaze: Towards Alternative Sexual Justice Engagements with Young People in South Africa; 21. Studying Happiness in Post-Colonial and Post-Apartheid South Africa: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations; 22. On Decolonization, the University and Transnational Solidarities - A Conversation
About the author
Nina Lykke is Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Redi Koobak is Chancellor's Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Strathclyde, UK.
Petra Bakos is a literary scholar with a PhD in comparative gender studies from the Central European University (CEU), Hungary/Austria.
Swati Arora is Lecturer in Performance and Global South Studies at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Kharnita Mohamed is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa.
