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Muddying the Waters:

Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism

ISBN-13: 9780252038792
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Richa Nagar
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Local release date: 14/12/2014
Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ]

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Google Preview: A moving exploration of the promise and pitfalls encountered during two decades of transnational feminist workIn Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar embarks on an eloquent and moving exploration of the promises and pitfalls she has encountered during her two decades of transnational feminist work. With stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, Nagar grapples with the complexity of working through solidarities, responsibility, and ethics while involved in politically engaged scholarship. Experiences that range from the streets of Dar es Salaaam to farms and development offices in North India inform discussion of the labor and politics of coauthorship, translation, and genre blending in research and writing that cross multiple--and often difficult--borders. The author links the implicit assumptions, issues, and questions involved with scholarship and political action, and explores the epistemological risks and possibilities of creative research that bring these into intimate dialogue Daringly self-conscious, Muddying the Waters reveals a politically engaged researcher and writer working to become ""radically vulnerable,"" and the ways in which such radical vulnerability can allow a re-imagining of collaboration that opens up new avenues to collective dreaming and laboring across sociopolitical, geographical, linguistic, and institutional borders.; ""More than any other book I know, it robustly confronts the epistemic violence that is possible in collaborative feminist research. . . . It takes seriously the mandate of multivocality and relays conversations with a range of interlocutors, from students to mentors to collaborators to colleagues. The author also writes in different voices--as a theorist, a poet, a teacher, and a sangtin. In each case, there is ringing passion.""--Ashwini Tambe, author of Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay and editorial director of Feminist Studies ""A significant contribution to scholarly conversations across the Global North-South, and White vs. feminists-of-color divides. A must-read for anyone who is interested in truly global feminist theorizing.""--Bandana Purkayastha, professor and head of sociology and Asian American studies, University of Connecticut, and author of Negotiating Ethnicity; Google Preview content

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