Muddying the waters : coauthoring feminisms across scholarship and activism / Richa Nagar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagar, Richa, author.

Series:

Dissident feminisms.

Dissident feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies.

Feminist theory.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar uses stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, to grapple 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 co-authorship, translation and genre blending in research and writing that cross multiple--and often difficult--borders, Nagar links the implicit assumptions, issues, and questions involved with scholarship and political action, and explores the epistemological risks and possibilities of creative research that brings these into intimate dialogue. Daringly self-conscious, Muddying the Waters reveals a politically engaged research and writer working to become "radically vulnerable," and on the ways a focus on such radical vulnerability could allow a re-imagining of collaboration that opens new avenues to collective dreaming and laboring across sociopolitical, geographical, linguistic, and institutional borders"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introducing Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism

1. Translated Fragments, Fragmented Translations

2. Dar es Salaam: Making Peace with an Abandoned "Field"

3. Reflexivity, Positionality, and Languages of Collaboration in Feminist Fieldwork

4. Representation, Accountability, and Collaborative Border Crossings: Moving Beyond Positionality

5. Traveling and Crossing, Dreaming and Becoming: Journeys after Sangtin Yatra

6. Four Truths of Storytelling and Coauthorship in Feminist Alliance Work

Notes

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252080357

0252080351

9780252096754

0252096754

OCLC:

896850595