Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis

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v Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Theorizing Transnational Feminist Praxis 1 RICHA NAGAR AND AMANDA LOCK SWARR Part I. Decolonizing Transnational Feminisms 1. Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: 23 Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis M. JACQUI ALEXANDER AND CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY 2. Disavowed Legacies and Honorable Thievery: 46 The Work of the “Transnational” in Feminist and LGBTQ Studies JIGNA DESAI, DANIELLE BOUCHARD, AND DIANE DETOURNAY Part II. Dialogical Journeys 3. Seeing Beyond the State: 65 Toward Transnational Feminist Organizing GERALDINE PRATT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PHILIPPINE WOMEN CENTRE OF BC AND UGNAYAN NG KABATAANG PILIPINO SA CANADA/ THE FILIPINO-CANADIAN YOUTH ALLIANCE 4. Conflicts and Collaborations: 87 Building Trust in Transnational South Africa SAM BULLINGTON AND AMANDA LOCK SWARR 5. Feminist Academic and Activist Praxis in Service of the Transnational 105 LINDA PEAKE AND KAREN DE SOUZA 6. Still Playing with Fire: Intersectionality, Activism, 124 and NGOized Feminism SANGTIN WRITERS (Reena, Richa Nagar, Richa Singh, and Surbala) Part III. Representations and Reclamations 7. So Much to Remind Us We Are Dancing on Other People’s Blood: 147 Moving toward Artistic Excellence, Moving from Silence to Speech, Moving in Water, with Ananya Dance Theatre OMISE’EKE NATASHA TINSLEY, ANANYA CHATTERJEA, HUI NIU WILCOX, AND SHANNON GIBNEY 8. Remapping the Americas: A Transnational Engagement 166 with Creative Tensions of Community Arts DEBORAH BARNDT 9. Envisioning Justice: The Politics and Possibilities 192 of Transnational Feminist Film RACHEL SILVEY Continuing Conversations 206 CRITICAL TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST PRAXIS CONTRIBUTORS (Danielle Bouchard, Piya Chatterjee, Jigna Desai, Karen de Souza, Diane Detournay, Richa Nagar, Linda Peake, Rachel Silvey, Amanda Lock Swarr, and Hui Niu Wilcox) About the Editors and Contributors 219 Index 227 vi Contents ...