Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis

Amanda Lock Swarr is Assistant Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Richa Nagar is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She coauthored, with Sangtin Writers, Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Theorizing Transnational Feminist PraxisRICHA NAGAR AND AMANDA LOCK SWARRPart I. Decolonizing Transnational Feminisms 1. Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: Transnational Feminism as Radical PraxisM. JACQUI ALEXANDER AND CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY2. Disavowed Legacies and Honorable Thievery: The Work of the "Transnational" in Feminist and LGBTQ StudiesJIGNA DESAI, DANIELLE BOUCHARD, AND DIANE DETOURNAYPart II. Dialogical Journeys 3. Seeing Beyond the State: Toward Transnational Feminist OrganizingGERALDINE PRATT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PHILIPPINE WOMEN CENTRE OF BC AND UGNAYAN NG KABATAANG PILIPINO SA CANADA/ THE FILIPINO-CANADIAN YOUTH ALLIANCE4. Conflicts and Collaborations: Building Trust in Transnational South AfricaSAM BULLINGTON AND AMANDA LOCK SWARR5. Feminist Academic and Activist Praxis in Service of the TransnationalLINDA PEAKE AND KAREN DE SOUZA6. Still Playing with Fire: Intersectionality, Activism, and NGOized FeminismSANGTIN 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: Moving toward Artistic Excellence, Moving from Silence to Speech, Moving in Water, with Ananya Dance TheatreOMISE’EKE NATASHA TINSLEY, ANANYA CHATTERJEA, HUI NIU WILCOX, AND SHANNON GIBNEY8. Remapping the Americas: A Transnational Engagement with Creative Tensions of Community ArtsDEBORAH BARNDT9. Envisioning Justice: The Politics and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist FilmRACHEL SILVEYContinuing ConversationsCRITICAL 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 ContributorsIndex

Amanda Lock Swarr is Assistant Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Richa Nagar is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author (with Sangtin writers) of Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India.