Women in Academia Crossing North–South Borders

Zuleika Arashiro is academic visitor at the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies at the Australian National University.Malba Barahona is research fellow at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.

• Introduction: Thinking through Our Voices; Zuleika Arashiro, Eugenia Demuro, and Malba BarahonaChapter 1. Testimony of a Pilgrimage: (Un)Learning and Re-Learning with the South, Rosalba IcazaChapter 2. The Significance of Being a Mexican Academic Woman in Rural Minnesota, Marisol ReyesChapter 3. My Decolonizing Path: An Experience of “Belonging and Becoming”, Malba BarahonaChapter 4. Life as a White Academic in the Global South: Colonial Privilege and Standpoint, Jeanne SimonChapter 5. Becoming Woman: On Exile and Belonging to the Borderlands, Sara MottaChapter 6. Delinking from the Zero Degree: Reflections from the Antipodes, Eugenia DemuroChapter 7. Silence and Voice in the Other South, Zuleika Arashiro

Exceptional historic times demand knowledge and knowers that go beyond the trivial and push the canon toward visibility of marginality as well as show the way to epistemic resistance and justice. Women in Academia Crossing North-South Borders embodies this push.... One of the main advantages of Women in Academia is that it is a product of vibrant, collective solidarity.... Legitimizing marginal women's voices, articulating shifting knowledge patterns and identities, and showing the epistemological alternative of protest are important contributions of Women in Academia. They make the book very contemporary and needed in view of current US and global contexts of erasure and oppression of epistemological difference and diverse identities. Deeply emotional and inspirational, the book also stands out as a rebellious manifesto against authoritarian regimes, and is a must read for anyone who is interested in epistemic and social justice.