Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms

Nina Lykke is Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark.Redi Koobak is Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Strathclyde, UK.Petra Bakos is a literary scholar with a PhD in comparative gender studies from the Central European University (CEU), Hungary/Austria.Swati Arora is Lecturer in Performance and Global South Studies at Queen Mary University of London, UK.Kharnita Mohamed is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa.

“Assembling urgent conversations in decolonial, transnational, and intersectional feminist research from a rich array of geopolitical perspectives, the editors of Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms compellingly argue for the need to transgress methodological nationalism. The book will be a vital resource for scholars interested in genre- and border-crossing knowledge production.” Prof. Neda Atanasoski, Dept. of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland College Park, USA; Author of Humanitarian Violence: the U.S. Deployment of Diversity (2013) “This volume of outstanding essays contributes to current conversations on pluriversality, by bringing together transnational, intersectional and decolonial feminist methods and perspectives. It draws on a multiplicity of locations and modes of knowing ・ and forms of writing ・ to radically rethink key questions around justice and solidarity, for feminists across the Global North and South.” Prof. Srila Roy, University of Witwaterstrand, South Africa; Author of Changing the Subject. Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India (2022) “This edited collection is, as Marisol de Cadena and Mario Blaser (2018) express it “A world of many worlds”, capaciously conversing across South/East/North/ West disparate contexts, using a smorgasbord of academic and creative genres to transgress methodological nationalism. It is an experimental and adventurous text, which includes both emerging and seasoned academic voices. One gets the feeling that the process of pluriversal conversing and writing the book was as significant as the book product for the authors.” Vivienne Bozalek, Emerita Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Co-editor of Higher Education Hauntologies. Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-come (2021)

• Epigraph: Sister Ode; 1. Colliding Words and Worlds: Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms; Part I: Myriad Tongues and Multiple Emotions (On Affected Writing and Ethics); 2. A Black Woman Died at The Intersection(ality) Today; 3. Pedagogies of Precarity; 4. Scenes of Precarity: Where is the Exit?; 5. Affected Writing: A Decolonial, Intersectional Feminist Engagement with Narratives of Sexual Violence; 6. Notes from My Field Diary: Revisiting Emotions in the Field; 7. Whiteness as Friction: Vulnerability as a Method in Transnational Research; 8. From Affective Pedagogies to Affected Pedagogues – A Conversation; 9. “I will Meet You at Twilight”: On Subjectivity, Identity and Transnational Intersectional Feminist Research; 10. Living an African Feminist Life: Decolonial Perspectives – A Conversation; Part II: Portals of Possibility (On Methodologies); 11. Can Methodologies be Decolonial? Towards a Relational Experiential Epistemic Togetherness; 12. Reading Transnationally: Literary Transduction as a Feminist Tool; 13. Writing Love Letters Across Borders: A Conversation on Indigenous-Centred Methodologies; Part III: Intrepid Journeys (On the Epistemic Implications of Geopolitical Situatedness); 14. #MeToo Through a Decolonial Feminist Lens: Critical Reflections on Transnational Online Activism Against Sexual Violence; 15. Translocality, a Decolonial Take on Feminist Strategies; 16. Re-Routing the Sexual: A Regional and Relational Lens in Theorizing Sexuality in the Middle East (West Asia); 17. Beautiful Diversity? Diversity Rhetoric, Ethnicized Visions and Nesting Post-Soviet Hegemonies in the Multimedia Project The Ethnic Origins of Beauty; 18. Reducing Costs While Optimizing Health? A Transnational Feminist Engagement with Personalized Medicine; 19. The Meanings of Chronopolitics and Temporal Awareness in Feminist Ethnographic Research; 20. Disrupting the Colonial Gaze: Towards Alternative Sexual Justice Engagements with Young People in South Africa; 21. Studying Happiness in Post-Colonial and Post-Apartheid South Africa: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations; 22. On Decolonization, the University and Transnational Solidarities – A Conversation