Insurgent Visions

Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Chair and Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University and author of Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, also published by Duke University Press.

“For the last several decades, Chandra Talpade Mohanty has been an indispensable voice in radical feminist scholarship. In her brilliant new collection Insurgent Visions, as throughout her work, she urges multipronged analyses rooted in a deep understanding of the unmitigable nature of capitalist exploitation. Mohanty demonstrates how our scholarship and activism, if they adequately respond to the pressing demands of our historical moment, should help forge grounded feminist solidarities with Palestine, Kashmir, and beyond. The transnational insurgencies she advocates demand a future free of racism, transphobia, and the fascism that threatens us all.” - Angela Y. Davis “Insurgent Visions as a living record of Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s scholarly activism is a gift to all of us fighting for justice and freedom in times of escalating violence. That Mohanty’s wisdom derives from a deep and sustained engagement with community is everywhere evident in this powerful collection. Mohanty teaches us that we can only create different kinds of subjects, relationships, and worlds by insurgency, rising in revolt against imperialism, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy. Mohanty both calls for an insurgent feminism and gives us many inspired glimpses of that feminism at work. A vital and visionary contribution.” - Sara Ahmed “Insurgent Visions is an invitation to imagine new horizons of freedom and dignity, but also an invocation to refusal. Chandra Talpade Mohanty urges us to refuse the normalization of patriarchal violence in settler colonialism, neoliberal dispossession, and racialized genocide. Taking us from the university’s spaces to the US-Mexico border and the occupied territories of Palestine and Kashmir, Mohanty documents in an inspiring manner the struggles and hopes of marginalized communities.” - R. Aída Hernández Castillo

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction: Insurgent Feminisms: Genealogies, Struggles, Futures  1Part I. Capitalist Scripts, Imperial Projects, Decolonizing Feminism1. Anticapitalist Feminist Struggle and Transnational Solidarity / Interview with Jesper Nordahl  292. Gendering Justice, Building Alternative Futures / with Sarah Miraglia 473. Mapping Transnational Feminist Engagements: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Solidarity / with Linda Carty  834. Borders and Bridges: Securitized Regimes, Racialized Citizenship, and Insurgent Feminist Praxis  119Part II. Neoliberal Academic Landscapes, Transnational Feminisms, Cross-Border Solidarity5. US Empire and the Project of Women’s Studies  1416. Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis / with M. Jacqui Alexander  1597. Transnational Feminist Crossings: On Neoliberalism and Radical Critique  1838. The Challenge of Solidarity: Notes on Transnational, Insurgent Feminist Praxis  207Bibliography  217Index  239