ABSTRACT
Global Feminist Autoethnographies bears witness to our displacements, disruptions, and distress as tenured faculty, faculty on temporary contracts, graduate students, and people connected to academia during COVID-19.
The authors document their experiences arising within academia and beyond it, gathering narratives from across the globe—Australia, Canada, Ghana, Finland, India, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States along with transnational engagements with Bolivia, Iran, Nepal, and Taiwan. In an era where the older rules about work and family related to our survival, wellbeing, and dignity are rapidly being transformed, this book shows that distress and traumas are emerging and deepening across the divides within and between the global North and South, depending on the intersecting structures that have affected each of us. It documents our distress and trauma and how we have worked to lift each other up amidst severe precarities.
A global co-written project, this book shows how we are moving to decolonize our scholarship. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary array of scholars in the areas of intersectionality, gender, family, race, sexuality, migration, and global and transnational sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction: Displacements, disruptions, and distress
part I|93 pages
Disruptions
chapter Chapter 1|15 pages
The pandemic and our entangled lives
chapter Chapter 2|15 pages
The inequality the pandemic unveils
chapter Chapter 3|10 pages
Disruption and silence
chapter Chapter 4|12 pages
“Network problems”
chapter Chapter 5|12 pages
Navigating empowerment and activism in the ivory tower
chapter Chapter 6|11 pages
Writing on self, together
chapter Chapter 7|13 pages
Labor transformations in the academy under COVID-19 through the lens of intersectional feminism
part II|98 pages
Distress
chapter Chapter 10|11 pages
Gendered life transitions and the blurring of work-family boundaries during COVID-19
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Trying my best to be my badass self
chapter Chapter 12|14 pages
Invoking abuelita epistemologies for academic transformation in the coronavirus age
chapter Chapter 14|14 pages
Black women, work, and COVID-19
chapter Chapter 15|12 pages
On the margins of hyperinvisibility and hypervisibility
part III|105 pages
Displacements