ABSTRACT

In a world where frontiers are militarised and classifications systems defining rights and belonging are reinforced, transnational feminist agendas are fundamental. We use the concept of ‘scholarships of hope’ to analyse the diversity of feminist struggles and imaginaries in diverse geopolitical locations.

Dreaming Global Change, Doing Local Feminisms explores subversive practices of knowledge production that challenge Eurocentric scientific models and agendas. The book also explores the tensions and challenges of doing transnational feminist theory at the crossroads between feminist scholarship and feminist activism.

In conjunction, these chapters provide a solid analysis framed by feminist methodologies opening complexities and contradictions of individual and collective feminist and trans identity struggles in Argentina, Belarus, Pakistan, Sweden, Taiwan and Turkey. These identities and struggles are rooted in transnational and local genealogies that go beyond the narratives of the West as the origin for democracy and human rights, providing powerful agendas for alternative futures.

chapter 1|19 pages

Introduction

Transnational feminism: a working agenda

chapter 2|19 pages

Transnational messiness, political subjectivity and feminism across borders

In conversation with three Pakistani activists

chapter 3|19 pages

Women resisting border regimes

Two case studies from Eastern and Northern Europe

chapter 4|23 pages

In, against (and beyond?) the state 1

Women’s rights, global gender equality regime, and feminist counterpublics in 21st-century Turkey

chapter 5|18 pages

Is the social democracy gone?

Performing feminisms in times of right-wing populism

chapter 6|19 pages

Dreaming of home

A feminist strategy for importing the Nordic model to Taiwan

chapter 7|20 pages

Make(ing) room in transnational surges

Pakistani Khwaja Sira organising

chapter 8|21 pages

Putting (left) politics back into (Western) feminist theory

Conversations with feminist activists and scholars in Argentina 1

chapter |2 pages

Epilogue