ABSTRACT

This edited volume brings transnational feminisms in conversation with intersectional and decolonial approaches. The conversation is pluriversal; it voices and reflects upon a plurality of geo- and corpopolitical as well as epistemic locations in specific Global South/East/North/West contexts. The aim is to explore analytical modes that encourage transgressing methodological nationalisms which sustain unequal global power relations and which are still ingrained in the disciplinary perspectives that define much social science and humanities research.

A main focus of the volume is methodological. It asks how an engagement with transnational, intersectional, and decolonial feminisms can stimulate border crossings. Boundaries in academic knowledge-building, shaped by the limitations imposed by methodological nationalisms, are challenged in the book. The same applies to boundaries of conventional ・ disembodied and ethically unaffected ・ academic writing modes. The transgressive methodological aims are also pursued through mixing genres and shifting boundaries between academic and creative writing.

Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms is intended for broad global audiences of researchers, teachers, professionals, students (from undergraduate to postgraduate levels), activists, and NGOs, interested in questions about decoloniality, intersectionality, and transnational feminisms, as well as in methodologies for boundary transgressing knowledge-building.

chapter 1|25 pages

Colliding Words and Worlds

Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms

part I|93 pages

Myriad Tongues and Multiple Emotions (On Affected Writing and Ethics)

chapter 3|4 pages

Pedagogies of Precarity

chapter 4|5 pages

Scenes of Precarity

Where Is the Exit?

chapter 5|14 pages

Affected Writing

A Decolonial, Intersectional Feminist Engagement With Narratives of Sexual Violence

chapter 6|12 pages

Notes From My Field Diary

Revisiting Emotions in the Field

chapter 7|5 pages

Whiteness as Friction

Vulnerability as a Method in Transnational Research

chapter 9|14 pages

"I Will Meet You at Twilight"

On Subjectivity, Identity, and Transnational Intersectional Feminist Research

part II|51 pages

Portals of Possibility (On Methodologies)

chapter 11|14 pages

Can Methodologies Be Decolonial?

Towards a Relational Experiential Epistemic Togetherness

chapter 12|16 pages

Reading Transnationally

Literary Transduction as a Feminist Tool

chapter 13|17 pages

Writing Love Letters Across Borders

A Conversation on Indigenous-Centred Methodologies

part III|129 pages

Intrepid Journeys (On the Epistemic Implications of Geopolitical Situatedness)

chapter 14|15 pages

#MeToo Through a Decolonial Feminist Lens

Critical Reflections on Transnational Online Activism Against Sexual Violence

chapter 15|7 pages

Translocality

A Decolonial Take on Feminist Strategies

chapter 16|12 pages

Re-Routing the Sexual

A Regional and Relational Lens in Theorizing Sexuality in the Middle East (West Asia)

chapter 17|17 pages

Beautiful Diversity?

Diversity Rhetoric, Ethnicized Visions, and Nesting Post-Soviet Hegemonies in the Multimedia Project The Ethnic Origins of Beauty

chapter 18|14 pages

Reducing Costs While Optimizing Health?

A Transnational Feminist Engagement With Personalized Medicine

chapter 20|15 pages

Disrupting the Colonial Gaze

Towards Alternative Sexual Justice Engagements With Young People in South Africa

chapter 21|13 pages

Studying Happiness in Postcolonial and Post-Apartheid South Africa

Theoretical and Methodological Considerations