ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses feminist scholar-activism and its diverse actions, spaces, and scales within and beyond the neoliberal academy. It highlights how feminist scholar-activists engage in research that involves collaboration with grassroots movements and also creates community and carves spaces for difference and decolonisation within the academy. The various methods feminist scholar-activists deploy in their work are explored, as well as the ways they forge ethical relations with communities and adopt a feminist ethics of care attuned to power dynamics in relations. Specifically, the chapter addresses the challenges of engaging in feminist scholar-activism in the neoliberal academy. It also illuminates the challenges of doing feminist alliance work, including that of co-authorship, in anti-racist and decolonial struggles, as well as in transnational feminist and academic communities, and the challenges of navigating differences across geographical, socio-political, and cultural contexts.
