Full Description
Introducing and engaging with womanist frameworks to center the lives of Global South women who live under colonial oppressions, this collection centers the consciousness, spirituality, philosophy, wisdom, community institutions, and ecologies found in a variety of Global South regions and diasporas.
Diasporic Womanist Sociology offers a decolonial approach to critical research, interpretive frameworks, pedagogy, mentorship, activism, and building academia-community collectives of solidarity, presenting womanism as a practical framework for personal and professional development for sociologists and scholars in other fields. With contributors from South Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and North America, this book draws on tenets of womanism to shape their practice and engagement with students, scholars, and activists, especially those of the Global South and its diasporas.
This volume makes critical contributions to fields ranging from Gender and Women Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, and Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory, and can be assigned to undergraduate and graduate students to explore the foundational work of Black Feminism and gender non-conforming people of color and an inclusive framework of identity, spirituality, and pursuit of social justice.
Contents
Introduction to Diasporic Womanist Sociology Part I: Diasporic Womanism: Decolonial Theory, Method, edagogy, and Vocational Praxis 1 Diasporic Womanism: A Decolonial Project of Global South Diasporas and Allies 2 A Diasporic Womanist Critique of Higher Education and Sociology 3 Towards a Womanist Methodology Part II: Black Womanist Knowledges: Midwifery, Religion, and Spirituality 4 A Labor of Love: A Womanist Exploration of the Historical and Contemporary Formations of Black Birthing Hush Harbors 5 A Case for Sonic Womanism: Spiritual Activism in Black Women's Sound 6 When Black Protestant Women Enter: Introducing Womanist Theological Methods to Sociology of Religion Part III: Community Survival: Racial Violence, Genocide, and Caste 7 Our Multiple Deaths 8 From the Trenches of Dalit Insurgencies 9 Yes, the Subaltern Speaks: US Imperialism, Genocidal "South" Korea, and In/visible Womanism in Jeju Part IV: Diasporic Womanist Migrations: Reflexivity and Positionality 10 Becoming through Collaboration: A Caribbean Womanist Ethnography with Indigenous Women in Guyana 11 Stitching in Knots: Art-Making as Knowledge-Making in the Chinese-West Indian Diaspora(s) 12 Knowing Your Place: Home Is More than a Passport for Diaspora Women
