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In a current era marked by carceral logics, authoritarianism, and white supremacy, there has never been a greater need for the tools and inspiration that radical feminism provides. In Insurgent Visions, Chandra Talpade Mohanty explores methods of anticapitalist resistance to radically transform everyday life. She presents insurgent feminism - a theory and praxis with which to contest and replace the practices of violence grounded in racialized gender relations. Insurgent feminism unsettles existing power structures in order to enact new relationships and forge new subjectivities, epistemologies, and communities. Drawing on organizing efforts in the US-Mexico borderlands, Palestine/Israel, and Kashmir, as well as on abolitionist and Dalit feminisms, Mohanty contends that the knowledge that emerges from the experiences of marginalized groups who are struggling for economic, racial, and social justice is key for imagining feminist futures. She also turns to the neoliberal landscape of higher education in the United States and the difficulties of instituting transformative antiracist and anti-imperialist feminist knowledge building. Mapping new challenges for radical praxis, Mohanty reconfigures feminist studies while offering a model for decolonial cross-border organizing and solidarity.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Insurgent Feminisms: Genealogies, Struggles, Futures 1
Part I. Capitalist Scripts, Imperial Projects, Decolonizing Feminism
1. Anticapitalist Feminist Struggle and Transnational Solidarity / Interview with Jesper Nordahl 29
2. Gendering Justice, Building Alternative Futures / with Sarah Miraglia 47
3. Mapping Transnational Feminist Engagements: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Solidarity / with Linda Carty 83
4. Borders and Bridges: Securitized Regimes, Racialized Citizenship, and Insurgent Feminist Praxis 119
Part II. Neoliberal Academic Landscapes, Transnational Feminisms, Cross-Border Solidarity
5. US Empire and the Project of Women's Studies 141
6. Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis / with M. Jacqui Alexander 159
7. Transnational Feminist Crossings: On Neoliberalism and Radical Critique 183
8. The Challenge of Solidarity: Notes on Transnational, Insurgent Feminist Praxis 207
Bibliography 217
Index 239
