Transnational work for gender justice involves thinking historically, comparatively, and relationally, and it fundamentally involves addressing cartographies of power and difference. My talk focuses on the commonalities and differences in transnational translations of gender justice. I argue that an insurgent feminist lens requires understanding that racialized gender is key to mapping borders, histories and movements, and asking the question: how and why do women, queer and gender non-conforming people matter in understanding and responding to this moment of global pandemic and protest?
– Chandra Talpade Mohanty.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. Her work focuses on transnational feminist theory, anti-capitalist feminist praxis, anti-racist education, and the politics of knowledge.
She is author of the book entitled "Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity" (Duke University Press, 2003), and co-editor of "Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism" (Indiana University Press, 1991), "Feminist Genealogies", "Colonial Legacies", "Democratic Futures" (Routledge, 1997), "Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism" (Zed Press, 2008), "The Sage Handbook on Identities" (Sage Publications, 2010), and "Feminist Freedom Warriors" (Haymarket Books, 2018). Mohanty is co-series editor with Dana Olwan of "Reimagining Comparative Feminist Studies" for Palgrave/Springer and Co-creator with Linda Carty of the feminist freedom warriors digital video archive (http://feministfreedomwarriors.org).
She is a member of the advisory boards of fourteen journals including Signs, A Journal Of Women in Culture and Society, Transformations, The Journal of Inclusive Pedagogy and Scholarship, Feminist Africa (South Africa), Asian Women (Korea), Feminist Economics, The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Gender and Politics, and Journal of Cultural Anthropology. She serves on the International Advisory Boards of GEMMA (European M.A. in WGS), University of Granada, Spain, the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on racism (CEMFOR), at Uppsala University, Sweden, the Center for Intersectional Justice, Berlin, Germany, the Project on Armed Conflict Resolution and People’s Rights, India, and on the Academic Advisory Council, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Advisory Circle, Jews Against Anti-Muslim Racism (JAAMR). She was a member of the Indigenous and Feminist of Colour Solidarity delegation to Palestine in 2011 and has served as a consultant/evaluator for the Association of American Colleges & Universities, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and UN Women.
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