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On Being and Providing “Data”: Politics of Transnational Feminist Collaboration and Academic Division of Labor

On Being and Providing “Data”: Politics of Transnational Feminist Collaboration and Academic... On Being and Providing “Data” Politics of Transnational Feminist Collaboration and Academic Division of Labor Debjani Chakravarty Cross- border collaboration has emerged as central to the discourse on transna- tional feminism as well as a methodological imperative that, I argue, needs con- stant, refl exive scrutiny. Transnational feminism is a multi- connotative subfi eld within women’s/gender/sexuality/feminist studies in the United States featuring anti- hegemonic (anti- racist, anti- colonial, anti- capitalist, etc.) writings by fem- inists, many originally from the Indian subcontinent. Th ese writings uphold the importance of praxis and interrupt a dominant notion of global sisterhood, multicultural solidarity, and conventional knowledge- making. As the fi eld of women’s/gender/sexuality/feminist studies continues to internationalize, col- laborative knowledge- making is one way to ensure epistemic justice and build global epistemological communities. Wh at does this justice look like? Who belongs and has power in this epistemological community? In this paper I investigate the meaning and nature of collaboration from the vantage of the oft en- silent non- Western collaborators of transnational feminisms located in the global South— women who almost never author scholarship or exercise authority on what gets published in the name of trans- national feminism. I argue that there http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies University of Nebraska Press

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On Being and Providing “Data” Politics of Transnational Feminist Collaboration and Academic Division of Labor Debjani Chakravarty Cross- border collaboration has emerged as central to the discourse on transna- tional feminism as well as a methodological imperative that, I argue, needs con- stant, refl exive scrutiny. Transnational feminism is a multi- connotative subfi eld within women’s/gender/sexuality/feminist studies in the United States featuring anti- hegemonic (anti- racist, anti- colonial, anti- capitalist, etc.) writings by fem- inists, many originally from the Indian subcontinent. Th ese writings uphold the importance of praxis and interrupt a dominant notion of global sisterhood, multicultural solidarity, and conventional knowledge- making. As the fi eld of women’s/gender/sexuality/feminist studies continues to internationalize, col- laborative knowledge- making is one way to ensure epistemic justice and build global epistemological communities. Wh at does this justice look like? Who belongs and has power in this epistemological community? In this paper I investigate the meaning and nature of collaboration from the vantage of the oft en- silent non- Western collaborators of transnational feminisms located in the global South— women who almost never author scholarship or exercise authority on what gets published in the name of trans- national feminism. I argue that there

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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Dec 23, 2015

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