Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability - Couverture souple

Nagar, Richa

 
9780252084409: Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability
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ISBN 10 : 0252084403 ISBN 13 : 9780252084409
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2019

Synopsis

Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars and teachers working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life?Informed by over twenty years of experiences in India and the United States, Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theatre artists, writers, and students, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. She argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richa Nagar is Professor of the College in the College of Liberal Arts and a core faculty member in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her books include Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism, Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India, and A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Difference.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252084403
ISBN 13 
9780252084409
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
318
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2019
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