Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations - Couverture souple

Brah, Avtar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913380084 ISBN 13 : 9781913380083

Editeur : Goldsmiths Press, 2022

Synopsis

A transdisciplinary study of the ways in which mobilities assume social forms and result in multiple belongings.

In Decolonial Imaginings, Avtar Brah offers a transdisciplinary study of the ways in which mobilities assume social forms and result in multiple belongings. Situated within the confluence of decolonial feminist theory, border theory, and diaspora studies, the book explores borders and boundaries and how politics of connectivity are produced in and through struggles over “difference.” Brah examines multiple formations of power embedded in the intersections between gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality. She analyzes this intersectionality in relation to diaspora; theorizes the relationship between diaspora, law, and literature; and between affect, memory, and cultural politics.
 
Discussing the crossings of impervious borders, Brah foregrounds the economies of abandonment, particularly the plight of people in boats in the Mediterranean, a number of whom perished because of a catalogue of failures by NATO warships and European coast guards. She revisits Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s notion of “nomad thought” and Braidotti’s feminist reworking of it, and it seeks to assess this framework’s value today. She analyzes the politics of “Black” in Britain with a focus on feminism constituted by women of African Caribbean and South Asian background, explores stereotypic representation of Muslim women in the context of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism, and considers the complexities of the #MeToo movement and how whiteness is configured in these contestations.
 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Avtar Brah is Professor Emerita in Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published numerous books, chapters, and articles, and is a member of the Editorial Collective of Feminist Review and a member of the International Editorial Board of Identities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Goldsmiths Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913380084
• ISBN 13: 9781913380083
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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