Description - Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia by Gita Rajan
Transnational feminism has been critical to feminist theorizing in the global North in the last few decades. Such a broad term, transnational feminism can become vague and dislocated, losing its ability to name specific critiques of and responses to empire, race, and globalization that are emboldened by its transnational purview. This volume encompasses an expansive engagement and exploration of transnational South Asian feminist movements, networks, and critiques within the context of the popular in South Asia and the diaspora. The issues that now loom as priorities in a global context are addressed in original essays by the contributors of this book, especially as they operate both in a situated and the diasporic imaginary of South Asia. While the idea of the popular in South Asia has often been circumscribed by the spaces and cultural politics of Bollywood, this interdisciplinary volume takes an innovative turn to examine how academics, advocates, activists, and artists envision the inroads and consequences of nationalism, globalization and/or empire, which continually remake communities and alter needs and allegiances.
Through ethnography, literature, dance, cinema, activism, poetry, and storytelling, these essays simultaneously traverse the terrains of the popular and social justice using a focused, multidisciplinary gendered lens. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
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