"Insurgent Visions draws on decades of decolonial, anti-racist, and feminist work by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, now answering to a global present marked by militarism, neoliberalism, settler colonialism, racial and religious supremacies, and the carceral state. Thinking with marginalized people of color as an analytic category and with a materialist analysis of power and injustice, Mohanty offers insurgent feminism as a challenge to the hegemony of the global right, the rise of authoritarian cultures, white supremacy and religious fundamentalisms, and the carceral systems of the nation-state. Combining single and co-authored essays, Insurgent Visions focuses on the challenge of insurgent praxis and anti-capitalist feminist futures, encapsulating feminist struggles at particular historical moments and location and mapping the intricacies, challenges, and potentialities of solidarity across borders in imagining and enacting new, liberatory feminist horizons"-- Provided by publisher.
In a current era marked by carceral logics, authoritarianism, and white supremacy, there has never been a greater need for the tools and inspiration that radical feminism provides. In Insurgent Visions, Chandra Talpade Mohanty explores methods of anticapitalist resistance to radically transform everyday life. She presents insurgent feminisma theory and praxis with which to contest and replace the practices of violence grounded in racialized gender relations. Insurgent feminism unsettles existing power structures in order to enact new relationships and forge new subjectivities, epistemologies, and communities. Drawing on organizing efforts in the US-Mexico borderlands, Palestine/Israel, and Kashmir, as well as on abolitionist and Dalit feminisms, Mohanty contends that the knowledge that emerges from the experiences of marginalized groups who are struggling for economic, racial, and social justice is key for imagining feminist futures. She also turns to the neoliberal landscape of higher education in the United States and the difficulties of instituting transformative antiracist and anti-imperialist feminist knowledge building. Mapping new challenges for radical praxis, Mohanty reconfigures feminist studies while offering a model for decolonial cross-border organizing and solidarity.
Exploring methods to radically transform everyday life, Chandra Talpade Mohanty presents insurgent feminisma theory and praxis with which to contest and replace the imperialist, heteronormative, and racialized practice of violence grounded in gender relations.
