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Index
Aag Lagi Hai Jangal Ma, 21, 176–182
Aalochana, Women’s Research and Documentation Centre, Pune, 93–96
abandoned field, 17, 50–51; abandoning fieldwork, 82–83, 90
Abbas, Nuzhat, 70
academic: knowledge, reshaping of, 89–90, 106–107, 118; merit, 89; and non-academic actors/ research collaborators, 98, 121; and non-academic products/ work, 96, 129, 137; productivity, 34, 41, 89
academy: Anglophone, 35, 53, 90, 106, 129; northern/ U.S. academy and academics, 16–17, 37, 92, 96, 98–101, 108, 120–121, 141
accountability, 13, 35, 37, 45–46, 136; in alliance work, 174; enacting, 127, 132–133; methodology of, 174; transnational feminist praxis and, 90, 95
activism: academic labor and, 102–103, 119, 137; labor of, 126; reflexive, 21, 132; and research, 169–170
activist scholarship, 2, 4, 12, 22; critique of NGOs through, 130–133; professionalization of, 173–175
affect, 13, 15, 38, 41, 168, 175, 183n1; defined, 184n8
Africans, 52, 54, 58; attitudes of Asians towards, 63–64, 69; segregation of, 71–76, 91; stereotyping of Asians among, 61–62, 65–66; under colonial rule, 83
agency, 84, 159, 160; agent of knowledge production, 157
agendas, collaborative, 37, 107
Ahmed, Sara, 5
Akkoç, Nebahat, 45
Alcoff, Linda Martin, 2
Alexander, Jacqui, 163
alliance/ alliance work, 2, 5, 12–15, 23, 38, 43, 97, 161, 163–167; across borders, 11, 21, 22, 125; desire in, 157; dreams and commitments in, 20; grappling with specific political questions and shared political agenda in, 169; interracial, 35; intersectionality and, 175–178; messiness of representation in, 159; organizational work and, 44; politics of, 23; professionalization in, 173–175; responsibility in, 46; representation and labor of writing in, 169–173; and Sangtin Yatra, 9–10, 125, 128–129, 134, 140, 142; solidarity and, 11, 21; staging truths in, 167; trust and, 12, 167–168; truths of storytelling and co-authorship in, 21, 167–182
All India Muslim Personal Law Board, 113, 114
Altınay, Ayşe Gül, 44–45
Aminzade, Ron, 31
Ananya Dance Theatre, 167–168
Anganwadis, 190n7
Ansari, Reshma, 102, 126, 129, 133, 171
anti-disciplinary feminist scholarship, 89
Anupamlata, 102, 116, 126, 129, 133, 171
Aotearoa/New Zealand, 88
Appadurai, Arjun, 86
Armstrong, Elisabeth, 162
Asians, 31, 33, 35, 50, 69, 100; attitudes toward Africans, 63–64; identity among, 65–66; identity politics in postcolonial Tanzania, 52–53; and language in Dar es Salaam, 51, 58; normative and racialized categories, 54, 83; segregation of, 55–56, 71–76; sex workers, 68; stereotyping of, 61–62, 65. See also Dar es Salaam; South Asian communities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Aslan, Özlem, 42
Association for India’s Development (AID-MN), 136, 137, 139, 141, 147
Association of American Geographers (AAG), 163
Ateşle Oynamak, 45
authenticity, 9, 10, 12, 14, 83, 93–95, 138
authorship, 96–97, 120–121; and authorizing, 172; claims, 139; of struggles, 170–172
autobiography, 15, 102, 117, 171
Avadh College, 27
Awadhi, 21, 26, 27, 137, 139, 176
Babri Masjid, 33
backlash, 35, 102, 129–130, 136–137, 146, 148
backstaging of political conversations, 172–173
Bajpayee, Vibha, 102, 116, 126, 129, 133, 171
Behar, Ruth, 55
Bender, Thomas, 100
Beyond Resistance Everything, 1
Bhartiya Janata Party, 33
Boatman and the Pundit, The, 6–7, 182
body/bodies, 13, 15, 17, 38, 40–43, 64–66, 119, 184n8; mobility and, 47; and violence, 116, 131, 155
Bora, Aksu, 44–45
border crossings, 5–6, 8–12, 18–20, 107; collaboration and, 101, 107–108, 111–115, 120–123; as geographies of engagement, 120–121; interrogating “relevance” with, 105–108; from partial knowledges to collaborative, 108–110; producing a methodology to speak with the Sangtin Collective, 115–118; as responsibility in the context of an encounter, 110–115; with situated solidarities, 85–89; through and beyond Sangtin Yatra, 125–129; in translation, 111–118, 121–123; transnational border crossings as dialogues, 108
borders, 18–20, 108; academia-activism, 2; alliances and coauthorship across, 21, 22, 36, 125–140, 170, 174; collaboration/ collaborative journeys across, 38, 98, 101, 107, 108; geographical, sociopolitical, cultural, linguistic and institutional, 15, 18, 20, 22, 37, 90, 100; north-south, 15; resonance across, 20; telling stories across, 26, 47; translations across, 15
Boulder, 34
Bundeli: activists, 95; women, 91
Cape Town, South Africa, 22, 46–49
Carroll, Berenice A., 160
castes/ casteism, 102, 103, 127, 130, 132, 136, 142; intersections with race and language in Dar es Salaam, 71–76; Mahila Samakhya program and, 116–117; and racial otherness, 8–10; scheduled castes, 116; untouchability and, 28, 41, 43, 117, 131–132, 142, 185n10, 185n13
categories: normative, 54; problematizing, 2–3, 37, 52–57, 65, 83–84, 94, 108
Chambers, Iain, 70
Chatterjea, Ananya, 167–168, 175
Chatterjee, Piya, 24–26, 40–43, 159–160, 184n2
Chughtai, Ismat, 40–41
childhood, 24, 26, 34, 37, 72, 75, 98, 127; and the “rural girl child,” 131; silence, and protest, 149–150, 154
China, 86–87
Chowk, 45–46
chronology, 15–16
claims, 41, 42, 86; authority, 159; authorship, 139; equality, 148; knowledge, 13, 174; language, 70–71; about power and representation, 94; truth, 11, 13, 21–22, 148, 163, 167, 175
class system of the intellect, 160–161, 173
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) Program, 46
coauthorship, 20, 128, 121, 159; Boatman and the Pundit, The, 6–7; coauthored diary, 6–11; critique, translations, and, 101–104; as dialogue and alliance work, 162–163, 167–182; engagement with geography and, 161; forging generative connections across struggles while remaining grounded in their soil, 169; Ghoonghats and Withdrawals, 10–11; intersectionality and alliance in, 175–178; multilocational, 14, 128; political theater and, 172–173; radical vulnerability, reflexivity, and, 14–22; representation in, 169–173; Rethinking “Here” and “There,” 8–10; struggles, 21–22; truths of, 11–12, 166–175. See also storytelling
collaboration, 15, 18–22, 36–37, 90, 96–97; across borders, 98, 101, 107; agendas, 37, 107; as alliances 171, 178; border crossings, 101, 107–108, 111–115, 120–123; collective identity and, 128; feminist postcolonial geographies, 118–123; languages of, 98–104; politics of knowledge production and, 129–138; possibilities and contradictions of, 144–148; praxis, 20–21, 141; with sangtins, 102–103, 117, 144–157; theory and praxis of north-south, 118
commitments, 16, 20, 34–36, 42, 51, 115; ethical, 3, 62; political, 89–90; shared, 173
communalism, 67, 103, 111, 114, 127, 130, 132, 136, 142
communal organizations, 35, 52
community/ communities: -based dialogue, 148; language and, 70–80; of meaning, 173–175; neighborhoods, 6, 33, 65, 130; perception of, 57–61; process of becoming, 167; of singularities, 168
community theater, 40–42. See also street theater
complicities, 3–4, 12–13, 21, 86, 170, 174
confrontations, 9, 42–43, 63–65, 126; with dressing, 65–66
Connolly-Shaffer, Patricia, 11
Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), 46–47
contextualization of identity theory, 69–70
contradictions, 4, 11, 14, 66, 120, 125; between academic and nonacademic realms, 106; of collaboration, 144–148; integrating conflicts and, 88; of location, 128, 138, 174; positionality and, 83–84
conversations as research method, 11, 13, 14, 22, 55–56, 140–141, 172–173
counter-topographies, 97
crisis of representation, 82
critical pedagogy. See pedagogy
crossing borders. See border crossings
cult of professionalism and expertise, 103, 135, 137–138; skepticism of, 173–175
cutting-edge: problematization of, 86, 100, 106, 108, 110, 114
Da Costa, Dia, 13
dalit, 7, 8, 9, 28, 45, 48, 120, 127, 130, 132, 142, 144, 154, 160, 165, 183n6; -sawarn dichotomy, 171
Dar es Salaam, 31, 33–37, 50–51; community perceptions, 57–61; dressing for ethnography in, 64–66; ethnographic research in, 61–62; Gujarati speakers in, 58; Ithna Asheris in, 58–59; languages in, 70–80; problematizing categories in, 54; race, power, and language in, 71–76; racial categories in, 52–53; reconciling political ethics with cultural ethics in, 62–64; situatedness and social relationships in making of life stories in, 66–80; social boundaries in, 55–56
“Dar es Salaam: Making Peace with an Abandoned Field,” 17
Davies, Carole Boyce, 5
deconstructivist theory, 2
desire: and coauthorship, 159; and the political, 157
development: critique of development and democratic state in Aag Lagi Hai, 176–182; meanings of, 137; and needs, 155–156; no-entry signals and, 155–157; NGOs, 125, 130; patriarchy and, 127; rural, 142; and state violence, 166; and women’s empowerment, 7, 127, 164
Dhoomil, 150
dialogue, 24, 41, 46, 102; across locations, 12, 88, 108, 172; coauthorship as, 163; co-constitutive, 148, 160; collaboration and, 107, 110; community-based, 148; cycle of, 132; empowerment through, 131, 140; fieldwork, 82; knowledge embodied in, 140; NGO work and, 126–127, 132; power and, 162; sustaining difficult, 148; third-world and first-world, 118–119; translation and, 45; triggered by collaboration, 21
Diddee, Jayamala, 30
differential consciousness, 5
Do Haath, 40
domestic violence, 37, 91, 150–155, 176; interrelationship between communal violence and, 111–112
donor-driven programs, 37–38, 101, 102, 131
dreams/ dreaming, 12, 25, 33, 37, 42–43, 47, 140, 147, 168; in alliance work, 167; coauthored, 51, 128; for society, 154
dress/ dressing, 64–66
Dreze, Jean, 105–106
East Africa, 33, 50, 52, 76–78, 83, 100
Ek Aur Neemsaar, 20, 39, 47, 129, 164, 165, 167
Elements of Islamic Studies, 77
El Kilombo Intergaláctico, 1, 163
emotion, 15, 20, 41, 46, 168, 183n1, 189n10; love, 5, 23, 26–35, 50, 167, 175, 182
empowerment, 128, 132–133, 165–166; collaborative theories and methodologies of, 118; through dialogue, 131, 140; everyday confrontations with, 165; intellectual and political empowerment and disempowerment, 7, 183n6, 189n9; reclaiming and redefining, 128, 139, 148; and violence, 92–93, 95; and women, 7, 102, 126–128, 136, 164–165
encounters, ix, 107, 125, 169; autobiography and, 131; and conversations as research methods, 11, 22; with development machinery, 178; donor-driven programs and, 37, 92, 102; face-to-face, 89; and knowledge making, 3, 5, 17, 19, 89, 102; with motherhood, 127; and radical vulnerability, 13–15; and Sangtin Yatra, 125; situated, 71; social categories and, 94
engagement, 2–6, 20–21, 34, 39, 52, 89; across north-south, 15; cross-border and multi-sited, 12, 173–174; differential consciousness and, 5; ethical, 17; ethnogeographical, 80; feminist, 15, 17, 174; geography of, 119–120, 161; with identity and positionality, 80; with knowledge production, 177; model of active, 4; with norms of professionalism and expertise, 125; political, 91–92, 96, 99, 101; politics of negotiation and, 13; with reflexive practices, 82; representation and, 159; speaking-with model of, 85; with stories, 13–14; theater and poetics of, 39; translation and, 16
entanglements, 15, 24, 41, 51, 103, 110
epistemic hierarchies, 3
epistemic violence, 3, 5, 45, 160–163; and epistemic justice, 22; interrupting, 163
“Epistemology for the Next Revolution, An,” 2
epistemology of trustworthiness, 174
ethics: of encounter, 5; reconciliation of political with cultural, 62–64; of relationships and choices, 82; of research, 3, 12–15; of social change, 21
ethnogeographies, 57, 106; feminist, 17, 55–57
ethnographic research, 15, 37, 61–62; author’s identity and, 82, 84; dressing for, 64–66; feminist, 18; on street theater, 93
ethnographies: of activism, 4; critical, 35, 51, 61, 99
events, 5, 15, 18, 45, 68, 88, 105, 167; political, 55–56; religious, 59
experience, 4, 9–14, 19, 21–22, 44, 52–55, 83, 87, 103, 110, 150, 159–160, 162–163, 166, 170, 172; praxis and, 167; seeking commonality on the basis of, 88, 125
expertise, 19, 20–21, 45, 50, 98, 101, 103, 117, 177; cult of professionalism and, 135, 137, 138, 173; knowledge making and experts, 6, 7, 83, 100, 139, 140, 159, 162, 165, 185n13, 189n2; and nonexperts, 118; Sangtin Yatra and politics of, 125, 127, 131–132, 135
Faust, David, 36
feelings, 15, 20, 41, 46, 112, 125, 168, 183n1, 184n8, 189n10; of love, 5, 23, 26–35, 50, 167, 175, 182; from the past, 149; politics of recognition and, 156; politics of representation and, 84
feminism: accountability in, 37; dress and, 64–66; empowerment and, 165; global, 12, 119–120; poetry and, 42; postcolonial and grassroots, 37; rural women and, 131–132; and Sangtin Yatra, 154; segregation of women in SKMS and, 10–11; U.S. third world, 5
feminist alliance work. See alliance work
feminist engagement, 15, 17, 174
feminist ethno-geography, 17, 55–57, 106
feminist fieldwork, 17–19, 51–52, 82–83; border crossings in, 86; crisis of representation in, 82; difficulties in, 89, 124–125; politics of, 51, 64, 90–91; reflexivity and, 82–83
feminist postcolonial geographies, 118–123
feminist research: affective turn in, 13, 183n1; collaborative, 90, 96–97; dressing for, 64–66; ethics of, 3, 12–15; ethnographic, 61–62, 84; focused on subject community priorities, 96–97; labor labeled as “extracurricular,” 88–89; legitimacy and, 83–85, 90; reflexivity and, 57, 82–83; relevance, 105–108; speaking-with model of, 11, 55–56, 83, 85, 89; transnational feminist praxis and, 90–97, 110. See also alliance/ alliance work; coauthorship; collaboration
“Feminists Talking across Worlds,” 18
feminist: theory, 88, 119; theorists, 161–162; western-based, 12
field/ fields, abandoned, 17, 51, 82–83, 90; complicating multiple fields in relation to one another, 173; as means not ends, 19, 99, 103; noninterference among fields, 135
fieldwork. See feminist fieldwork
footloose researchers, 18, 90–91
“Four Truths of Storytelling and Coauthorship in Feminist Alliance Work,” 21–22
frontstaging of political conversations, 172–173
Geiger, Susan, 5, 17–18, 31, 36, 81; on academic reflexivity, 100; on the impasse, 94; transnational feminist praxis and, 90–91
Gender, Place and Culture, 92, 94–95
gender trainers, 135, 164, 188n8, 189n2–3
genre, 2, 16, 21, 22, 36, 48, 101
geography: ethno-, 17, 55–17, 106; of positionality, 57; right to theorize and engagement with, 161
Ghoonghats and Withdrawals, 10–11
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 169
Global Fund for Women, 141
Goans, 59–60, 67; class relations among, 69; dressing and, 65–66; language and identity, 71, 73, 74–76
Golas, 74
Gould, Deborah, 184n8
Gujaratis, 58, 71; Ithna Asheris and, 76–80; language and identity, 33, 72–74, 76
half-castes, 53
Hamara Safar, 129
Hart, Gillian, 161
Hasan, Nadia, 42
hauntings, 41, 43, 46–47, 50, 160–161
Hemmings, Clare, 161–162
Hindi, 92, 124, 126, 128, 137, 176; publications, 129, 134, 136, 164–165
Hindustani, 137
H-Net List for African History, 86
Hoffman, Dorothy, 44–45
hope/ hopes, 5, 6, 13, 38, 41, 49, 155, 175, 178
hunger, and movement building, 38–39, 155
“I” and the “we,” the, 5; negotiations between, 173
identity/identities: approach to action, 53; collective, 127–128; contextualization of, 53, 69–70; desire for unified, 76–80; fieldwork and social, 82; language and, 70–76; narratives and, 52–53; problematizing categories of, 54; reflexivity and, 82; relationships and, 53; theory of, 53
indeterminacy, politics of, 13, 184n10
indigenization debate, 71
Indira Awaas Yojana, 177
Insan Hakları Ortak Platformu, 44
insider/ outsider, 50
institutions, 22, 37, 41, 43, 53, 102, 137, 174; academic, 89, 95, 96, 106; critiques of, 135; dialogue with, 148; expertise and intellectual legitimacy, 138–140; global, 101; government, 91; histories of communal, 55; north and south, 86, 96, 187n1; religious, 76
interdisciplinarity, 33, 34. See also border crossings
internationalization, 18
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 119
interpretive communities, 16, 22, 98–99; and politics of interpretation and interference, 135
interracial alliances, 35
intersectionality, 175–178; intersectional critique, 175–182
intersubjectivity, 57
intimacy/ intimacies, 9, 10, 46, 49, 92, 116, 165; ruptured, 48–49
intimate lives, 95, 103–104, 130, 150–151, 159–160
Ithna Asheris, 58–59, 67, 72–73; desire for unified identitites and, 76–80; dressing and, 65; Jamaat, 33, 77–79; Khoja Shia, 33, 54, 78–79; language and identity, 73–74, 76; Zanzibari and mainland, 71–74
Jacka, Tamara, 86–87
Jaggar, Alison, 34
Jan Satta, 134
Jha, Prabhakara, 31
journey/ journeys, 14, 38, 42–43, 125–126; critique, coauthorship, and translations in, 101–104; possibilities and contradictions of collaboration in, 144–148; scholarship as, 51; specifying and translating politics of knowledge production in, 129–138. See also yatra
Kailasha of Khanpur village/Kailasha Amma, 37–40
KAMER, 45
Kanwar, Roop, 35
Katz, Cindi, 97
Kempadoo, Kamala, 34
Khalfan, Mohamed, 78–79
Khoja Shia Ithna Asheris, 33, 54, 78–79
Kiswahili, 26, 37, 64, 70–75, 79
knowledge: claims, 13, 174; class system of the intellect and, 160–161; collaborative border crossings and partial, 108–110; commuting/ communicating across fields, 100–101; embodied in dialogue, 140; legitimate, 103; local, 12; as movement, 21–22; politics of making, 14, 37, 129–140; power hierarchies in production of, 109–110; producing/ making, 13, 16, 35, 83–84, 88, 106, 129–138, 159; production, academic, 159; production and popularization of, 99; production, specifying and translating the politics of, 129–138; traveling meaningfully and responsibly, 15; ways of speaking and knowing, 129
Kobayashi, Audrey, 118
Koda, Bertha, 55
Konkanis, 71
Kothhi Sah ji, 24–26
Kültür ve Siyasette Feminist Yaklaşımlar (Feminist Approaches in Culture and Politics), 185n12
Kumar, Krishna, 134
Kutchi, 72–73
labor: of alliance work, 43, 44, 46; of collaboration, 42; process, 21, 163; and theater, 42; of writing, 44
La Martiniere School, 25–27
language: claiming and naming, 38, 70–71; of collaboration, 98–104; communicating across fields, 100–101; cult of professionalism and, 135; disjunctures between elite and vernacular, 98–99; identities and, 70–76; knowledge production and, 15, 18; and mother tongues, 17, 41; race, power, and, 71–76; and religious instruction, 76–79; and translation, 19
“Language of African Literature, The,” 98
legitimacy, 83–85, 90, 103; intellectual, 106, 138, 148
Letiner, Helga, 31
life-historical geographies, 57, 84
life stories, 66–80
lived experiences, 14
livelihoods, 7, 21, 35, 128, 157; access to, 46, 148, 183n6; attacks on, 135; disappearing, 176; sangtins’, 140, 142, 146–148
local communities and activism, 12, 18, 47, 90, 96–97, 101, 189n9
local/ global, 12; “Local and Global,” 24–26
local knowledge, 12
location: politics of, 12, 107; social, 102, 112
love, 5, 23, 26–35, 48, 50, 167, 175, 182
Macdonald, Amie A., 173
Mahal, Begum Hazrat, 24
Mahila Samakhya, 134, 164, Uttar Pradesh (MSUP), 102, 128. See also Sangtin Yatra
Mahila Samakhya Programme in Sitapur (MSS), 20, 116–118, 120, 126, 146, 151–155, 188n8
Mama, Amina, 12
Marcus, George, 81
margins, 7, 35, 86, 101, 132, 189n9; marginality, 45; and remarginalization, 13
Maya, 110, 115–117, 142, 150–155
Mbilinyi, Marjorie, 55
McKittrick, Katherine, 161
meanings: acquiring, 131, 135, 137–138, 140, 161, 164; of authorship, 6, 14; communities of, 173–175; of community, 80; of the “field” 10; of politics and activism, 4
memory, 11, 31, 48; -work, 162–173
Messer-Davidow, Ellen, 105, 109
methodology/ methodologies, 4, 12–13, 21, 93, 118; of accountability, 174; political, 39
methodology of the inverted periscope, 162–163
Mignolo, Walter, 11
Migrancy, Culture, and Identity, 70
movement: building, 171, 189n11; knowledge as, 21–22
muddying theories and genres, 2
Mujhe Jawab Do, 18, 36–37; Aalochana, Women’s Research and Documentation Centre, Pune review of, 93; Gender, Place and Culture review of, 92; juggling multiple feminist agendas, 91–92; responses to, 92–93; transnational feminist praxis and, 93–95; Vanangana review of, 93
multilocational coauthorship, 14, 128
multiparty politics, 33, 64, 69
murders of women, 150–155
Muslims, 111–115
mzungu, 33
Nagar, Richa, 146; at Avadh College, 27–28; community perception of, 57–61; conversations with feminists in Turkey, 44–45; critiques by MSUP of, 134–135; early short stories and poems by, 28–29; family of, 24–26, 28–31, 32; at La Martiniere, 26–27; move to Minneapolis, 30–31; Mujhe Jawab Do, 36–37; Playing with Fire, 9, 21, 37–38; representation and, 171–172; research in Dar es Salaam, 31, 33, 50–51; reviews of work by, 83–84; Sangtin Yatra and, 134–135, 138–139; as scribe for SKMS, 42–43; shift from geography to women’s studies, 34–36; at the University of Minnesota, 30–31; at the University of Poona, 29–30; visit to Cape Town, 48–49
Namisharanya, 47
Naresh, Purva, 158
narrative(s), 41; autobiographical, 15, 102, 117, 171; identities and, 52–53; identity, 26; oral, 51–52, 55; personal, 31, 55, 66, 84, 110; trust and, 69
National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), 134, 141
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 38–39
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), 154, 177
National Women’s Studies Association, 24
Nayi Tehri, 41–42
Neemsaar, 47
negotiation, politics of, 13–14
Ngaiza, Magdalene, 55
no-entry signals, 155–157
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 91, 93, 96, 100–103; collaborative work with, 111–114; NGOization of grassroots feminisms, 133, 185n13; religion and, 102, 131, 132; rural women’s critique of, 130–133; Sangtin Yatra and labor and politics of NGO work, 117–118, 125–134, 136–139, 146, 151. See also Mahila Samakhya, Uttar Pradesh (MSUP); Mahila Samakhya Programme in Sitapur (MSS)
northern academy, 17–18, 37, 92, 96, 98–101, 106, 120–121, 167–168
north-south borders, 15
Notes from Nowhere, 124, 144, 147
Nyerere, 33
Ok, Tata, Bye-Bye, 158–159
Okazawa-Rey, Margo, 4
“Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Communities,” 98
organizing, 7, 10, 41, 97, 140, 160, 162, 167–168
partnerships, 5, 21, 46, 100, 121, 133
patching: and quilting, 41; and translation, 26
pedagogy, 160,167; critical, 21, 132; Phule-Ambedkarite feminist, 169
Philippine Women Centre, 108
Phule-Amberkarite principle, 160
place, 149, 157, 161, 164, 171, 185–186n1
Playing with Fire, 9, 21, 37–38, 44–45, 138, 167, 171; theory as praxis and, 140–144; understanding of, 185n13. See also Sangtin Yatra
political: meanings of, 21, 38
politically engaged scholarship, 22, 169
political theater, 13, 169–173
politics: of alliance, 23; of fieldwork, 51, 64, 90; of indeterminacy, 13, 184n10; of knowledge making, 14, 102, 129–138; of location, 12, 107; multiparty, 33, 64, 69; of negotiation, 13–14; of race, 33; of recognition, 156; of representation, 108; of research, 6; spatial, 15; and struggle, 176; without guarantees, 13, 14
Porter, Philip, 31
positionality, 57, 80; border crossings and, 87; contradictions, 83–84; feminist research and, 83; languages of collaboration and, 98–104; life stories and, 66–80; reflexivity and, 82; transnational feminist praxis and, 90–91; transparent reflexivity and, 84
postcolonial, 15, 33, 50, 86, 100, 110; feminism and, 37; feminist ethnography, 106; feminist geographies, 19, 107, 118–123
postmodernism, 2
power: claims about, 94; dialogue and, 162; in fieldwork relationships, 85, 93; hierarchies embedded in knowledge production, 109–110; no-entry signals and, 155–157; power geometry, 159, 189n1; race, and language, 71–76
Pratt, Geraldine, 108, 163–164
praxis: collaborative, 20–21, 141; of knowledge production, 15–16; of love, 49; place-based, 18, 87; of radical vulnerability, 14; theory as, 140–144; -theory divide, 85, 96–7; through theater, 39; of translation, 16, 167; transnational feminist, 18–19, 93–97, 110; without guarantees, 11; and writing, 15
process-based (processual) approach: to knowledge production, 163
production of knowledge, 35, 83–84, 106, 129–138, 159
professionalism, cult of, 103, 135, 138; skepticism of, 173–175. See also cult of professionalism
Prolinnova (Promoting Local Innovation), 46–47
protest and silence, 149–157
publishing, 71, 99, 102, 125, 138, 141
Punjabi, 54
quilting: and patching, 41
race: border crossings and, 8–10; categories of, 54–56; discrimination based on, 8–9; otherness and, 9; politics, 33; power, and language, 71–76; and racism between Asians and Africans, 63–64
racially mixed people, 35
Radcliffe, Sarah, 108
radical vulnerability, 5, 6, 11–15, 17, 20–22, 23–24, 40–41, 45–47, 49, 63, 167, 174–176, 182; accountability and, 174; and praxis of love, 49. See also vulnerability
Rahemtullah, Omme-Salma, 42
Ramsheela, 102, 126, 129, 133, 147, 171
reading, 16, 41; alliances, 11
recognition, 40, 42, of injustice, 150, 156; politics of, 156, 169
reflective solidarity, 5, 87–88
reflexive identification, 82
reflexivity, 14–22, 36, 52, 80; academic, 100–101; border crossings and, 87; critical and collective, 9, 102–103; defined, 82, 186n3; imagining collaborative feminist postcolonial geographies, 118–123; and intersubjectivity in geography of positionality, 57; languages of collaboration and, 98–104; processual, 89; self-, 17–18, 37, 39, 84, 90; in subject-subject relationship, 70; transnational feminist praxis and, 90–91; transparent, 84–85, 108; truth and, 108
“Reflexivity, Positionality, and Identity in Feminist Fieldwork: Beyond the Impasse,” 36
“Reflexivity, Positionality, and Languages of Collaboration in Feminist Fieldwork,” 17–19
relationality, 5, 35, 51, 55, 80, 84; critical, 5
relationships, 15, 17, 20, 52, 58, 60; collaborative, 107, 115; in Dar es Salaam, 51; ethical, 82; family, 31, 111; identity and, 53; power in fieldwork, 85, 93; social, 66–70; social boundaries and, 55
relevance, 12, 35, 43, 80, 85, 93, 105–108
religion, 15, 33, 52, 73, 79, 84, 111; NGO activism and, 102, 131, 132; politicized, 120; problematizing categories of, 54; social boundaries and, 55, 56; stereotyping and, 61, 71
representation, 169–173; claims about, 94; crisis of, 82; injunction to represent, 110; messiness of, 159; question of, 20; self-representation and self-determination, 120; task of, 170
“Representation, Accountability, and Collaborative Border Crossings: Moving Beyond Positionality,” 18–19
researcher: as object of study, 16
research performances, 108–109
research praxis, 55–56. See also feminist research
responsibility, 1–6, 15, 19, 46, 87, 89, 95, 110, 152, 171, 173, 178, 183n1; and representation, 47, 115; and Sangtin Yatra, 126; and translation, 45
“Responsibility,” 1
Rich, Adrienne, 25–26
right to information, 7
right to theorize, 161
risks, 14, 23, 38, 42, 46, 139; of coauthorship, 163; economic and social, 103, 155; political, 89; of solidarities, 2
Sabea, Hanan, 11
Sánchez-Casal, Susan, 173
Sandoval, Chela, 5
Sangtin Kisaan Mazdoor Sangathan (SKMS), 7, 9–10, 15, 21, 27, 124, 175–176; Aag Lagi Hai, 176–182; climate change and, 46–47; collective struggles and, 38–39; focus of, 142–144, 189n9; membership, 183n6; representation by, 170–171; response to murders, 151–155; scribe of, 42–43; script on, 27; segregation between men and women in, 10–11
Sangtin, 189n9; women’s collective, 18
sangtins, 7; Collective, 110; producing a methodology to “speak with” the, 115–118
Sangtin Samooh, 18
Sangtin Writers, 6–7, 9, 44–45, 138; critique, coauthorship, and translations in journey with, 101–104
Sangtin Yatra, 7, 9, 10, 16, 20–21, 28, 45, 125, 189n9; Association of American Geographers meeting and, 163–164; backlash against, 129–130, 136, 141; border crossings through and beyond, 125–129; changing focus of, 142; collective struggles, 38; collective work and, 102–103; knowledge as dialogue and, 140–141; origins, 126; praise for, 133–134; representation and, 171; specifying and translating the politics of knowledge production, 129–138; struggle for survival, 138–140; support for, 134–136, 139; theory as praxis in, 140–144
Sarvesh, 155–156
sawarn: 9, 28, 48; -dalit dichotomy, 171
Scholarship: activist, 2–6; as journey, 51
segregation: caste, 8–9, 43; gender, 10–11, 97; racial, 71–6, 91
self-reflexivity, 17–18, 37, 39, 84, 90
sexual practices, 33, 62, 82, 100
Seychellois, 75
Shalala, Donna, 105
Shank, Sofia, 13
sharing as translation, 46
Shashibala, 102, 126, 129, 133, 171
Sheppard, Eric, 31
Shia, Shi’i, 24, 33, 54, 58, 76–79
Shohat, Ella, 86
silence/ silences: murders and, 150–155; and protest, 149–157; struggle against, 177
Singh, Rajendra, 166
Singh, Richa, 8–10, 20–21, 27–28, 39, 46, 102, 116, 117, 124, 126, 128–129, 133, 136, 138–141, 155, 190n5; Association of American Geographers meeting and, 163–164; backlash against Sangtin Yatra and, 129–130; on continuing the battle, 146; critical praise for, 134; decision to leave MS, 146–147; representation and, 171–172; on unequal locations and unified voice, 124–125
sisterhood, 21
Sitapur, 6, 7, 19, 27, 102, 164, 171, 184n1; activists of, 38–43, 47; border crossings into, 9; electricity in, 147; organizing in, 140, 152. See also Mahila Samakhya Programme in Sitapur (MSS)
situatedness: fieldwork and, 82; social relationships and, 66–70
situated solidarities, 5–6, 12, 17–18, 37, 66–80, 83, 85–89, 100, 107, 183n3; crossing borders with, 86–88
SKMS. See Sangtin Kisaan Mazdoor Sangathan (SKMS)
social boundaries, 55–56
solidarity, 1–3, 10–11, 15, 21, 28, 48, 166, 178; body and 40–43; feminism and, 12, 104; reflective, 5, 87–88; sangtins and, 126, 146–148, 157. See also situated solidarities
Somers, Margaret, 53
South Asian communities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 16–17, 31, 33, 50–80, 83
spaces: anti-definitional analytical, 5; of betweenness, 51; for collaboration, 91–92, 110; collaborative, 19; community and, 61, 66, 68; for critical dialogues, 88, 97, 132; entanglement, 41; of home and community, of public and private, 68; for producing knowledge, 35, 102, 110; social places as, 66, 185–186n1; sociopolitical, 9–10
spatial politics, 15
spatial situatedness, 52
speaking-with model of research, 83, 85, 115; difficulties of, 89
Spivak, Gaytri Chakravorty, 1, 119
staging truths, 14, 167; and political conversations, 172–173
storytelling, 11, 14, 21–22, 158–159. See also coauthorship; across borders, 47; class system of the intellect and, 160; complicating and interrupting, 16, 23, 47, 70, 160, 163; empowerment and, 165–166; political theater and, 169–173; praxis of radical vulnerability in, 14; subalternity and transexperience in, 13–14; truth and, 11
stranger fetishism, 5
strategy/ strategies, 21, 34, 114, 161, 172; around representation, 109; local, 12; textual, 88
subalternity, 13–14, 55, 107; collaboration and, 111–115, 120; revision of feminist theory and, 119
Sudbury, Julia, 4
Surbala, 8–10, 39, 43–44, 102, 124, 126, 141, 146–147, 155–156, 163–167, 188n6, 189n3; removal of bangles in the U.S., 163–164, 189n3; representation and, 170–172
sustainable epistemologies, 3
Swarr, Amanda, 24
Tambe, Shruti, 44
TANU Women, 36
Tanzania, 15, 31, 33, 35, 50, 67, 84, 91. See also Dar es Salaam; Asians in, 52–53, 64, 91, 100; immigrants to, 59, 61
testimonies: and cross border reading alliances, 11; feminist polyvocal, 11; and truth claims, 11
theater: community, 40–42; political, 13, 169–173; street, 91–92
theory: entanglement with story and strategy, 14, 21, 109, 172, 182; of gender, 189n2; meaningful theory, 94; and partnership with research subjects, 115; politics, and praxis, 96–97, 141; as praxis, 140; separation from methodology, 3. See also praxis
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa, 98
Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha, 167–168, 175
“Toad in the Garden, The,” 96
tongues, ix
transexperience, 13–14
“Translated Fragments, Fragmented Translations,” 15–17, 23–49
translation: critique, coauthorship, and, 101–104; engaged research and, 16; and politics of knowledge production, 129–138; and politics of language in Sangtin’s yatra, 137; sharing as, 46; and trust, 44–46
transnational feminist praxis, 18–19, 90–91, 93–97, 102, 107, 110
transparency, 13; reflexivity and, 84–85, 108
“Traveling and Crossing, Dreaming and Becoming: Journeys after Sangtin Yatra,” 20–21
Triggerman, The, 44
Trotz, D. Alissa, 118
trust, 3, 5, 12, 15, 17, 20, 25, 62, 69; building multifaceted relationships through, 167–168; in coauthoring stories, 169; radical vulnerability and, 53; reciprocities and, 173; Sangtin Yatra and, 130, 148; translation and, 44–46; transparency and, 13; and trustworthiness, 61, 174
truth/ truths: claims, 11, 13, 21–22, 148, 163, 167, 175; about coauthoring stories in feminist cross border alliance work, 166–175; of doing, 167; impure and forgotten, 48–49; of lives and relationships, 10; political economy of making, 48; in representation, 169–173; of Sangtin Yatra, 130; transparent reflexivity and, 108; truth telling as tale telling, 11
unified identitities, desire for, 76–80
United States, the, 9, 15, 20, 30–31, 33, 43, 50, 63, 113, 115; academy, 36, 50, 91, 108; emigration to, 78, 113–114; feminist academics in, 96; imagined and symbolic connections with, 58, 59–60, 68; Indian communities in, 93; NGOs and, 136
University of Dar es Salaam, 64
University of Minnesota, 30–31, 141; Press, 103, 138
University of Poona, 29–30
untouchability, 28, 41, 43, 117, 131–132, 142, 185n10, 185n13
Upadhyay, Nishant, 42
Urdu, 76–77
Uttar Pradesh, 10, 20, 24, 29, 37, 58–59, 91, 95, 97, 101, 110, 116–117, 126, 136, 142, 183n6
Uzun, Begüm, 42
Vaishya, Shashi, 102, 126, 129, 133, 171
Vanangana, 91–92, 94–95, 96; response to Mujhe Jawab Do, 93
vernacular, 100–101; vernacularized knowledges, 13
violence: domestic, 37, 91, 110–112, 150–155, 176; epistemic, 3, 5, 45, 160–163; social, 48
Visweswaran, Kamala, 4, 57, 106
vulnerability, 3; accountability and, 174; radical, 5, 6, 11–15, 17, 20–24, 40–41, 45–47, 49, 63, 167, 174–176, 182. See also radical vulnerability
“We”: collective, 2, 167; and “I,” 5; negotiations with “I,” 173
western research, and nonwestern/ third world subjects, 12, 34, 82–84, 86–87, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 99, 108
Wettasinha, Chesha, 46
Wollenburg, Lini, 46
women’s studies, 34–36, 89, 126, 134, 141
World Trade Organization, 97, 119, 131
writing, 18, 20–21, 24–26, 41, 44, 78, 85, 90, 94, 99, 129, 132, 172; and coauthorship, 167; collaborative/ collective, 101–103, 126, 128, 157, 172; nonconventional academic, 159; power and knowledge production, 139, 165–166
yatra, 129, 135, 137–138, 146, 148. See also journey/ journeys
Zanzibar/ Zanzibari, 70–74, 76, 78–79
Zapatismo, 162–163
zubaans, ix
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