Transnational Feminist Pedagogies

Transnational Feminist Pedagogies: Meanings, Methods, and Experiences explores how transnational feminist pedagogies are practiced, challenged, and reimagined in contemporary classrooms. This interdisciplinary volume brings together a rich collection of contributions that examine the evolving terrain of higher education through the lens of transnational and decolonial feminist theories. The book addresses pressing issues including the corporatization of higher education, censorship, and the negotiation of identity within institutional frameworks. Contributors from across the globe offer strategies for teaching under political and institutional duress, while centering collaboration, social movements, and marginalized voices. Through case studies, curricula, and reflections on learning and unlearning, the book provides concrete pedagogical tools that respond to the challenges of teaching in a time of heightened surveillance, precarity, and resistance. Ideal for students and educators in women's and gender studies, sociology, education, and related fields, Transnational Feminist Pedagogies: Meanings, Methods, and Experiences will resonate with those committed to critical pedagogy, intersectional analysis, and transnational collaboration in both theory and practice.

Debjani Chakravarty is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah, USA, and co-editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Samantha L. Vandermeade is Assistant Professor of American Cultural Studies at the University of Wyoming, USA. Suchismita Banerjee is Assistant Professor of English at Indian River State College (IRSC) in Florida, USA.

Introduction 1. Embattled Times, Essential Perspectives: The Necessity and Challenge of Teaching Transnational Feminisms 2. Anti-oppressive Pedagogies and Persistent Inequalities: Transnational Feminist Reflections 3. Classroom as a Site of Resistance: Teaching Immigration Amidst Political Gag Orders 4. Thinking Transnationally Away from Home: A Kitchen Table Conversation Between Two Transnational Queer Feminists on Another Shore 5. When 'Transnational Feminism' Is Not Enough: Notes from a Feminist Classroom in India 6. Decolonizing Study Abroad Programs Through Transnational Feminist Pedagogies 7. Beyond Borders and Classrooms: Conceptualizing Transnational Feminist Pedagogical Praxis 8. Pedagogies of Hope, Resilience, and Resistance: Teaching Indigenous and Transnational Feminisms in a Predominantly White Classroom 9. Autoethnography, Authenticity, and Teaching to Transgress: Resisting Colonial Paradigms in Higher Ed 10. Anger, Vulnerability, and Momentum: On the Limitations of Transnational Queer Pedagogies at a Public Midwestern University 11. Weaving Relationships, Dancing Solidarities: Pedagogies of Transnational Feminist Choreography 12. Pages Unfolding: Transnational Feminist Pedagogies through Zines 13. A Critical Transnational Feminist Lens for Teaching About New Media Epilogue