scholarly journals Yaariyan, Baithak, Gupshup: Queer Feminist Formations and the Global South

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (Spring) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Naveen Minai ◽  
Sara Shroff
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Transnational Space

In this essay, we join Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s (1999) and Eve Tuck’s (2009) call to decolonize and de-center “damage-centered” research, embedded in settler/colonial ways of knowing. We attend to the ethical responsibility and intimate relationalities that this contemporary moment requires of us as privileged feminist, queer, global south, and South Asian scholars. We introduce yaariyan, baithak, and gupshup to theorize queer feminist care in/as research practices. As ethics of care, compassion, and collectivity, these practices enable us to study and share knowledges together. Building on transnational feminist and queer scholarship (Chowdhury and Philipose 2016; Banerjea et al. 2017), we argue that responsible knowledges mean thinking about methods as relational rather than transactional and relationality as activated and not automatic. We explore how gupshup and baithak provide methodologies of co-production of knowledge, inclusion, accountability, sharing, and reflection. This work must be located in different frameworks of home, diaspora, and language. Pakistan, we contend, is always already a transnational space in which gender and sexuality have been categorized (to deadly consequences) but not contained as words which denote experiences, identities, practices, desires, and histories. It is these words that we reach for in and through our friendship as a condition of possibility of a different kind of knowledge-making.

Geographies of transport III

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Schwanen
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Global South ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Heuristic Classification

This third report in the series reviews recent research on the geographies of transport in Africa, Asia and Latin America to reflect on the spatialities of knowledge production and the question as to whether a post/decolonial turn is occurring in geographical scholarship on transport. A simple and heuristic classification scheme is developed and deployed to demonstrate that predominantly western worldviews, theories, concepts, methods and research practices continue to prevail in geographical scholarship on transport in the Global South. It is also shown that this hegemony is being reworked and resisted in various ways, and the report concludes with suggestions about how geographical scholarship on transport can be worlded and ultimately decolonized further.

Language, gender and sexuality in 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaspal Naveel Singh
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North

The Global South is a postcolonial imagined community that bears the potential to imagine powerful south-south solidarity between the struggles for decoloniality of diverse populations across the world. To prepare our field’s pan-global future, this year-in-review overrepresents literature on gender, sexuality and language from/on the Global South. This decolonial move aims to notice and promote southern tactics of resistance, southern epistemologies and southern theories and evaluate what can be learnt if we look southward on our way forward. Some literature from the Global North will be considered too. The review is structured using three overlapping foci: (1) embodied and linguistic resistance, (2) mediatisation and scale and (3) fragile masculinities. I conclude by suggesting that our research should stay locally situated and globally radical.

Negotiating Space and Making Place: Punjabi-Sikh Cabbies in New York City

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052095423
Author(s):  
Diditi Mitra
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Immigrant Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Transnational Space

I examine how immigrant Punjabi-Sikhs make sense of themselves as yellow cabbies in New York with two complementary frameworks—Hill Collins’ “matrix of domination” and insights from the literature exploring the interplay between race and ethnicity. The cabbies discussed their immigrant status, non-whiteness, and social class as influential, emphasizing the effects of all three forms of marginalization as occurring simultaneously. They deployed “money” to frame this subordination and to negotiate dimensions of social location and identity. The transnational space they occupied emerges noteworthy too in their identity making. This analysis, based on interviews with 56 cabbies, advances scholarship on race and immigration/transnationalism, Asian and South Asian American identities, specifically research on immigrant Sikhs of lower socioeconomic status, attention on whom is scant.

Troubling the Southern turn in feminisms

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-393
Author(s):  
Manisha Desai
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
The South ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
The North ◽  
Gender Transformation ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

In this article, I focus on the work of the South Asian Network for Gender Transformation (SANGAT) to show how it goes beyond the current turn to the Global South in much contemporary transnational feminisms. It does so in two ways. One, as evident in the name, it defines a regional imaginary, which is place-based and informed by the long history of interactions in the area beyond the colonial, postcolonial, and recent global forces, as well as in conversation with discourses and practices from the North. Second, its praxis connects activists across borders in a process of mutual learning that acknowledges power inequalities and draws upon local as well as transnational feminist theories and methodologies to enable sustainable collaborations for social and gender justice in the region. Thus, rather than reproducing the North/South binaries with its attendant erasures SANGAT seeks to go beyond them to develop place-based yet connected ‘solidarities of epistemologies’ and praxis.

Feminist Epistemology: An Interpretation and a Defense

Hypatia ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Epistemology ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Cognitive Differences ◽  
Production Of Knowledge

Feminist epistemology has often been understood as the study of feminine “ways of knowing.” But feminist epistemology is better understood as the branch of naturalized, social epistemology that studies the various influences of norms and conceptions of gender and gendered interests and experiences on the production of knowledge. This understanding avoids dubious claims about feminine cognitive differences and enables feminist research in various disciplines to pose deep internal critiques of mainstream research.

Constructing the digital self in the Global South

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baird Campbell ◽  
Nell Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Global South ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Self Formation

Abstract The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the self” in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the longstanding attention paid to gender and sexuality in linguistic studies of identification (see Bucholtz & Hall 2004). In placing this concept within digital worlds, we pay attention to the ways in which daily life is now lived and experienced online. Authors in this issue think critically about practices of self-formation and the performance of gender and sexuality that differ from those that have normalized in the Global North, considering both revolutionary possibility, and re-entrenchment of constraint.

scholarly journals Celestial Magic as the ‘Love Path’: The Spiritual Cosmology of Ibn ‘Arabi

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 145-166
Author(s):  
Christine Broadbent
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Ibn Arabi ◽  
Sociological Discourse ◽  
Point Of Reference

Nature’s secrets can be approached in a variety of ways and this paper explores celestial magic as the ‘path of love’ via the Sufi teachings of Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi (1165–1240 CE). Given the honorary title of ‘the greatest master’, al-Shaykh al-Akbar, he occupies a special place in the Sufi tradition, because his writings are by far the most extensive contribution to Islamic mystical philosophy. His terminology and works have become a main point of reference for most Sufi orders, partly due to the historical circumstances explored below. His teachings continue to be widely studied, and a range of contemporary Sufi schools, like Beshara in Scotland and Karnak in Northern Australia, have introduced westerners to the study, work, invocation and meditation of the Sufi path as passed down by Ibn ‘Arabi.1 This paper explores his use of astrological symbolism to illustrate Sufi cosmology, as for example, his ‘orientations to spirit’, which are a different way of viewing the ‘quadruplicities’. In Mystical Astrology According to Ibn ‘Arabi, translator and author Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984) calls attention to what Ibn ‘Arabi calls the ‘contemplative penetration of cosmic atmosphere’. Mystical correspondences, including ‘eternal prototypes’ and designated prophets, are linked to planets, like the symbolic chain he draws between the moon and Adam’s prophetic role as the ‘mirror’ of divinity.2 This may beg the question of an overlap between the mystical and the magical, yet any such engagement depends on cultural norms and social context for its nomenclature. Celestial ‘magic’, explored as an imaginative engagement with the cosmos for the production of knowledge, allows the Sufi ‘love path’, to be considered. Further, Tasawwuf, the mystical path of Sufism, is suggestive for the sociological discourse on the ‘magical subject’ and for the question that frames this paper: namely, what are the implications for our ways of knowing?

scholarly journals Refugees from South Asian Islamic States at the footsteps of Global North: Reading Moshin Hamid’s Exit West as an Anticipation of Postnational Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minakshi Paul ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Global South ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Right

One of the essential aspects which have been perpetually constituting and reconstituting the tumultuous geopolitical space of South Asia is its interface with the Global North. An inherent element of this interface materializes in terms of the rapidly escalating proportion of the displaced population from the Islamic South Asian and Central Asian countries afflicted with intense political tensions seeking shelter in the Global North regenerating the ground for the imperialist exclusionary politics in a newer manifestation. Considering the tensional position of the Islamic communities in global politics, British-Pakistani writer Moshin Hamid’s novel Exit West (2017) provides a platform for exploring the plight of the refugees from Islamic states of South Asia in the fortress regime of Global North who are denied being assimilated either in their home state in Global South or in the host countries of the Global North thus problematizing their political status. Corroborating Giorgio Agamben’s dismissal of national borders, Hamid deploys the trope of magical doors in his novel that instantaneously delivers the protagonists to different nations rendering the geopolitical borders meaningless. As the concerned conference aspires to obviate the thick smog of western critical theories which fail to address the local issues and local cultural experience, the present paper in this context examines the novel as an aesthetic and poetical account of the hostility and resentment of the indigenous population and assimilated citizenry towards the refugees, the primal loss of their psychic experience of ‘home’ challenging the ‘ethnonationalism’ and the right-wing populism of the western nations invoking the readers to acknowledge the truth of ‘Postnationalism’. This paper thus attempts to diagnose the methods of negotiating the tensional correspondence between Global North and Global South on account of these refugees with contested political and social identities imploring the readers to reexamine the gaps in the complacent, coherent identity of South Asia as a geopolitical unit.

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