Hungry translations : relearning the world through radical vulnerability /

Hungry translations : relearning the world through radical vulnerability /

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Author / Creator:	Nagar, Richa, author.
Imprint:	Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	xii, 299 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Transformations: womanist, feminist, and indigenous studies Transformations (University of Illinois (System). Press)
Subject:	Saṅgatina (Organization) Saṅgatina (Organization) Women political activists -- India -- Sītāpur (District) Women's rights -- India -- Sītāpur (District) Marginality, Social -- India -- Sītāpur (District) Rural women -- India -- Sītāpur (District) -- Social conditions. Rural women -- India -- Sītāpur (District) -- Economic conditions. Poor women -- India -- Sītāpur (District) -- Social conditions. Feminism -- India. Women's studies. Feminist theory. Feminism. Feminist theory. Marginality, Social. Poor women -- Social conditions. Rural women -- Economic conditions. Rural women -- Social conditions. Women political activists. Women's rights. Women's studies. India. India -- Sītāpur (District)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11962522

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ISBN:	9780252084409 0252084403
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index.
Summary:	About the struggles of thousands Dalit women, laborers and peasants of Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh under Sangatina; includes not only the words and reflections of many saathis of Sangtin, but also the everyday stories of their struggles, poems by Richa Nagar and a play.

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Summary:	Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars and teachers working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life?Informed by over twenty years of experiences in India and the United States, Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theatre artists, writers, and students, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. She argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle.
Physical Description:	xii, 299 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index.
ISBN:	9780252084409 0252084403