Kum-Kum Bhavnani

Biographic Data

ID227448
NAMEKum-Kum Bhavnani
GIVEN NAMESKum-Kum
FAMILY NAMEBhavnani
SIGNATUREBHAVNANI K
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS155
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX4

  • Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research

    Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum Bhavnani et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Qualitative…2020

    This chapter reflects on critical strategies in qualitative research. It examines the meanings and debates associated with the term critical, in particular, contrasting liberal and dialectical notions and practices in relation to social analysis and qualitative research. The chapter also explores how critical social research may be synonymous with critical ethnography in relation to issues of power, positionality, representation, and the producti…

  • Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity

    Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum BhavnaniARTICLEMeridians2020Cited by: 2References: 2

    Research Article| September 01 2000 Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity?: Comments on Mississippi Masala Kum-Kum Bhavnani Kum-Kum Bhavnani kum-kum bhavnani is professor of sociology and women's studies and chair of the Women, Culture, Development Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Talking Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1991), and co-editor of Shifting Identities, Shifting Racisms (L…

  • Climate Futures: Re-Imagining Global Climate Justice

    Priya A ca Jh Kurian, Kum-Kum Bhavnani et al.BOOKClimate Futures2019

    Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos. Seeking better explanations of the underlying causes and consequences of climate change, and mapping strategies toward a better future, o…

  • Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

    Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran et al.BOOKFeminist Futures2016

    Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South. Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, applying it to issues ranging from sexuality and the g…

  • On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions

    Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran et al.BOOKOn the Edges of Development2009

    Introduction: From the Edges of Development Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian and Debashish Munshi Part 1: Refusing Representations of Development 1. October 17, 1961 Moustafa Bayoumi 2. Ode to Quasheba: Resistance Rituals Among Higgler Women in Jamaica Hume N. Johnson 3. Plural Economies and the Conditions for Refusal: Gendered Developments in Bangkok Ara Wilson 4. Dancing on the Edge: Women, Culture, and a Passion for Change Kum-Kum Bh…

  • Shifting Passions, Changing Genres

    Open AccessKum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum BhavnaniARTICLEFeminism & Psychology2008References: 7

  • Feminist futures: From dystopia to eutopia

    Open AccessKum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEFutures2008Cited by: 4References: 15

  • Transforming Socialist-Feminism: The Challenge of Racism

    Open AccessKum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEFeminist Review2005

  • Otras inapropiables: Feminismos desde las fronteras

    Open AccessBell Hooks, Avtar Brah et al.BOOKOtras inapropiables2004

    Inapropiadas/inapropiables, desubicadas en los mapas disponbles de la identidad y la política, sin poder adoptar ni la máscara del "yo" ni la del "otro" de las narrativas occidentales modernas. Fronterizas, intrusas, extranjeras, de conciencia antagonista y diferencial reclaman el privilegio sin garantías de partir de posiciones sociales múltiples y contradictorias en cuya tensión y conflicto se producen unos conocimientos y prácticas políticas r…

  • A Question of Politics

    Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum BhavnaniARTICLEInternational Feminist Journal of…2002

  • Feminism and "race"

    Kum-Kum BhavnaniBOOKFeminism and "race"2001

    This volume represents the strength as well as diversity of writings which discuss race and feminism showing how these two areas, usually considered to be distinct and therefore discrete from each other, have developed

  • Feminism and ‘Race’

    Kum-Kum BhavnaniBOOKFeminism and "race"2000

    The past two decades have seen the incursion of feminist thought into many academic areas. Within the academy, feminist approaches have gained some legitimacy and yet, simultaneous with these disciplinary advances, there have been charges of racism directed at feminist scholarship and practice. These charges have resulted in feminist work continuously reshaping itself. This volume represents the strength as well as diversity of writings which dis…

  • Women, culture, development: A New Paradigm for Development Studies

    Peter Chua, Kum-Kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2000Cited by: 28References: 14

    We argue that existing approaches to development, including the women in development [WID] and gender and development [GAD] perspectives, fall short in their treatment of culture, and that a new paradigm, which we term 'Women, Culture and Development' [WCD], represents a way forward. Linking the fields of feminist studies, cultural studies and critical development studies, a WCD framework highlights culture as lived experiences and structures of …

  • Women’s Studies and its Interconnection with ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Sexuality

    Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum BhavnaniCHAPTERIntroducing Women’s Studies1997

    In 1990 Meg Coulson and I published an article on Women's Studies which was called 'Making a Difference — Questioning Women's Studies' (Coulson and Bhavnani, 1990). In that article we suggested that while Women's Studies was beginning to deal with issues of difference — both in its rhetoric as well as in its courses — many (mainly white, but not exclusively so) teachers and students of Women's Studies had not yet incorporated the rhetoric or cour…

  • Fighting for her Future: Reflections on Human Rights 1 and Women's Prisons in the Netherlands

    Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLESocial Identities1997

    Part of a larger study of race and gender politics in women's prisons within a transnational, comparative context, this paper is based on a series of interviews conducted with imprisoned women in the Netherlands. We argue that in relation to the US system, the relatively progressive character of the Dutch prison system emanates from its consistent deployment of human rights principles in structuring conditions of custody. We further suggest that …

  • Identities and Racisms: Differences and Commonalities

    Open AccessKum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEFeminism & Psychology1995References: 4

  • Shifting the Subject: A Conversation between Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Donna Haraway, 12 April 1993, Santa Cruz, California

    Open AccessKum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEFeminism & Psychology1994Cited by: 9References: 3

  • Shifting Identities Shifting Racisms

    Open AccessKum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEFeminism & Psychology1994Cited by: 48References: 14

  • Postgraduate Work in Progress

    Open AccessJennie Williams, Kum-Kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEFeminism & Psychology1993

  • Tracing the contours

    Open AccessKum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum BhavnaniARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1993Cited by: 58References: 7

  • Towards a Multicultural Europe: Race', Nation and Identity in 1992 and beyond

    Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum BhavnaniARTICLEFeminist Review1993Cited by: 3

  • Towards a Multicultural Europe: Race’, Nation and Identity in 1992 and Beyond

    Open AccessKum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum BhavnaniARTICLEFeminist Review1993Cited by: 1References: 15

  • Postgraduate Work in Progress

    Open AccessJennie Williams, Kum-Kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEFeminism & Psychology1992

  • Complexity, Activism, Optimism: An Interview with Angela Y. Davis

    Open AccessKum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEFeminist Review1989Cited by: 2

  • Transforming Socialist-Feminism: The Challenge of Racism

    Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Kum‐kum Bhavnani et al.ARTICLEFeminist Review1986