Walk in India and South Africa
Notes towards a decolonial and transnational feminist politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14960932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Swati Arora (0000-0002-8553-4620, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-33 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1013-7548 • E-ISSN: 2163-7660 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10137548.2020.1742781 |
| OpenAlex | W3013889348 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The essay discusses Maya Rao's Walk and The Mothertongue Project's Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the city. Working with Chandra Talpade Mohanty's formulation of feminist solidarity (2013) and Boaventura de Sousa Santos's translation-as-dialogue (2014), I discuss the radical forms of feminist methodological imaginations attempted and nurtured by them. This essay examines the political and aesthetic potential of translatability of performance in the world of global asymmetries and the implications it holds for intersectional feminist conversations in the global South
Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feminism · Maya · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
Grassroots Postmodernism
Epistemologies of the South
Spaces of Colonialism
Desire Lines
Shifting Meanings of Postconflict Sexual Violence in South Africa
Walking Women
Walking the Walled City. Gender and the Dérive as Urban Ethnography
Manifesto
City forms and writing the 'now' in South Africa
The Delhi Gang Rape
Writing the World from an African Metropolis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |