Towards transnational feminist queer methodologies

This article introduces the possibilities of transnational feminist queer research as seeking to conceptualise the transnational as a methodology composed of a series of flows that can augment feminist and queer research. Transnational feminist queer methodologies can contest long-standing configurations of power between researcher and researched, subject and object, academics and activists across places, typically those which are embedded in the hierarchies of the Global North/Global South. Beginning with charting our roots in, and routes through, the diverse arenas of transnational, feminist, participatory and queer methodologies, the article uses a transcribed and edited conversation between members of the Liveable Lives research team in Kolkata and Brighton, to start an exploration of transnational feminist queer methodologies. Understanding the difficult, yet constructive moments of collaborative work and dialogue, we argue for engagements with the multiplicities of ‘many-many' lives that recognise local specificities, and the complexities of lives within transnational research, avoiding creating a currency of comparison between places. We seek to work toward methodologies that take seriously the politics of place, namely by creating research that answers the same question in different places, using methods that are created in context and may not be ‘comparable'. Using a dialogue across the boundaries of activism/academia, as well as across geographical locations, the article contends that there are potentials, as well as challenges, in thinking ourselves through transnational research praxis. This seeks complexities and spatial nuances within as well as between places

The Aesthetics and Politics of Feminist Struggles and Liberal Internationalism

The Fury Archives considers human rights internationalism as an opening rather than a horizon of claims for early twentieth-century radical movements. Jill Richards’s emphasis on the affective power of struggles rather than their outcomes reveals both the limitations of human rights and also the resonance of the human for resistance to fascism, patriarchy, racism and imperialism. While our contemporary moment confirms human rights as a failed project, it also reveals the recuperation of this internationalism as an instrument for humanitarianism as governance that reinscribes European and Western racial and imperial hegemony even as the human seems itself inadequate for planetary politics.&nbsp

Por uma prática feminista transnacional contra a guerra

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X200100020000

Por uma prática feminista transnacional contra a guerra

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X200100020000