RITM Interdisciplinary Research Methods Workshop: Richa Nagar

Join us for the second in our research workshop series, with esteemed guest speaker. Richa Nagar. Professor Nagar’s contributions to transnational feminisms have focused on the theory and practice of alliance work across geographical scales and institutional and cultural sites. Her writings on this subject began with an interrogation of the dominant approaches to reflexivity and positionality in feminist workand on complicating the ways in which academia creates hierarchical oppositions between process-product, academic-activist, and individual-collaborative. 

Readings will be pre-circulated. Participants are invited to bring and share about their own research projects.

BIO

Richa Nagar is the inaugural Gloria Steinem ’56 Endowed Chair in Women and Gender Studies at Smith College. Her internationally acclaimed antidisciplinary and multi-genre scholarship and pedagogical work has evolved across the borders of India, Tanzania, and the U.S. and centers on critical development studies, feminist epistemologies, and alliance work across North/South borders. Her multilingual interventions in transnational feminism and the praxis and poetics of collaboration and co-authorship agitate stabilized ways of knowing and telling through collective creativity to build enduring alliances with people’s struggles for justice. Richa refuses the borders of academia-arts-activism, while also re/telling, claiming, and theorizing the emotional, political, and analytical labors of such blurring and offering such critical concepts as situated solidarities, radical vulnerability, and hungry translations.