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Abstract: This presentation examines the connections between critical transnational feminist theory and praxis in institutional academic settings, drawing on Chandra Talpade Mohanty and M. Jacqui Alexander’s arguments in “Cartographies of Knowledge and Power” (2010). Their framework reveals how and why many forms of liberal feminism often reinforce or reproduce colonial, racial, and capitalist hierarchies. Highlighting Mohanty and Alexander’s analysis of knowledge and power, both of which shape and are shaped by access and positionality, in this presentation I explore strategies for integrating transnational feminist praxis into our institutional lives.

Speaker: Rumya S. Putcha is an associate professor in the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies and in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. Her research interests center on colonial and anti-colonial thought, particularly around constructs of knowledge, the body, and the state. Her first book, The Dancer’s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke University Press, 2023), develops a transnational feminist method for studying Indian performance cultures.

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