Storytelling and co-authorship in feminist alliance work: reflections from a journey
Storytelling and co-authorship in feminist alliance work: reflections from a journey
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女权主义联盟工作中的讲故事和共同作者：旅程的反思
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2013
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R. Nagar
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如果所有的写作从根本上都与意义和文本的产生联系在一起，那么模糊学术界和行动主义边界的女性主义研究必然是关于为特定目的动员经验的劳动和政治。共同创作故事是一个主要工具，女权主义者在跨国联盟中工作，调动经验，反对产生社会暴力的权力关系，并想象和制定自己的社会变革愿景和道德。这类工作需要认真对待身份、代表性和政治想象力的复杂性，并重新思考与参与和专业知识相关的假设和可能性。本文借鉴了与印度活动家和美国学术合作者16年的合作伙伴关系，以反映跨社会，地理和制度边界的故事讲述如何加强对暴力问题的批判性参与和社会变革的斗争，同时也困扰着学院内外的主流话语和方法论。通过提供关于通过联盟工作共同创作故事的五个“真相”，它反映了与共同创作相关的劳动过程，假设，可能性和风险，作为动员智力空间的工具，来自联盟中多个位置的故事可以相互交谈，并演变成更微妙的关键干预。
If all writing is fundamentally tied to the production of meanings and texts, then feminist research that blurs the borders of academia and activism is necessarily about the labor and politics of mobilizing experience for particular ends. Co-authoring stories is a chief tool by which feminists working in alliances across borders mobilize experience to write against relations of power that produce social violence, and to imagine and enact their own visions and ethics of social change. Such work demands a serious engagement with the complexities of identity, representation, and political imagination as well as a rethinking of the assumptions and possibilities associated with engagement and expertise. This article draws upon 16 years of partnership with activists in India and with academic co-authors in the USA to reflect on how storytelling across social, geographical, and institutional borders can enhance critical engagement with questions of violence and struggles for social change, while also troubling dominant discourses and methodologies inside and outside of the academy. In offering five ‘truths’ about co-authoring stories through alliance work, it reflects on the labor process, assumptions, possibilities, and risks associated with co-authorship as a tool for mobilizing intellectual spaces in which stories from multiple locations in an alliance can speak with one another and evolve into more nuanced critical interventions.