![]() ![]() As she mentions, “I think and write in conversation with scholars, teachers, and activists involved in social justice struggles” (p. Those two, scholarship and practice, co-exist and are shaped by the interaction between each other. A feminist solidarity cannot emerge without decolonising knowledge and “practice anticapitalist critique” (p.7). For Mohanty, there is no such thing as an apolitical scholarship, and her academic work is not seen as distinct from her political engagement. ![]() The three topics/sections are inseparable in understanding her argumentation on reorienting feminism. The third section ‘revisits’ her earlier writing ‘Under Western Eyes’: This revision suggests a reorientation of “transnational feminist practices towards anticapitalist struggles, by examining feminist pedagogies and scholarship on globalization and by exploring the implication of absence of racialized gender and feminist politics in anti-globalization movements” (p.13). The second part delves into the politics of knowledge, with a specific focus on academia in the US. The first part criticizes the Western-centric nature of feminism and identifies the need for more nuanced analyses. Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s book Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing and Solidarity is divided into three parts and discusses the primary subjects that have previously occupied Mohanty’s writings and interests: decolonizing feminism, demystifying capitalism, and reorienting feminism. ![]()
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