Women in Academia Crossing NorthSouth Borders

Gender, Race, and Displacement

Contributions by Zuleika Arashiro, Malba Barahona, Eugenia Demuro, Rosalba Icaza, Sara C. Motta, Marisol Reyes, Jeanne Simon Edited by Zuleika Arashiro, Malba Barahona

Publication date:

09 December 2015

Length of book:

184 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

237x162mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498517690

Drawing broadly on decolonial studies, postcolonial feminist scholarship, and studies on identity, this interdisciplinary edited volume brings together personal accounts written by female scholars who migrated from Latin America and joined universities in the Global North (Australia, the United States, and the Netherlands), and female scholars who moved from the Global North to teach in Latin American universities. The seven contributors examine how their lived experiences with gender, race, and place/displacement have impactedtheir social identities and on their roles as researchers and teachers. They describe how personal and intellectual negotiations in their new location have influenced their fight for plural forms of knowing and being. This book expands the debate on geopolitics of knowledge and the position of female scholars from the Global South beyond the United States as a site of experiences.

Introduction: Thinking through Our Voices; Zuleika Arashiro, Eugenia Demuro, and Malba Barahona
Chapter 1. Testimony of a Pilgrimage: (Un)Learning and Re-Learning with the South, Rosalba Icaza
Chapter 2. The Significance of Being a Mexican Academic Woman in Rural Minnesota, Marisol Reyes
Chapter 3. My Decolonizing Path: An Experience of “Belonging and Becoming”, Malba Barahona
Chapter 4. Life as a White Academic in the Global South: Colonial Privilege and Standpoint, Jeanne Simon
Chapter 5. Becoming Woman: On Exile and Belonging to the Borderlands, Sara Motta
Chapter 6. Delinking from the Zero Degree: Reflections from the Antipodes, Eugenia Demuro
Chapter 7. Silence and Voice in the Other South, Zuleika Arashiro

Exceptional historic times demand knowledge and knowers that go beyond the trivial and push the canon toward visibility of marginality as well as show the way to epistemic resistance and justice. Women in Academia Crossing North-South Borders embodies this push.... One of the main advantages of Women in Academia is that it is a product of vibrant, collective solidarity.... Legitimizing marginal women's voices, articulating shifting knowledge patterns and identities, and showing the epistemological alternative of protest are important contributions of Women in Academia. They make the book very contemporary and needed in view of current US and global contexts of erasure and oppression of epistemological difference and diverse identities. Deeply emotional and inspirational, the book also stands out as a rebellious manifesto against authoritarian regimes, and is a must read for anyone who is interested in epistemic and social justice.