ABOUT THIS BOOK

A generation of scholar-teacher-activists have moved beyond collaborating in theory to embodying, engaging in, and sharing how they practice their pedagogy. Isis Nusair and Barbara L. Shaw edit essays that link feminist, queer, anti-racist, decolonial, and disability theory and practice while using intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to explore how the personal remains political.

The contributors describe ways of building communities within and beyond academic programs and examine what it means to engage in community-building work and action across institutional boundaries. In Part One, the essayists focus on the centrality of community building and reinterpreting bodies of knowledge with students, staff, faculty, and community members. Part Two looks at bringing transnational approaches to feminist collaborations in ways that challenge the classroom’s central place in knowledge production. Part Three explores organic collaborations in and beyond the classroom.

A practical and much-needed resource, Pedagogies of Interconnectedness offers cutting-edge ideas for collaboration in pedagogy, education justice, community-based activities, and liberatory worldmaking.

Contributors: Jordyn Alderman, Leen Al-Fatafta, Meryl Altman, María Claudia André, Andrea N. Baldwin, Carolyn Beer, Luisa Bieri, Rebecca Dawson, Misty De Berry, Danielle M. DeMuth, Emily Fairchild, Sara Youngblood Gregory, Letizia Guglielmo, Jeremy Hall, K. Melchor Hall, Linh U. Hua, Christine Keating, Charlotte Meehan, Brayden Milam, Isis Nusair, Montserrat Pérez-Toribio, Andrea Putala, Ariella Rotramel, Ann Russo, Kimberly Sanchez, Barbara L. Shaw, M. Gabriela Torres, Ayana K. Weekley, and Sharon R. Wesoky

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Isis Nusair is a professor of women’s and gender studies and international studies at Denison University. She is a coeditor of Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel and translator of Ever Since I Did Not Die. Barbara L. Shaw is an associate professor and chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Allegheny College. She is a coeditor of Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader and Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, and coauthor of the forthcoming book, Act Now!

REVIEWS

“How can we hope, dream, and act for justice through education in a time of unthinkable violence on our communities, students, classrooms, and our world? Pedagogies of Interconnectedness embraces this crucial question with a courageous creativity that is defined by passion, intimacy, brilliance, and humility. The editors and contributors explore possibilities of deep co-learning and co-evolving with colleagues, friends, and undergraduate students by grappling with the tensions between resistance and collaboration and the epistemic and pedagogical practices that can move through critique toward radical transformation for truth, healing, and liberation. This rich intervention is an invaluable and inspiring resource for feminist teachers everywhere.”--Richa Nagar, author of Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword AnaLouise Keating

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Feminist Collaborations as Radical Interconnectedness Isis Nusair and Barbara L. Shaw

Part I: Community Building and Queering Bodies of Knowledge

Turning Towards: Teaching as Collaboration Misty De Berry and Ann Russo
Critical Transnational Black Feminist Queer Praxis: Engendering Collaborative Pedagogy through Care and Community Building Andrea N. Baldwin
Radical Feminist Transgressions in Teaching/Learning Linh U. Hua and K. Melchor Hall
Beyond Critique: Building a Feministqueerpublichealth Classroom Barbara L. Shaw and Rebecca Dawson
Challenging Hierarchy: Feminist Praxis and Sustainable Community Collaboration Ariella Rotramel and Kimberly Sanchez

Part II: Intersecting the Transnational

Teaching and Learning Intersectional and Transnational Feminisms through Digital Humanities María Claudia André
Engaged Global Pedagogy: Moving from Study Abroad to Transnational Scholar-Activism Luisa Bieri
Teaching Feminist China: The Dream and the Real Meryl Altman and Sharon R. Wesoky
Unpack Here: Challenging Privilege, Increasing Empathy, and Building Solidarity through Collaborative Feminist Pedagogy Danielle M. DeMuth and Ayana K. Weekley
Transcultural and Transborder Pedagogies in the Feminist Classroom Montserrat Pérez-Toribio, M. Gabriela Torres, and Charlotte Meehan

Part III: Organic Collaborations, Collective Feminist Transformations

Widening the Circle: Collaborative Learning Within, Between, and Beyond Classrooms Christine Keating
“The Most Real Experience I’ve Had in a Course”: Disrupting Silences and Cultivating Intimacy Emily Fairchild, Leen Al-Fatafta, Sara Youngblood Gregory, and Carolyn Beer
Facilitating Feminist Collaborations in Undergraduate Education: Models for Research and Internships in Gender and Women’s Studies Letizia Guglielmo, Jordan Alderman, Jeremy Hall, Brayden Milam, and Andrea Putala
Weaving the Maps: Tales of Survival and Resistance Isis Nusair

Contributors

Index