Journal Article — Nepantlera-Activism in the Transnational Moment: In Dialogue with Gloria Anzaldúa’s Theorizing of Nepantla — by Kavitha Koshy

$15.00

Through this article I wish to stress the criticality of transnational encounters. I use the word “criticality” to underscore the pivotal role transnational experiences play in a globalized world, for they can frame and challenge international politics.

PDF4 for simple products

You can read the above publication free-access online, by clicking the PDF icon on the bottom of this page. Alternatively, you can purchase this publication in print and/or downloadable PDF formats as offered below.

Description

Abstract

Through this article I wish to stress the criticality of transnational encounters. I use the word “criticality” to underscore the pivotal role transnational experiences play in a globalized world, for they can frame and challenge international politics. When in transnational encounters the (mis)interpretations and (mis)understandings of “others” are not addressed, positive social transformation is pretty much negated. Most often, such limited encounters perpetuate the negative or positive stereotypes projected by the dominant western, Eurocentric ideology and thus help to maintain systems of power and privilege, i.e., an unjust status quo. In a search for solutions in what I see as a critical moment in transnational theorizing, I engage with the work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, who offers a different approach to activism that can be effectively applied to transnational spaces.

Recommended Citation

Koshy, Kavitha. 2006. “Nepantlera-Activism in the Transnational Moment: In Dialogue with Gloria Anzaldúa’s Theorizing of Nepantla.” Pp. 147-162 in Re-Membering Anzaldúa: Human Rights, Borderlands, and the Poetics of Applied Social Theory: Engaging with Gloria Anzaldua in Self and Global Transformations (Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Volume IV, Special Issue, 2006.) Belmont, MA: Okcir Press (an imprint of Ahead Publishing House).

The various editions of Re-Membering Anzaldúa: Human Rights, Borderlands, and the Poetics of Applied Social Theory: Engaging with Gloria Anzaldua in Self and Global Transformations can be ordered from the Okcir Store and are also available for ordering from all major online bookstores worldwide (such as Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and others).


Read the Above Publication Online

You can read the above publication free-access online, by clicking the PDF icon below.



NEW IN OKCIR'S MONOGRAPH SERIES
Front and Back COVER: Khayyam’s Tent: A Secretive Autobiography: 1000 Bittersweet Robaiyat Sips from His Tavern of Happiness - OMAR KHAYYAM - Logically Re-Sewn and Translated in Verse by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
Front and Back Cover - Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. - Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination: Book 12: Khayyami Legacy: The Collected Works of Omar Khayyam (AD 1021-1123) Culminating in His Secretive 1000 Robaiyat Autobiography. With Forewords by Winston E. Langley and Jafar Aghayani Chavoshi
Omar Khayyam's Secret Series Books 1-12 Cover, Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. Omar Khayyam’s Secret: Hermeneutics of the Robaiyat in Quantum Sociological Imagination