The
Centre for Indian Studies Invites
you to a talk
By
Richa Nagar
Professor of
Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of
Minnesota
Five
Truths of Storytelling, Co-authorship and Alliance work.
If
all writing is fundamentally tied to the production of meanings and
texts through representation and translation, then research that
blurs the borders of academia, activism, and creative work is
necessarily about the labor and politics of mobilizing experience for
particular ends. Co-authoring stories is a chief tool by which those
who work in alliances across borders mobilize experience to write
against relations of power that produce social violence, and to
imagine and enact their 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. In offering five “truths” about co-authoring
stories through alliance work, this presentation 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 and effective critical
interventions.
Date:
September 17, 2013
Time:
16.00-17.30
Venue:
Committee Room, CISA, 36 Jorissen Street.
For
further information contact Prof. Dilip Menon, Mellon Chair in Indian
Studies, dilip.menon@wits.ac.za;
011-717-4020
