Revisiting the Nomadic Subject

Women's Experiences of Travelling Under Conditions of Forced Displacement

Maria Tamboukou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2021
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4262-2 (ISBN)

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This book follows the stories of forcefully displaced women and raises the question of whether we can still use the figuration of the nomadic subject in feminist theories and politics. This question is examined in the light of the ongoing global crises of mobility and severe border practices. In recounting their stories migrant and refugee women appear in the world as ‘who they are’ — unique and unrepeatable human beings —and not as ‘what they are’ —objectified ‘refugees’, ‘victims’ or ‘stateless subjects’.

Women’s stories leave traces of their will to rewrite their exclusion from oppressive regimes, defend their choice of civil and patriarchal disobedience, grasp their passage, claim their right to have rights and affirm their determination for new beginnings. What emerges from the encounter between theoretical abstractions and women’s lived experiences is the need to decolonize feminist theories and make cartographies of mobility assemblages, wherein nomadism is a component of entangled relations and not a category or a figuration of a subject position.

These stories that have now been collected, transcribed and analysed; they have created a rich archive of uprooted women’s experiences and have brought forward a wide range of new ideas that will be presented and discussed in the book:

Decolonizing feminist theory
Mobility assemblages and geographies of nomadism
The art of listening to fragmented narratives and the labour of translation
Crossing borders and inhabiting borderlands
Radical solitude and radical hope
Feminist genealogies of labour under conditions of forced displacement
The force of political narratives through the figure of Antigone?
Education for hope
Imagining the non-nomad

4 narrated stories will also be presented in full interwoven in the theoretical discussions of the book, thus opening up a dialogic space between theoretical reflections and diffractions, and narratives of lived experiences.

Maria Tamboukou is professor of feminist studies at the University of East London and has held visiting research positions in a number of institutions. Her research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics and archival research. She is the author and editor of 12 books and numerous journal articles. See the author’s website for more details on research projects and publications: www.tamboukou.org

Introduction: The making of a book in dialogue with the real

Chapter 1: Mobility assemblages and geographies of nomadism

Chapter 2: Who are you? The art of listening

Chapter 3: Crossing borders and inhabiting borderlands

Interlude I: Nadia’s story

Chapter 4: Feminist genealogies of labour under conditions of forced displacement

Interlude II: Somi’s story

Chapter 5: Thinking with Antigone: political narratives of humanistic agonism

Interlude III: Hanna’s story

Chapter 6: Education for hope

Chapter 7: Imagining the non-nomad

Conclusion: Decolonizing feminist theories

Erscheinungsdatum	28.01.2020
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 228 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-4262-7 / 1538142627
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-4262-2 / 9781538142622
Zustand	Neuware