Person Richa Nagar & Amanda Lock Swarr
Simpson Center EventWorkshop on Collaborative Research and Praxis
Date and Time  Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 - 3:30 PM
Location  Communications 206
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Richa Nagar (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota) and Amanda Lock Swarr (Women Studies, University of Washington) are co-editors of Reconceptualizing Collaboration: Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis (forthcoming, SUNY Press) and co-authors of "Organizing from the margins: grappling with "empowerment" in India and South Africa," A Companion to Feminist Geography (Blackwell, 2005) and "Dismantling Assumptions: Interrogating 'Lesbian' Struggles for Identity and Survival in India and South Africa," SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Winter 2004). Nagar and Swarr work with grassroots activists on the politics of development and transnational social movements.

Recommended Advance Reading: Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India. Sangtin Writers (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and a selection from Reconceptualizing Collaboration, to be distributed.

Space limited and registration required.

Sponsored by the South Asia Center, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (UW Bothell), the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Women Studies, and Geography.
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