The Witch Studies Reader

Stories about witches are by their nature stories about the most basic and profound of human experiences-healing sex violence tragedies aging death and encountering the mystery and magic of the unknown. It is no surprise then that witches loom large in our cultural imaginations. In academia studies of witches rarely emerge from scholars who are themselves witches and/or embedded in communities of witchcraft practitioners. <i>The Witch Studies Reader</i> brings together a diverse group of scholars practitioners and scholar-practitioners who examine witchcraft from a critical decolonial feminist perspective that decenters Europe and departs from exoticizing and pathologizing writing on witchcraft in the global South. The authors show how witches are keepers of suppressed knowledges builders of new futures exemplars of praxis and theorists in their own right. Throughout they account for the vastly different national political-economic and cultural contexts in which the witch is currently being claimed and repudiated. Offering a pathbreaking transnational feminist examination of witches and witchcraft that upends white supremacist colonial patriarchal knowledge regimes this volume brings into being the interdisciplinary field of feminist witch studies.<br><br>Contributors. Maria Amir Ruth Asiimwe Bernadette Barton Ethel Brooks Shelina Brown Ruth Charnock Soma Chaudhuri Carolyn Chernoff Saira Chhibber Simon Clay Krystal Cleary Adrianna L. Ernstberger Tina Escaja Laurie Essig Marcelitte Failla D Ferrett Marion Goldman Jaime Hartless Margaretha Haughwout Patricia Humura Apoorvaa Joshi Govind Kelkar Oliver Kellhammer Ayça Kurto?lu Helen Macdonald Isabel Machado Brandy Renee McCann Dev Nathan Mary Jo Neitz Amy Nichols-Belo Allison (or AP) Pierce Emma Quilty Anna Rogel Karen Schaller Jacquelyn Marie Shannon Shashank Shekhar Sinha Gabriella V. Smith Nathan Snaza Shannon Hughes Spence Eric Steinhart Morena Tartari Nicole Trigg Katie Von Wald Tushabe wa Tushabe Jane Ward<br>