Transnational Contact Zones

<p>This book explores gender sexualities labour migration and coloniality in Africa and India in an attempt towards transnational understanding and ways of rethinking gender. It scrutinises the nuances textures taxonomies and architectures of gender and sexuality in the mediated encounters between the two regions.</p><p>Amidst the current climate of great global fragmentation and geopolitical conflict this volume brings new readings from Africa and India to surface points of contact and departure. As a counter to ruptures and alienation that often characterise geopolitical borders this book advances new epistemologies from both the internal and external borders of the modern (and colonial) world-system. In fresh and incisive essays the volume offers ideas to build solidarity and collaboration through the lens of ‘contact zones’ that open up prospects for transcultural dialogues across continents contexts regions nations identities and disciplines. The volume contributes to transnational understanding highlights complex diversity and resists the idea of a single unified set of experiences of gender and sexuality in non-Western contexts. Rather than representing mainstream trends it advances the idea of interracial solidarity that is linked to the revolutionary momentum of confronting imperialism as a consciousness that reifies oppressive domains of thinking.</p><p>The book will be of interest to scholars of gender and sexuality anthropology cultural theory sociology human geography development studies cultural and media studies film studies linguistics curriculum studies political science land and migration studies. It will also be of interest to activists working in these domains.</p>