R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre
{"title":"Staging Stories","authors":"R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvpj7gwx.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvpj7gwx.7","url":null,"abstract":"Through four 'learning moments' with SKMS, Nagar outlines the book's inspirations, sites, and contours. She discusses how those who are pushed to social margins create politics and knowledge by refusing imposed frameworks. Learning from such refusals requires hungry translations that are open and flowing and that are embedded in embodied solidarities that require radical vulnerability. Such translations strive to converse across incommensurable landscapes of struggles in order to co-agitate against universalized languages that erase the vocabularies and visions of those reduced to hungry bodies. In reconceptualizing politics as a shared labor on an uneven terrain that makes perfect retelling impossible, hungry translation becomes continuous collective labor of troubling inherited meanings of the social and of making our knowledges more alive to the creativity of socio-political struggle.","PeriodicalId":165164,"journal":{"name":"Hungry Translations","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129772450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hungry TranslationsPub Date : 2019-08-15DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252042577.003.0003
R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre
{"title":"Movement as Theater","authors":"R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252042577.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042577.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Part Two revolves around protests and campaigns that have formed Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan's battles with the Indian state, its development apparatus, and the intimate and violent hierarchies of caste, class, religion, and gender within and against which SKMS saathis live and fight every day. It describes SKMS's struggles to bring water to a dry irrigation channel and to win unemployment compensation under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). Significantly, these stories are simultaneously about articulating a vision of solidarity through the continuous work of evolving complex relationships and political analyses among SKMS saathis, including a Savarna writer, such as the author herself, who is not a kisan or mazdoor and who earns her living as a university professor in the USA.","PeriodicalId":165164,"journal":{"name":"Hungry Translations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129308331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hungry TranslationsPub Date : 2019-08-15DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252042577.003.0005
R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre
{"title":"Stories, Bodies, Movements","authors":"R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252042577.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042577.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Can the ways of knowing and being co-developed with SKMS and Parakh be reworked pedagogically in a public research university? This exploration births a combined undergraduate and graduate course, 'Stories, Bodies, Movements,' which unfolds in the form of fifteen weekly 'Acts' and uses storytelling, writing, and theatre as modes of collective relearning. In absorbing the writing of W.E.B. Du Bois, June Jordan, Nina Simone, Sujatha Gidla, Om Prakash Valmiki, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and others, the Syllabus asks: What of ourselves must each member of the class offer in order to become an ethical receiver of the stories we are reading? And how might this commitment to ethically receive stories translate into an embodied journey that seeks to transform the self in relation to the collective?","PeriodicalId":165164,"journal":{"name":"Hungry Translations","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132781430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hungry TranslationsPub Date : 2019-08-15DOI: 10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042577.003.0006
R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre
{"title":"Closing Notes","authors":"R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042577.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252042577.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The Closing Notes are co-authored by Richa Nagar with Siddharth Iyengar and Sara Musaifer, two of the 27 participants who immersed themselves in the first two semesters of the teaching of 'Stories, Bodies, Movements' at the University of Minnesota. Iyengar is a doctoral candidate in Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and Sara Musaifer is pursuing her Ph.D. in Comparative International Development Education. This co-authorship of the closing notes embodies the anti-disciplinary and anti-hierarchical vision and ongoing nature of the project of hungry translations. Through reflections on their own unlearning and relearning processes during the making of two plays in class, 'Re/telling Disappearing Tales' (Spring 2017) and 'Fractured Threads' (Fall 2017), the three authors collectively re-enact, in a radically vulnerable mode, the key arguments of the book.","PeriodicalId":165164,"journal":{"name":"Hungry Translations","volume":"310 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124410747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hungry TranslationsPub Date : 2019-08-15DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252042577.003.0004
R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre
{"title":"Living in Character","authors":"R. Nagar, Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, Parakh Theatre","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252042577.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042577.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Through storytelling, play, and journals, Nagar examines the learning processes that unfolded during the six month long process of making Hansa, Karo Puratan Baat, a play based on a collective reinterpretation of Munshi Premchand's short story, 'Kafan.' The twenty people who came together to create Hansa are migrants from seven states of India who now work in Mumbai as domestic workers or as aspiring or underemployed film actors (\"strugglers\"). In the process of wrestling with sociopolitical, geographical, and linguistic hierarchies, these actors articulate a situated solidarity with the worldviews of those who are dismissed as rural, Dalit, uneducated, and poor. They reimagine the aesthetics and ethics of artistry through an embodied immersion in the politics of casteism, communalism, patriarchy, uneven development, and poverty in India.","PeriodicalId":165164,"journal":{"name":"Hungry Translations","volume":"97 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128002260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Journey Continues","authors":"E. Skinner, T. Kindermann, Andrew J. Mashburn","doi":"10.4324/9780429446122-28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429446122-28","url":null,"abstract":"Day 1: November 13, 2019 Time Details 8:00 Networking and Check-In 9:00 Welcome 9:10 General Session 10:15 --------Virtual Office Break-------10:30 Conversations with Perkins Regional Coordinators – Round 1 (Secondary Indicators) Room 1: Northwestern and Mid-Northern regions Room 2: Northeastern and Southwestern regions Room 3: Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions 11:30 Lunch (participants will be on their own for lunch) 12:45 Conversations with Perkins Regional Coordinators – Round 2 (Post-Secondary Indicators) Room 1: Northwestern and Mid-Northern regions Room 2: Northeastern and Southwestern regions Room 3: Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions 1:45 --------Virtual Office Break-------2:00 State-led Breakout Sessions Room 1: Plan Development Room 2: Data Gap Analysis Room 3: Local Needs Assessments 3:00 --------Virtual Office Break-------3:15 Help Me, Help You 4:15 Adjourn","PeriodicalId":165164,"journal":{"name":"Hungry Translations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131299229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}