Epistemic Agitations and Pedagogies for Justice: A Conversation around Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability

Abstract:This forum began as an "Author Meets Critics" at the 2019 NWSA Conference in San Francisco, where seven feminist scholar-activists from diverse locations, disciplines, and trajectories came together to discuss their unique co-journeys while exploring the daring theoretical interventions in Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability (HT). HT is an insightful and inspiring text authored by Richa Nagar through journeys with saathis or companions who form the Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan in Uttar Pradesh and Parakh Theatre in Mumbai, and with students at the University of Minnesota. Here, we share this vibrant conversation as an invitation to our readers to immerse themselves in the collective journeys and performances that strive for ethical re/telling, radical vulnerability, situated solidarity, intellectual humility, and epistemic justice at the shifting intersections of intimate and global politics.