Enacting a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation

Our collective project on Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Americas explores how feminist discourses & practices travel across a variety of sites & directionalities to become interpretive paradigms to read/write issues of class, gender, race,...

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Published in:	Estudos feministas Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 743 - 753
Main Author:	Alvarez, Sonia E
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Portuguese Spanish
Published:	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 01-09-2009
Subjects:	Borders Class Politics Decolonization Discourse Epistemology Feminism Feminismos latinoamericanos Feminismos transnacionais Hispanics Latin America Latinas Migration Politics Racial discrimination Racism Raça/racismo Sexuality Social Movements Sociolinguistics Tradução Translation Women
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Summary:	Our collective project on Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Americas explores how feminist discourses & practices travel across a variety of sites & directionalities to become interpretive paradigms to read/write issues of class, gender, race, sexuality, migration, health, social movements, citizenship, politics, & the circulation of identities & texts. Translation is politically & theoretically indispensable to forging feminist, anti-racist, postcolonial/postoccidentalist political alliances & epistemologies because the Latin/a Americas -- as a transborder cultural formation rather than a territorially delimited one - must be understood as translocal in a dual sense. The first sense we will deploy - that of translocation builds on but moves beyond US Third World feminist conceptions of the "politics of location." Rather than "immigrating" & "assimilating," moreover, many people in the Latin/a Americas increasingly move back & forth between localities, between historically situated & culturally specific, though increasingly porous, places, across multiple borders, & not just between nations (as implied in the term "transnational migration," for instance). We therefore deploy the notion of translocal in a second sense, which we call translocalities/translocalidades, precisely to capture these multidirectional crossings & movements. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:	0104-026X 1806-9584