Insurgent Visions

“For the last several decades, Chandra Talpade Mohanty has been an indispensable voice in radical feminist scholarship. In her brilliant new collection Insurgent Visions, as throughout her work, she urges multipronged analyses rooted in a deep understanding of the unmitigable nature of capitalist exploitation. Mohanty demonstrates how our scholarship and activism, if they adequately respond to the pressing demands of our historical moment, should help forge grounded feminist solidarities with Palestine, Kashmir, and beyond. The transnational insurgencies she advocates demand a future free of racism, transphobia, and the fascism that threatens us all.” - Angela Y. Davis

“Insurgent Visions as a living record of Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s scholarly activism is a gift to all of us fighting for justice and freedom in times of escalating violence. That Mohanty’s wisdom derives from a deep and sustained engagement with community is everywhere evident in this powerful collection. Mohanty teaches us that we can only create different kinds of subjects, relationships, and worlds by insurgency, rising in revolt against imperialism, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy. Mohanty both calls for an insurgent feminism and gives us many inspired glimpses of that feminism at work. A vital and visionary contribution.” - Sara Ahmed

“Insurgent Visions is an invitation to imagine new horizons of freedom and dignity, but also an invocation to refusal. Chandra Talpade Mohanty urges us to refuse the normalization of patriarchal violence in settler colonialism, neoliberal dispossession, and racialized genocide. Taking us from the university’s spaces to the US-Mexico border and the occupied territories of Palestine and Kashmir, Mohanty documents in an inspiring manner the struggles and hopes of marginalized communities.” - R. Aída Hernández Castillo

"Consisting of individual and co-authored essays, as well as one interview, the latest exceptional work by Chandra Talpade Mohanty focuses on an insurgent feminism that incorporates anticapitalist, antiracist, anti-imperialist, and militant resistances to the status quo. Sharing over two decades of wisdom and experience, Mohanty looks back to move into imaginative and liberatory futures." - Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine

"For readers across disciplines, Insurgent Visions ultimately offers both a trenchant analysis of our present and an invitation to dream insurgent futures into being." - Shailee Rajak, South Asian Review