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 Mohantys scholarly activism is a gift to all of us fighting for justice and freedom in times of escalating violence. That Mohantys 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 universitys 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. Aķda Hernįndez Castillo
