Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"Using a refreshing multi-genre and translanguaging approach involving visual art, poetry, dialogues and text, Roxana Chiappa and Iris Viveros provide 14 women and gender non-confirming scholars with the relational space in this edited collection to foreground the immense knowledge and wisdom First Nations and Southern academics bring to universities. Their stories of courage, resilience and resistance will inspire readers and create opportunities for solidarity across cultural differences."

Catherine Manathunga, Co-Director of the UniSC Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre, Professor of Education Research at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

"Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South: Treasuring all the Knowledges is a beautiful, moving, and informative book. It is full of compelling stories about how transnational scholars from the Global South navigate Western academies. Using enticing poems, short vignettes, dialogues, stories, art and essays, the contributors show us vividly how and why both dreams and disappointments shaped their future. There are many lovely features of the book, including sensibilities about intercultural and ethnic interactions across a range of different landscapes: advisor/advisee relationships, classroom interactions, first encounters, the imposter syndrome, plus the significance of Indigenous knowledges-based on ways of knowing, being and doing.

The book, edited by Roxana Chiappa and Iris Viveros Avendano, is both humane and inspirational. Grounded in scholarship and written in clear language and meaningful modes of storytelling, the experiences of professional women from Africa, Asia and Latin America unfold before our eyes. The volume explores what it is like to grapple with class, gender, privilege, and hierarchy while offering practical, sensible ways for women to expand their knowledge and information-based skills - Indigenous and otherwise.

Part of the book's captivating power is its ability to weave the anguish of the contributors in a balanced, but impactful manner. Scholars and practitioners from the Global South and elsewhere should be enriched by the serious-minded and self-reflective tapestry of stories in this must-read book."

Dr. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas, Indiana University, Author of Empathy in the Global World: An Intercultural Perspective and coauthor of Intercultural Communication between Chinese and Americans