This issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, “Transnational Feminisms: Contexts, Topics, Forms,” co-edited by Attiya Ahmad and Catherine Z. Sameh, emerges out of a 2014 conference held at Barnard College. The conference featured academics, artists, and activists who came together to mark the twentieth anniversary of Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan’s book, Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Linking this gathering to the current moment, Ahmad and Sameh write in their introduction that this issue captures the “dynamism and major themes [of this conference], and reanimat[es] the provocations of Scattered Hegemonies within some of the key forms, contexts, and topics of transnational feminisms at the conference and in the years that have followed. In this issue we attempt to locate the importance of this genealogy of feminist thought and elaborate some of what it has enabled. The works featured here are demonstrative of the rippling effects of transnational feminist frameworks on scholarship across time.”
Featuring rich visual material, essays, and videos from the 2014 conference, this issue offers readers an engagement with transnational feminist scholarship across space and time. As Ahmad and Sameh write, the material in this issue is “wide-ranging, overlapping, distinctive, and powerful…[T]he different contributions of this Scholar and Feminist Online issue demonstrate the ongoing importance of transnational feminist scholarship.”
