In Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar embarks on an eloquent and moving exploration of the promises and pitfalls she has encountered during her two decades of transnational feminist work.

With stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, Nagar grapples with the complexity of working through solidarities, responsibility, and ethics while involved in politically engaged scholarship. Experiences that range from the streets of Dar es Salaam to farms and development offices in North India inform discussion of the labor and politics of coauthorship, translation, and genre blending in research and writing that cross multiple—and often difficult—borders. The author links the implicit assumptions, issues, and questions involved with scholarship and political action, and explores the epistemological risks and possibilities of creative research that bring these into intimate dialogue

Daringly self-conscious, Muddying the Waters reveals a politically engaged researcher and writer working to become ""radically vulnerable,"" and the ways in which such radical vulnerability can allow a re-imagining of collaboration that opens up new avenues to collective dreaming and laboring across sociopolitical, geographical, linguistic, and institutional borders.

| Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introducing Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism 1. Translated Fragments, Fragmented Translations 2. Dar es Salaam: Making Peace with an Abandoned "Field" 3. Reflexivity, Positionality, and Languages of Collaboration in Feminist Fieldwork 4. Representation, Accountability, and Collaborative Border Crossings: Moving Beyond Positionality 5. Traveling and Crossing, Dreaming and Becoming: Journeys after Sangtin Yatra 6. Four Truths of Storytelling and Coauthorship in Feminist Alliance Work Notes Glossary References Index | Honorable Mention, Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), 2015. — National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)
|Richa Nagar is Professor of the College in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is co-author of Playing With Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India.