Colliding words and worlds: pluriversal conversations on transnational feminisms

This chapter accounts for the book’s theoretical and methodological framework and main ambitions. Its foundation in pluriversal conversations on transnational, intersectional, and decolonial feminisms is foregrounded and related to the overall aim: to reflect upon and analytically practice transgressions of the methodological nationalist approaches that are ingrained in much contemporary humanities and social science research. The concept of pluriversality is presented as an alternative to the universalisms of Western modernity, and transnational, intersectional, and decolonial feminisms are introduced as frameworks which can help critical scholars to push their research beyond conventional disciplinary reliance on methodologically nationalist traditions. The volume’s commitment to postdisciplinarity and emergent, explorative methodologies, including experiments with a blurring of boundaries between academic and creative writing genres, is emphasized. It is argued that such approaches are needed to transgress the limitations of methodologically nationalist outlooks. This chapter’s reflections on transgressive methodological frameworks are presented as a pluriversal conversation between members of the editorial team. Finally, this chapter tells the story of the volume’s coming into being through encounters between scholars of different academic ages, affiliated with universities located along Global South/North/East/West axes, who met to establish multiple situated reflections on border transgressing research methodologies.