The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic has made us acutely aware of human vulnerability and the multiple crises we face today.In response, this edited volume brings together feminist and queer scholars from diverse regions of the world to examine pressing crisis issues.Drawing on cases from North America (the United States and Mexico), South America (Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Colombia), Europe and Asia (Ireland, Türkiye, India, and Indonesia), and the Anglophone Caribbean, the volume offers a truly transnational perspective on three dimensions of crisis: ecological devastation and economic exploitation, political authoritarianism and violence, and the denial of reproductive justice and bodily autonomy.The book is clearly structured into an introduction, three thematic parts (I-III), and a conclusion, with Parts I to III responding, respectively, to the three crises.The Introduction explains the notion of crisis, discusses transnational feminism as the volume's foundation, and provides an overview of the twelve chapters.Part I focuses on ecological devastation and economic exploitation.Whitney A. Bauman engages religion, nature, and queer theory to argue that queering discourses of both religion and nature destabilizes essential understandings of the human, opening up fluid identities in a post-human world.Wendy Harcourt's "Stories of Care" draws on feminist political ecology (FPE) to analyze narratives of care emerging from activist responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.Ecological issues are another key focus of this part, as seen in Elisabeth Prügl and Wening Udasmoro's examination of women's resistance to land grabbing in Indonesia, identifying four framings rooted in generational reproduction, livelihoods, environmental reproduction, and community peace.Finally, the scope shifts to Latin America, where Lucía Cavallero analyzes feminist resistance against financial violence in Argentina, proposing "financial violence" (p.58) as a concept to synthesize the violence produced by debt in the lives of lesbians and trans people-a highlight of this part, as it not only provides the notion of "financial violence" but also attends to the trans and lesbian communities.Part II focuses on political authoritarianism and violence.Lara Selis and others examine the current conservative surge in Brazil, particularly the Evangelical groups, considering them as a movement gathered around the advocacy of traditional family values, anti-gender campaigns, and religious nationalism.Canan Balkır examines gender policy and democratic backsliding in Türkiye with the decline of EU influence.In Latin America, Juliana Restrepo Sanín examines how activists have raised awareness of "violence against women in politics" (VAWIP)
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