Interculturality and Gender interrogates the politics of interculturality and translation to explore how key concepts of representation, responsibility, and complexity might be practically applied within feminist pedagogy. Interlinking pedagogical theories with collaborative teaching at the universities of Trento, Athens and Goldsmiths (London), the essays refuse to separate scholarship from politics, and theorizing from teaching. The experience of working jointly in transdisciplinary workshops and seminars aimed at gendered interculturality in the classroom is theorised to highlight issues of race, sexuality, religion, and migration and to question how to bring diverse feminist commitments into the lived present and the imagined future. Interculturality and Gender challenges traditional representations of Europe that forget its colonial past, as well as contemporary European assimilationism and protectionism The volume invokes the practice of education as a powerful tool for redefining who belongs to Europe and to whom Europe belongs. Shared knowledges are examined as important to the fostering of societies that are more just and less conflictual. Each essay presents its own definition of gendered interculturality, an exemplary teaching unit, and pedagogical theory. The essays, in conversation with each other, invite the reader’s participation, extending the challenge of adopting and adapting the processes offered.

Contributors: Joan Anim-Addo, Giovanna Covi, Mina Karavanta, Liana Borghi, Lisa Marchi, Erika Merz, Luz Gómez-García, Renata Morresi, Paola Zaccaria, Marina Calloni, Tendai Marima and Natasha Bonnelame are all members of the research group ReSisters on Interculturality/Travelling Concepts/Athena3.


Editors:
Joan Anim-Addo, writer and scholar, is the Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Giovanna Covi is a tenured researcher at the University of Trento, focusing on US and Caribbean Literatures and Gender Studies.
Mina Karavanta is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English Studies at the University of Athens; she focuses her research on critical theory and comparative literature.