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Abu-Lughod, Lila. “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others.” American Anthropologist 104, 3 (2002): 783-790.

Adomako Ampofo, Akosua and Signe Arnfred, Eds. "African Feminist Politics of Knowledge: Tensions, Challenges and Possibilities." Uppsala: Nordic Africa, 2009.

Adomako Ampofo, Akosua. “Whose ‘Unmet Need’? Dis/Agreement about Childbearing among Ghanaian Couples.” Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa, Ed. Signe Arnfred. Uppsala, Nordic Africa Institute (2004): 115 – 134.

Alexander, M. Jacqui and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, "Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis." Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, Ed. Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. 23-45.

Amireh, Amal. "Palestinian Women's Disappearing Act: The Suicide Bomber Through Western Feminist Eyes." Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence & Belonging, Ed. Rabab Abdulhadi et. al. New York: syracuse University Press, 2011. 29-45.

Appadurai, Arjun. "The right to research." Globalisation, Societies and Education 4,2 (2006): 167-177.

The College of Arts and Sciences. Syracuse University. Democratizing Knowledge Project: Developing Literacies, Building Communities. 2011.

Grewal, Inderpal and Caren Kaplan. "Transnational Feminist Pedagogy". Journal of American Studies of Turkey  38 (2013): 13-17

Hacking, Ian. "Making up people." The science studies reader 18 (1999): 590.

Lugones, María. "The coloniality of gender." Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise2.2 (2008): 1-17.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "'Under Western eyes' revisited: feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles." Signs 28.2 (2003): 499-535.

Nnaemeka, Obioma. "Nego‐feminism: Theorizing, practicing, and pruning Africa’s way." Signs 29.2 (2004): 357-385.

Peake, Linda and Karen de Souza. "Feminist Academic and Activist Praxis in Service of the Transnational." Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, Ed. Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. 105-123.

Pratt, Geraldine, in collaboration with the Phillippine Women Centre of BC and Ugnayan Ng Kabataang Pilipino Sa Canada/The Filipino-Canadain Youth Alliance. "Seeing Beyond the State: Toward Transnational Feminist Organizing." Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis, Ed. Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. 65-86.

Russo, Ann. “The Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid: The Intersection of Feminism and Imperialism in the United States.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 8, 4 (2006): 557-580.

Scott, David. The Re-enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter. Small Axe 8 (September 2000): 119-207.

Thomas, Greg. Proud Flesh Inter/Views: Sylvia Wynter. Proudflesh: A New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness, 4 (2006).

Weis, Lois and Michelle Fine. "Critical Bifocality and Circuits of Privilege: Expanding Critical Ethnographic Theory and Design." Harvard Educational Review 82, 2 (Summer 2012):  173-201.


Wynter, Sylvia. “The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism.” boundary 2, 12, 3: On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring-Autumn, 1984): 19-70.

Wynter, Sylvia. “On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desetre. Black Studies Toward the Human Project.” Not Only the Master’s Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice. Ed. Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Paradigm Publishers, 2006. 107-169.

Wynter, Sylvia. “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/ Power/ Truth/ Freedom. Towards the Human, After Man,  Its Overrepresentation--An Argument.” 257-337.