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Muddying the waters : coauthoring feminisms across scholarship and activism
\"In Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar uses stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, to grapple 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 Salaaam to farms and development offices in North India inform discussion of the labor and politics of co-authorship, translation and genre blending in research and writing that cross multiple--and often difficult--borders, Nagar links the implicit assumptions, issues, and questions involved with scholarship and political action, and explores the epistemological risks and possibilities of creative research that brings these into intimate dialogue. Daringly self-conscious, Muddying the Waters reveals a politically engaged research and writer working to become \"radically vulnerable,\" and on the ways a focus on such radical vulnerability could allow a re-imagining of collaboration that opens new avenues to collective dreaming and laboring across sociopolitical, geographical, linguistic, and institutional borders\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Muddying the Waters
In Muddying the Waters , Richa Nagar uses stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, to grapple 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 Salaaam to farms and development offices in North India inform discussion of the labor and politics of co-authorship, translation and genre blending in research and writing that cross multiple--and often difficult--borders, Nagar links the implicit assumptions, issues, and questions involved with scholarship and political action, and explores the epistemological risks and possibilities of creative research that brings these into intimate dialogue. Daringly self-conscious, Muddying the Waters reveals a politically engaged research and writer working to become \"radically vulnerable,\" and on the ways a focus on such radical vulnerability could allow a re-imagining of collaboration that opens new avenues to collective dreaming and laboring across sociopolitical, geographical, linguistic, and institutional borders.
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Hungry translations : relearning the world through radical vulnerability
About the struggles of thousands Dalit women, laborers and peasants of Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh under Sangatina; includes not only the words and reflections of many saathis of Sangtin, but also the everyday stories of their struggles, poems by Richa Nagar and a play.
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Feminisms, Collaborations, Friendships: A Conversation
This conversation with Richa Nagar about feminist friendships and co-authorships emerged from a collaborative interview as a way to resist individualism, career-centric-orientations and academic-stardom; themes that are prominent in the interview itself. The conversation explores the process of collaborative writing, how it challenges hegemonic modes of knowledge production, and what types of relationships sustain such an engagement, based on Richa’s experiences in collectively writingPlaying with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in Indiawith theSangtin Writers Collective. The conversation foregrounds the significance of deep relationality in defining situated solidarities, transnational feminist collaborations, and the meanings and possibilities of co-authorship, and sparked new conversations about each of our journeys as activists, intellectuals, and immigrants who lived multiple, and often bi-national, political lives. This conversation is chiefly an elaboration on the theme of feminist friendships, trust, and radical vulnerability that allows collective writing to navigate the hierarchies of knowledge production and the publication industry. The ideas about ‘co-authorship,’ 'collaboration,' and ‘friendship’ that Richa Nagar articulates throughout this interview allowed us to think about friendship as radical vulnerability and has unsettled our notion of friendship, feminist cooperation, and intimacy and made us acutely aware of the multifarious sites of power and creativity within academic and activist spaces alike, as well as our positions and relationships within these domains.
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Effect of air pollutants on physiological parameters and yield attributes of paddy and wheat crops in Faridabad region, India
Air pollution is one of the major problems in the Delhi NCR region due to industrial emissions, traffic congestion, population growth and rapid development. Air pollutants deteriorate the environment, human health, plants and crops. This study focuses on the physiological parameters and yield attributes of paddy and wheat crops in the vicinity of a gas-based national thermal power plant (NTPC) located in Faridabad. Ten sites were selected, including the control site within a 10 km aerial distance from the exhaust chimney stack of the power plant. Major air pollutants, such as NOx, SOx, O3, and PM10, were monitored using Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) guidelines. The air quality index (AQI) was moderately polluted at the sampling site, while good air quality was observed at the control site. The results showed that the photosynthetic rates were reduced to 46% in paddies and 48% in wheat crops. In the vegetative growth stage of paddies and wheat crops, the stomatal conductance of paddies decreased to 0.11 mmol m-2s-1 compared to 0.19 mmol m-2s-1 at the control site. The transpiration rate ranged from 0.6 to 7.7 μmol/m2/s in paddies and 1.2 to 9.8 μmol/m2/s in wheat crops. The R2 value ranged from 0.702 to 0.985, which shows a strong impact of the air quality index on the physiological parameters of crops. The yield reduction due to air pollution in paddies was 11.6%, and in wheat crops, it was 14.8%. This study also provides an inventory of air pollutants in Faridabad region and their subsequent impacts on crops.
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Feminisms, Collaborations, Friendships: A Conversation
This conversation with Richa Nagar about feminist friendships and co-authorships emerged from a collaborative interview as a way to resist individualism, career-centric-orientations
and academic-stardom; themes that are prominent in the interview itself. The conversation explores the process of collaborative writing, how it challenges hegemonic modes of
knowledge production, and what types of relationships sustain such an engagement, based on Richa’s experiences in collectively writing Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought
and Activism Through Seven Lives in India with the Sangtin Writers Collective. The conversation foregrounds the significance of deep relationality in
defining situated solidarities, transnational feminist collaborations, and the meanings and possibilities of co-authorship, and sparked new conversations about each of our journeys
as activists, intellectuals, and immigrants who lived multiple, and often bi-national, political lives. This conversation is chiefly an elaboration on the theme of feminist
friendships, trust, and radical vulnerability that allows collective writing to navigate the hierarchies of knowledge production and the publication industry. The ideas about
‘co-authorship,’ 'collaboration,' and ‘friendship’ that Richa Nagar articulates throughout this interview allowed us to think about friendship as radical vulnerability and has
unsettled our notion of friendship, feminist cooperation, and intimacy and made us acutely aware of the multifarious sites of power and creativity within academic and activist
spaces alike, as well as our positions and relationships within these domains.
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Playing with Fire
Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, casteism, and communalism, and a startling picture emerges of how NGOs both nourish and stifle local struggles for solidarity.
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Nano-enabled delivery of plant polyphenols: a climate-resilient strategy for enhancing crop stress tolerance and productivity
Climate change is posing resilience challenge in crops worldwide with stressors ranging from drought, salinity, heat waves to heavy metal toxicity. These stressors signal the plants to synthesize bioprotective polyphenols. While plants synthesize many polyphenolic compounds such as flavonoids, phenolic acids, and tannins which function as potent antioxidants and signalling molecules, their natural adaptive capacity is often modulated by rapid environmental changes. The exogenous application of these bioprotectants in conventional agriculture is limited by their low aqueous solubility, physico-chemical instability, and rapid degradation. This review explores Nano-Enabled Delivery as a transformative strategy to overcome these limitations and bioengineer climate-resilient crops. The diverse nanocarrier systems ranging from lipid-based liposomes and biodegradable polymers (e.g., chitosan) to metallic (ZnO, TiO
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) and mesoporous silica nanoparticles designed to encapsulate and shield bioactive polyphenols have been discussed. Mechanistically, these formulations function not only as transport vehicles but also as eustress elicitors that activate MYB transcription factors. This signalling cascade upregulates the Shikimate and Phenylpropanoid pathways, effectively boosting the endogenous supply and assembly lines for defense metabolites like flavonoids and lignin. In practical applications, this dual action sustained exogenous delivery coupled with metabolic activation significantly enhances crop resilience by optimizing ROS scavenging, maintaining osmotic balance, and protecting photosynthetic machinery under severe stress conditions. The review concludes by mapping the translational pathway from mechanistic hydroponic studies to open field validation, presenting nano-polyphenols as a sustainable, high efficiency alternative to synthetic agrochemicals for precision agriculture and climate resilience.
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Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis
Provocative, timely, and global, this volume offers a critical and grounded engagement with transnational feminism through the lens of praxis—the juncture of theory and practice. In so doing, it grapples with questions of power and representation while remaining deeply committed to radical critiques and agendas of transnational and postcolonial feminisms. Long-time activists and well-known scholars speak to a wide range of issues and practices, including women's studies curricula; NGOs; transnational and LGBTQ studies; feminist methodologies; and film. These essays similarly conceptualize ways to more effectively theorize feminist collaborative practices while subverting such rigid, established dichotomies as theory/practice, academic/activist, individual/collaborative, and the global North/South. A number of transnational projects are highlighted: the Guyanese Red Thread collective; the Ananya Dance Theater; the Philippine Women Center of British Columbia; the Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance; the VIVA! Project; and the Indian organization Sangtin. Comprehensive in scope and rigorous in critical scrutiny, these powerful essays set the twenty-first-century agenda for political engagement through feminist scholarship.
\"The mix of styles makes for a lively read that is accessible for its extraordinary candor, its combination of theory with firmly grounded empirical examples, and an unflinching confrontation of pain and conflict. It made me think about entirely new things and about familiar things in new ways and to make connections among them.\" — Louise Fortmann, University of California Berkeley
Amanda Lock Swarr is Assistant Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Richa Nagar is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author (with Sangtin writers) of Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India.
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