Ripping, Cutting, Stitching

shine choi is lecturer at the school of people, environment and planning at Massey University. She is associate editor of International Feminist Journal of Politics. Saara Särmä is postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University. She is the co-founder of the Feminist Think Tank Hattu. Cristina Masters is lecturer in international politics at the University of Manchester. Marysia Zalewski is professor of international relations at Cardiff University. Her research has been supported by the British Academy, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and The British Council. In recognition of her international research profile, her major impact on the development of critical IR, and her mentorship of junior scholars, she was presented with an Eminent Scholar Award in 2013 by the International Studies Association. Michelle Lee Brown is postdoctoral researcher in indigenous politics at the University of Hawaii. Swati Parashar is professor in Peace and Development at the University of Gothenburg.

Part I

1: how to read this book that is not a book

2: frankenstinian encounters: feeling the ways

3: on writing

4: collective writing/writing collectively

5: playground relations

6: calling out (via) disjunctures

7: what is at stake?

A pause, a breather: I was distracted …

PART II

8: black cats, the seduction of usefulness and cracks

9: perverse love letter

10: writing exhaustion – the unbearable weight of white feminism

11: composting anger: why I/we refuse your 'diversity' and the 'womanofcolour' tag

12: planet white boys

13: on exhaustion and enchantment

14: can feminism be a comma?

15: exhausted (again) of the normal

16: academic friendships and angers (not?) worth holding onto

17: on writing and this book

PART III

18: a shaking…

19: feminist practices of knowledge formation…

20: trajectories….?

21: imagining other futures…

22: dreaming of other futures…

23: Poetics of a handbook – or some suggestions for better practices… (for those still in academia…)

24: be(com)ing undisciplined…