Co-making solidarities through radical publishing: micropractices of minor transnationalism with Beatrix Pang and migrant domestic workers.
This article examines how migrant domestic workers' knowledge becomes legible and sustained under conditions of precarity by theorizing co-making as a methodological intervention into minor transnationalism. Rather than treating solidarity as a pre-given alignment or an achieved outcome, I approach...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 334 - 353 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2026
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