From South America, Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier shares her encounters with Asian researchers and educators Amporn Marddent, Monira Ashan, and the Venerable Dhammananda. From their diverse backgrounds as academics, teachers, migrants, and activists engaged in culture and spirituality, they bring a range of issues that highlight the inherent relationship between knowledge production and a caring position towards the world.
Through reflections and experiences related to traditions, feminisms, care, violence, migration, motherhood, and racism, they question the boundaries between the personal and the political, the individual and the collective, the sacred and the profane, nature and humanity, creating a wheel of possibilities for reorienting good living. Thus, the four authors learn and teach, from a plural Global South, to “carefully” understand the becoming of feminine subjectivities and their political potentials.
By Lucrecia Greco
Access the book Vidas Ativas – Active Lives, stories of three women in Asia