This book draws on participatory ethnographic research to understand how rural Colombian women work to dismantle the coloniality of power. It critically examines the ways in which colonial feminisms have homogenized the "category of woman,” ignoring the intersecting relationship of class, race, and gender, thereby excluding the voices of “subaltern women” and upholding existing power structures. Supplementing that analysis are testimonials from rural Colombian women who speak about their struggles for sovereignty and against territorial, sexual, and racialized violence enacted upon their land and their bodies. By documenting the stories of rural women and centering their voices, this book seeks to dismantle the coloniality of power and gender, and narrate and imagine decolonial feminist worlds. Scholars in gender studies, rural studies, and post-colonial studies will find this work of interest.
Author(s): Laura Rodríguez Castro
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 208
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction: Colonial Feminisms and the Colonial Matrix of Power
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Dismantling Colonial Feminisms
1.2.1 Decolonial Feminisms and the Colonial Matrix of Power (CMP)
1.2.2 Epistemic Violence and Colonial Feminisms
1.2.3 Dismantling the Institutionalisation of Feminism
1.3 Projects Addressed
1.4 A Brief Context of Colombia
1.5 Structure of the Book
Appendix 1
References
2: Decolonial Feminisms: Place, Territory and the Body-Land
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Territorio Cuerpo-Tierra
2.3 Place/Lugar
2.4 Veredeando in the Colombian Countryside
2.5 Conclusion
References
3: Sentipensando and Unlearning
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Unlearning from Anti-Racism and Critical Feminist Reflexivity
3.2.1 Unlearning from the Borderlands
3.3 Sentipensando
3.3.1 Sentipensando Epistemic–Methodological Considerations
3.4 Conclusion
References
4: Politics of Place from the Home and the Vereda
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Home
4.3 The Vereda
4.4 Trajectories of Place to the City
4.5 Conclusion
References
5: Violences in the Territories and Body-Lands
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Armed Conflict
5.3 Territorial Dispossession of the Body-Land
5.3.1 Toca
5.3.2 Sierra
5.3.3 The Town of Minca
5.4 Conclusion
References
6: Territorio Cuerpo-tierra and Colombian Women’s Organised Struggles
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Territories and the Body-Land
6.3 Land Claims and Territorial Struggles
6.4 Resisting Violences as a Struggle of the Territorio Cuerpo-tierra
6.5 Food Sovereignty as a Struggle of the Territorio Cuerpo-Tierra
6.6 Towards Decolonial Other Worlds
6.7 Post-Peace Accord: Tensions and Hopes
References
7: Conclusion: Towards a Compromiso Sentipensante
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Dismantling Heteropatriarchy
7.3 Decolonial Feminisms and a Compromiso Sentipensante (Feeling-Thinking Commitment)
7.3.1 A Feeling-Thinking Commitment in the Neoliberal University?
7.4 The Epistemic Forces of Place
7.5 Conclusion
References
Index
