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Rooted-South Feminisms: Disobedient Epistemologies and Transformative Politics.
- Source :
- Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; Jun2024, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p116-137, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Recent writing by Latin American feminists offers a unique political philosophy based on a novel and transformative analysis of the relationship between capitalism, coloniality, patriarchy, and terracide. Focusing on the work of Rita Segato, Julieta Paredes, Lélia Gonzalez, Raquel Gutiérrez-Aguilar, and Moira Millán, this paper introduces the term "Rooted-South feminism" and outlines its epistemic-rationality. I first show how these thinkers root their epistemological frame in the collective struggle of racialized women. Through this account I then make explicit the relational political ontology that grounds their thinking, paradigmatically expressed in the notions of "territory-body-land" and "terracide." In describing how patriarchy functions as a system of domination that desensitises subjects to the suffering of the Other, I argue that Rooted-South feminists expose the structural relationship between capitalism, coloniality, violence against women, and the destruction of the Earth. Here, the feminine is conceived as a social function produced throughout the long histories of women. This "politics in a feminine key" uniquely understands the sphere of reproduction not simply as a vector of domination, but as the foundation for the liberation and regeneration of life in its totality. Rooted-South feminists propose an authentic historical pluralism engaged in the co-construction of an inhabited earth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10455752
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177394781
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2023.2259507