Decolonial Feminisms: Place, Territory and the Body-Land
This chapter presents the conceptual–epistemic–methodological context for the book based on the work of decolonial and communitarian feminisms from Latin America. I demonstrate how decolonial and communitarian feminists seek to dismantle the perspectives
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Laura Rodríguez Castro
Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place “This book vividly demonstrates why Latin American feminisms have become the most vibrant arena of critical thought and struggle in Latin America at present. Throughout its pages, the reader is presented with the incredible richness of feminisms from below. Building on a careful analysis of women’s territorial struggles against territorial dispossession and extractivist projects, the author powerfully shows why ‘the epistemic force of place’ has become the preeminent foundation for a popular-communal feminist politics of place that confronts heteropatriarchal and racist relations while fostering relational modes of re-existence centered on justice, healing and care. Along the way, the book explores in depth the Latin American emphasis on sentipensar as a methodological, theoretical and political research approach appropriate to working with grassroots struggles and transformative initiatives. This farsighted book should be of great interest to students and activists in those fields dealing with issues of gender, environment, development, rurality, and globalization.” —Arturo Escobar, Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, author of Encountering Development and Designs for the Pluriverse “Through sustained and nuanced ethnographic work and a critically informed reflexive lens, Rodriguez Castro draws on the voices of women in rural Colombia to offer a significant challenge to the dominant ‘white saviour’ narratives and neoliberal development agendas of colonial feminism. Framing her sophisticated analysis is a theory of place, bodies and territories which attends to questions of violence, recognises rural women’s resistance, and addresses crucial subjects for global equality, including food sovereignty and environmental degradation. It is thus a book which speaks powerfully to key contemporary debates not only in feminism, but also in rural geography and political studies.” —Barbara Pini, Professor of Gender Studies, Griffith University, Australia “Rodriguez Castro writes about the body and place, like Spivak, in ways that stir reflexivity. This beautifully written text troubles colonial feminisms and, at its core, is a collaboration with Colombian rural women whose biographies, experiences, sensations and imaginations come alive in this text. This book is a welcome and much needed contribution to studies of rurality and gender.” —Lia Bryant, Professor of Sociology and Social Work, University of South Australia
“A fascinating decolonial journey, operating on two relational scales: on a community level, exploring the struggles of rural women in Colombia, their experiences of violence and their demands for autonomy; and, on a personal level, reflecting on the positionality of an urban white-mestiza in the research, the academy and in the world. This is absolutely brilliant.” —Menelaos Gkartzios, Reader in Planning and Rural Development, Newcastle University, UK “This meticulously researched and richly illustrat
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