Week 7 - Decolonial Feminism (Lugones)

Question 1

Dichotomies (Lugones)

Answer 1

Hierarchical dichotomy. Central thought of the colonizing process to separate populations between rational humans and non-humans (animals, non-rational). Here the titles “man” and “woman” are only possible for the “civilized” Europeans.

Question 2

Colonial Modernity

Answer 2

Denial of the existence of other worlds with different ontological presuppositions through the creation of the concept of “modernity”.

Question 3

Coloniality of gender

Answer 3

Analysis of gender oppression (racialized and capitalist oppression). It allows us to understand gender as a colonial imposition that involves generalizing and racializing economic systems.

Question 4

Hierarchies of transation

Answer 4

Some indigenous cultures have concepts such as “koshkalaka” or “chachawarmi” that allow us to understand gender beyond the traditional dichotomous conception. To translate them is to exercise a coloniality of language through colonial translation.

Question 5

Fractured locus

Answer 5

The “locus” can be interpreted as the perception that a person has about his agency and about the causal agents of his events (oppression, in this case). A fractured locus can be understood as one of the results of the colonial process by distorting the perception of colonized individuals about their own agency.

Question 6

Decolonial feminism

Answer 6

“I call the possibility of defeating gender coloniality” decolonial feminism “

(See coloniality of gender)

Question 7

Feminist universalism

Answer 7

It allows us to understand the interaction between race, sexuality, class and gender as something that goes beyond the categories imposed by modernity.