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Living a callejera methodology: Grounding María Lugones' streetwalker theorizing in feminist decolonial praxis.
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Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography . Nov2022, Vol. 29 Issue 11, p1528-1545. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This intervention considers how the writings of María Lugones, a philosopher of feminist decolonial theory, might shape a callejera [streetwalker] feminist decolonial methodology and what such a methodology might look like in practice. I describe how a callejera methodology foments deeper relationality by highlighting as methodological tools three of Lugones' concepts: resisting ↔ oppressing, the collective and tantear en la oscuridad. To ground the theory and illustrate possibilities of deeper relationality offered by a callejera methodology, I reflect on on-going research with Colombian collectives actively negotiating experiences of indigeneity and womanhood in relation to histories of colonial and more recent armed violence, as well as ongoing state disinvestment. I make three contributions. First, I suggest that integrating an intersectional analytic of 'both/and' with the complex fluidity between Lugones' concept of resisting ↔ oppressing permits scholars to better understand the negotiation of multiple, intermeshed identities and oppressions, social inequality and power relations in relation to colonial histories and presents. Second, I encourage geographers to embrace a decolonial lens attentive to the relationality between and among collectives, from which many acts of resistance begin. Finally, I consider how a callejera methodology considers coalitional work as central to the research process. Such work embraces difficulty, discomfort and messy relationality often negotiated as if walking blindly through the dark (tantear). I conclude by arguing that geographers' relationally-based research can strengthen feminist decolonial thought in our attention to spatial and temporal scalar differences of place and our commitment to understanding contextually differentiated navigations of identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PRAXIS (Process)
*POWER (Social sciences)
*DECOLONIZATION
*FEMINISM
*EQUALITY
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0966369X
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160164834
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2081133