Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place

Laura Rodriguez Castro is a Resident Adjunct Research Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia.

• 1. Introduction: Colonial Feminisms and the Colonial Matrix of Power.- 2. Decolonial Feminisms: Place, Territory and the Body-land.- 3. Sentipensando and Unlearning.- 4. Politics of Place from the Home and the Vereda.- 5. Violences in the Territories Bodies-lands.- 6. Territorio Cuerpo-tierra and Colombian Women’s Organised Struggles.- 7. Conclusion:Towards a Compromiso Sentipensante.

“The book is clearly structured to help the reader follow her process and decolonial praxis … . For those committed to the exploration of decolonial, anti-racism and feminist insurgencies, the book provides several tools and methodological choices … . Rodríguez Castro work is a valuable contribution to the research on rural Latin America … . Her feeling-thinking commitment inspires and provides possibilities of decolonizing the academic world from the very beginning of our place and reflexibility.” (Giovana Possignolo, KULT_online - Review Journal for the Study of Culture, Issue 64, December, 2021)“An incredibly timely and relevant academic contribution to studies about women’s organization in moments of ongoing violence in Colombia … . offers important insights about gender, place, and culture, particularly as these are related to the ways in which we engage in feminist research. … The book feels honest in a way that is rare in the world of academia. The reader is invited to go behind the scenes and join Rodriguez Castro on her own journey of feeling-thinking, of sentipensando.” (Julia Margaret Zulver, Gender, Place & Culture, June 1, 2021)