Body

The Ethics of Care and the Construction of Peace: Re-Existence Strategies Among Black Rural Women in Ladrilleros and Juanchaco, Municipality of Buenaventura

Alejandra del Rocío Bello-Urrego, Universidad del Tolima, Colombia

Fainting Representation and Scalar Transition in (Post)Dictatorial Chile in Nostalgia de la luz and Colectivo Acciones de Arte

Alberto López Cuenca, Renato Bermúdez Dini, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla / Universidad Iberoamericana

Security and Sexuality Devices in Mexico’s South Border: Biopolitics Face to Central American Trans-gender Women

Ernesto Antonio Zarco Ortiz, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, México
Karla Jeanette Chacón Reynosa, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, México

Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon. Variations on the colonial/decolonial archive

Alejandro de Oto adeoto@gmail.com Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas- (CONICET)-, Argentina Abstract: This paper focuses in weaving a notion of archive with heterogeneous materiales gathered from different registers in Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon’s writings. In order to do that, special attention is given to the dimension of body, which is especially present […]

Use of aesthetic modelants, as a body shaping process among transgender women

Abstract: Most research in Colombia regarding trans population health issues is related to sexually transmitted diseases. However, regarding body transformation has been scarcely studied despite its importance for the population. Therefore, this document describes the process of body formation from aesthetic modelants among some transgender women working in prostitution in Los Mártires neighborhood. Driven by social […]

Feminism, identity and Islam: crossroads, strategies and challenges in a transnational world

Abstract: This paper aims to address the phenomenon of Islamic feminism, by exploring the challenges it faces both in the Islamic community and within international feminism; considering the emerging debates around the “legitimation” of this trend, which has been tagged as an oxymoron by diverse actors. In this line, we wonder if negotiations, strains and […]

Muslim women’s veil (hijab): between colonialist ideology and Islamic discourse: a decolonial view

Abstract: The debate on Muslim women’s veil (hijab) has always been central in contemporary feminist discussion, and therefore it embodies the core of the conflict between two antinomic views: the one in neo-orientalist and hegemonic neo-western discourse, and a certain majoritarian traditionalist Islamic discourse. For some, it embodies patriarchal oppression while for others it is […]

Relics, sacraments and holy deaths: notes for understanding a treshold body. Case studies in Colonial America, 17th-18th centuries

Lily Jiménez, King’s College