Gender

White Men in Black Lands. Racial Phallotopies in Colombia’s Southern Pacific

Mateo Pazos, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Tags: Gender, masculinities, racism, whiteness

Desiring a connection with others. Learning from and with dogs through artistic research

Angela Bartram, University of Derby, UK

Tags: artistic, dogs, empathy, equality, Gender, synchronicity

Zapatista Women Reconceptualizing their Struggle

Sylvia Marcos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Tags: duality-fluidity, Gender, interconnection of all living beings, Meso-American episteme, parity-equality, think with heart, Zapatista women

Caught Between the Zone of Being and Nonbeing. The Contemporary Economics of Cruelty

Alejandra del Rocío Bello-Urrego, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Tags: coloniality, cruelty, Gender, government of bodies, necropolitics, nonbeing zone

The Border Industrial Complex, Sexuality and Gender

Camila Esguerra Muelle, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

Tags: care regimes, Gender, LGBT, migrating meat, migration, sexuality

Juvenile Cultures and ‘Gendered Networks’. Towards a New Analytic Approach on Youth Contemporaneity in Colombia

Leonardo Montenegro Martínez, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca y Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Tags: Gender, identity, subject positions, subjectivity, youth cultures

The Perspective of Gender and Criminology: A Prolific Relationship

Norma Fuller nfuller@pucp.edu.pe Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Abstract: This article revises the most important tendencies in studies about criminology and gender and analyzes the results of several investigations carried out to discuss what have been the principal contributions, open issues and questions. It concludes that these studies denounce the androcentric approach of criminology, visualize female […]

Tags: criminology, Gender, gender violence, police cultura

Recovered companies in Argentina: gendered production, space and schedule

María Inés Fernández Álvarez mfernandezalvarez@conicet.gov.ar CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Florencia Partenio fpartenio@ceil-piette.gov.ar CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Abstract: The recovery of companies and factories has been one of the most intriguing social mobilization experiences in recent years in Argentina. The term recovered factory has been used to name a specific struggle for […]

Tags: Gender, recovered companies, self-management, social mobilization, work

The concept of “racism” in Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon: theorizing from the being or the nonbeing zone?

Ramón Grosfoguel grosfogu@berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley, USA Abstract: This paper deals with the historic emergence of racism in the world-system and the definition of racism. It discusses by counterpointing Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon’s views on racism. This paper provides a discussion on the decolonial epistemic implications of Fanon’s theory on racism. Keywords: racism, […]

Tags: decolonial, essentialism, Gender, interseccionality, racism

Hegemonic, subaltern and/or alternative aesthetic models —A class and gender ethnic-racial approach

Vanessa Ortiz Piedrahíta ortizvanessa9@gmail.com Universidad del Pacífico, Colombia Abstract: This paper aims to reflect theoretically on racialized aesthetic models widespread in contemporary societies. To this end, a bibliographic review was performed, upon which we explore and discuss the way how the socio-racial order imposed on the nation from the colonial period on has setup a […]

Tags: aesthetic models, ethnic group-race, Gender, social class

Racism, racial democracy, mestizaje and sex/gender relations

Peter Wade peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk University of Manchester, UK Abstract: Latin American ideologies and practices of mestizaje contain within them dynamics of equality and difference and of racial democracy and racism at the same time. I explore how this simultaneous co-existence operates in large part through complex entanglements of sexuality, gender and race/ethnicity, which take place at […]

Tags: Gender, Latin America, mestizaje, race, sex

Social processes in building grassroots habitat

Abstract: This paper deals with the analytical process under way as a result of three related research works. Initially, it is the acknowledgement or making visible the role of woman in building her habitat; then, is the starting of local programs based on that acknowledgement and strengthening, and finally, is the analysis of why not […]

Tags: environmental perception, Gender, hábitat, Local development, social behaviors

Conquest chronicles. Gender stereotypy in the clash between two worlds —The case of Costa Rica

Abstract: This inquiry aims to analyze, following a gender approach, Costa Rican Discovery, Conquest and Colonization Chronicles. Based on the written trace left by Cristopher Columbus, Juan Vázquez de Coronado and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, we will prove how the way the described and perceived the New World played a decisive role in the introduction […]

Tags: Chronicles, colonization, discourse, Gender, indigenous population, woman

Islamic Feminism, Intersectionality and Decoloniality

Abstract: This paper argues that intersectionality provides Islamic feminism with a useful approach to understanding the lived experiences of Muslim women. In order to become truly emancipatory, however, intersectionality should be combined with a decolonial approach. Though de-centering the secular liberal ontology of mainstream western feminism and calling for a critical analysis of the global […]

Tags: decoloniality, feminism, Gender, intersectionality, Islamic feminism

Conflict and Violence: Gendered Relationships, Cultural Expressions and Distress

Anna María Fernández Poncela, UAM/Xochimilco, México

Tags: conflict, cultural narratives, culture, emotions, Gender, violence

Minors swinging between continents. Cartographies of gender oppression among African girls migrating to Spain

Esther Torrado, Universidad de La Laguna

Tags: Gender, invisibility, irregularity, migration, trafficking and human smuggling, unaccompanied minors