Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jkksz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-28T05:10:14.944Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Letter-Writing as a Decolonial Feminist Praxis for Philosophical Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2020

Diana María Acevedo-Zapata Open the ORCID record for Diana María Acevedo-Zapata [Opens in a new window]
Diana María Acevedo-Zapata*
Affiliation:
Cienias Sociales, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia110221
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

According to Chandra Mohanty, there is no apolitical academy; academic and scholarly practices are in themselves political, insofar as they are inscribed in power and validation relations, which answer to and have effects upon the patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist structures to which they belong. In the case of philosophical writing, this means that the forms that regulate writing, that is, what determines how one must write in different contexts, are expressive of the power structures within philosophical academia. These power structures are upheld through time because of, among many other factors, the rendering invisible of the diversity of places of enunciation belonging to those who write and think in philosophy, and of the universalization of the privileges associated with said places of enunciation. In this article, I propose a way of writing letters that appeals to grammatical persons and their relation to the authors of the texts. Through this writing practice it is possible to make explicit the places of enunciation from which we write philosophy. This enables, first, making visible the privileges and oppressions of those writing philosophy; and second, generating small spaces of resistance and transformation of the oppressive power relations within the philosophical academy.

Type
Articles
Information
Hypatia , Volume 35 , Special Issue 3: Toward Decolonial Feminisms: Tracing the Lineages of Decolonial Thinking through Latin American/Latinx Feminist Philosophy , Summer 2020 , pp. 410 - 423
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hypatia, a Nonprofit Corporation

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bidaseca, Karina. 2014. Cartografías descoloniales de los feminismos del sur. Apresentação Revista Estudos Feministas 22 (2): 585–91.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bidaseca, Karina. 2015. Escritos en los cuerpos racializados. Lenguas, memoria y genealogías (pos)coloniales del feminicidio. Palma: Universitat de les Illes Balears.Google Scholar
Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1991. Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review 43 (6): 1241–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cunha, Teresa, and da Silva, Terezinha. 2016. Women in skirts: Decolonizing feminism. Paper presented at the Decolonizing Feminism International Conference, Johannesburg August 24–26.Google Scholar
Escritura y filosofía. 2019. Cartas del seminario experimental en escritura epistolar y enseñanza de la filosofía. http://escriturayfilosofia.blogspot.com/search/label/Seminario de escritura epistolar 2017-1.Google Scholar
Fanon, Frantz. 1994. Black skins, white masks. Trans. Lamm Markmann, Charles. London: Pluto Press.Google Scholar
Fricker, Miranda. 2007. Epistemic injustice: Power and the ethics of knowing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gargallo, Francesca. 2012. Feminismos desde Abya Yala: Ideas y proposiciones de las mujeres de 607 pueblos de nuestra América. Bogotá: Desde Abajo Ediciones.Google Scholar
Lima, Raquel. 2006. Monstro das três cabeças. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bJOHcPBqOQ.Google Scholar
Lorde, Audre. 1988. La casa del amo no se derrumba con las herramientas del amo. In Esta puente, mi espalda: Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos, ed. Moraga, Cherríe and Castillo, Ana. San Francisco: Ism press.Google Scholar
Lugones, María 1991. On the logic of pluralistic feminism. In Feminist ethics, ed. Card, Claudia. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.Google Scholar
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1984. Under western eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourse. In Third world women and the politics of feminism. ed. Mohanty, Chandra, Russo, Ann, and Torres, Lourdes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar
Quijano, Anibal. 2014. “Raza,” “étnia,” y “nación” en Mariátegui: cuestiones abiertas, ¡Qué tal raza! In Anibal Quijano: Textos de fundación, comp. Palermo, Zulma and Quintero, Pablo. Buenos Aires: Ediciones el Signo.Google Scholar
Segato, Rita Laura. 2007. La nación y sus otros: Raza, etnicididad y diversidad religiosa en tiempos de políticas de la identidad. Buenos Aires: Prometeo.Google Scholar
Segato, Rita Laura. 2014. La perspectiva de la colonialidad del poder. In Anibal Quijano: Textos de fundación, comp. Palermo, Zulma and Quintero, Pablo. Buenos Aires: Ediciones el Signo.Google Scholar
Young, Iris Marion. 2004. Five faces of oppression. In Oppression, privilege, and resistance: Theoretical perspectives on racism, sexism, and heterosexism, ed. Heldke, Lisa and O'Connor, Peg. Boston: McGraw Hill.Google Scholar