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.

“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)

• 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.