Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2264638
Paulina Ultreras Villagrana, Jennie Gamlin, María Teresa Fernández Aceves
ABSTRACT Understanding the coloniality of gendered lives, family dynamics, social arrangements, and political structures in Indigenous communities begins with confronting and interrogating a history written largely by and for men in positions of power. The archives are limited in terms of what can be gleaned about gender equality and what existed before the proliferation of European patriarchy. Indigenous Wixárika people tread a delicate balance between a lifeworld that is organised around a ritual–agricultural cycle, and the accelerating incorporation of the imperial mode of living and the coloniality of being, into their communities and culture. The ‘coloniality of gender’ explains how Indigenous women and men have been drawn into and shaped through contact zones, these sites of imperial intervention that have brought social, cultural, and structural changes to gender. Problematically, this concept assumes a one-way process of domination, whereby modern European power structures were imposed on Indigenous people. A critical exploration reveals how gender dynamics and equality were influenced by a much messier process, entangled with Wixárika’s cultural and religious systems as well as the leveraging of political collateral. This paper will draw on findings from a historical and ethnographic study of the coloniality of gender in Indigenous Wixárika communities. We will critically examine archival evidence alongside oral histories to suggest how social, development, and political interventions from the late 20th century challenge the idea of the ‘coloniality of gender’, and discuss how past and present actants collide and dialogue to bring about social change and greater gender equality.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2252277
Diana Ordóñez Castillo
ABSTRACT Institutional strengthening, securitisation, free market promotion, and development policy implementation are foundational elements of liberal peace. However, the creation of an inferior colonisable other sustains this link and has justified programmes of violent repression and silencing. Decolonial, post-liberal, localised, and feminist peace-building stances condemn those power structures and promote alternative means of achieving well-being and social transformation. Women have played a significant role in these struggles in Colombia. Among other initiatives, feminist and women’s social movements have embraced works of memory, including museums of memory, as mechanisms to produce difficult knowledge about their painful past and alternative ways to build peace. This article explores the role of women in peace-building process via case studies of two community-based museums of memory in Colombia. Cases analysed embody ways in which knowledge is created regarding war, suffering, and reflection on the significance of living a dignified life, pursuing well-being, social justice, and peaceful coexistence. Memories gathered in these museums not only recount victimising incidents but also testify to how women elevate the discussion about the colonial and patriarchal roots underpinning Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict, and how it relates to development. Findings contribute to the discussion on the challenges of peace building, which include imagining roles for women in producing knowledge beyond the stereotypes that are imposed on us, even in peace.
ABSTRACT Institutional strengthening, securitisation, free market promotion, and development policy implementation are foundamentamental elements of liberal peace.然而，制造劣等殖民地化的他者维持了这种联系，并为暴力镇压和沉默计划提供了理由。非殖民化、后自由主义、本土化和女权主义的和平建设立场谴责这些权力结构，并提倡以其他方式实现福祉和社会变革。在哥伦比亚，妇女在这些斗争中发挥了重要作用。除其他举措外，女权主义和妇女社会运动还将记忆作品（包括记忆博物馆）作为一种机制，以产生关于其痛苦过去的艰难知识和建设和平的替代方法。本文通过对哥伦比亚两个社区记忆博物馆的案例研究，探讨了妇女在和平建设进程中的作用。所分析的案例体现了创造有关战争、苦难的知识的方式，以及对有尊严的生活、追求幸福、社会正义与和平共处的意义的反思。在这些博物馆中收集的记忆不仅记述了受害事件，还证明了妇女如何提升关于哥伦比亚长达数十年武装冲突的殖民和父权根源的讨论，以及它与发展的关系。研究结果有助于讨论建设和平所面临的挑战，其中包括想象妇女在生产知识方面的作用，超越强加给我们的陈规定型观念，即使是在和平时期。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2249766
Advaita Rajendra, Ankur Sarin
ABSTRACT Knowledge systems characterised by classification, categorisation, and data collection underlie efforts to govern. This paper critically examines knowledge collected by central governing entities in India about waste in an urban local body – specifically through the National Cleanliness Survey or Swachh Survekshan. Relying extensively on field work in Rajpur (2018–2019), one of the highest ranked urban areas in the survey, we reflect on the process of knowledge creation. We find that, even as we come to know, understand, and treat waste, existing hierarchies of race, class, caste, and gender find ways of re-expressing themselves. Intimately tied to its preoccupation with the occupation of physical space, the state’s (and by consequence, the dominant) gaze at waste is primarily a visual one with the central project stripping the knowledge of sensory aspects in efforts to enhance claims of ‘scientific’ knowledge. Much like the mechanisms of the state, formal processes of research too have privileged ways of seeing and hearing (through photographs, writings, and presentations) as opposed to other sensory means of learning like smell and touch. Smell and touch that shape knowledge systems intimately and are the fundamental organising principle of several social norms, like caste, in South Asia are rather difficult to capture. Drawing on a bricolage of methods – including primary field work, document analysis, and visual data, this paper explores waste as entangled in gender, caste, and colonial histories. Further, it lays a pathway for a multi-sensorial understanding of (in)visibilisation.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2256580
Clara Desalvo, Shama Dossa, Boikanyo Modungwa
ABSTRACT Patriarchal, imperialist, and colonial forces have long attempted to delegitimise global South epistemologies and elevate Western modes of thinking, knowing, and therefore being. In particular, within development discourse, the principles and practice of mainstream Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (popularly known as MEL) continue to legitimise these forms of knowledge construction, production, and dissemination. Traditional MEL is based on the assumption that grantees must provide ‘accountability’ to donors and ‘evidence’ to establish value for money based on predefined indicators and logframes. This approach to MEL has worked to erase the voices of girls, women, indigenous people, LGBTQI+, and others from the history of social change and to disconnect activists, collectives, and movements from a deep well of knowledge and learning. A collective reimagining of MEL is needed. Although there have been a number of alternative approaches and frameworks proposed, these remain on the periphery with most funders continuing to require grantees to fulfil multiple regimental reporting requirements to justify being funded. In this article, through a collective conversation, we document our shared learning. We showcase three diverse cases in which we as feminist practitioners and the movements we support are attempting to disrupt oppressive MEL structures, tools, and language, and funder practices as profound acts of resistance.
ABSTRACT Patriarchal, imperialist, and colonial forces have long attempted to delegitimize global South epistemologies and elevate Western modes of thinking, knowing, and therefore being.特别是在发展话语中，主流监测、评估和学习（俗称 MEL）的原则和实践继续使这些知识构建、生产和传播的形式合法化。传统的监测、评估和学习（MEL）所依据的假设是，受资助者必须向捐助者提供 "责 任 "和 "证据"，以便根据预先确定的指标和逻辑框架确定资金的价值。这种 MEL 方法将女孩、妇女、原住民、LGBTQI+（男女同性恋、双性恋、变性者和跨性别者）等人的声音从社会变革的历史中抹去，使活动家、集体和运动与深厚的知识和学习相脱节。需要对 MEL 进行集体重新构想。尽管已经提出了一些替代方法和框架，但这些方法和框架仍然处于边缘地位，大多数资助者仍然要求受资助者满足多种报告要求，以证明其获得资助的正当性。在本文中，我们通过集体对话，记录了我们共同的学习成果。我们展示了三个不同的案例，在这些案例中，我们作为女权实践者和我们所支持的运动，正试图打破压迫性的 MEL 结构、工具和语言，以及资助者的做法，以此作为深刻的反抗行为。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2255055
Natalia Reinoso-Chávez, Laura Fonseca, Maria Ale-jandra Fino, Yasleidy Guerrero, Tatiana Muñoz, Carolina Gómez
ABSTRACT Recognition and preservation of local knowledge, practices, and ways of being are tenets of decolonial practices. However, understanding how, in which ways, and – mainly – who does the decolonial work is still unclear. The Education, Land, and Reconciliation Project (EDUCARE in Spanish) is an action-research initiative co-created between former guerrilla members who are reincorporating into Colombian society while building their new rural community and a group of community and educational psychologists and researchers from an urban university. This project aims to co-construct an educational model recognising peasant (campesino) practices and values and the philosophy of Good Living (Buen Vivir). The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic dialogue among six women: three former guerrilla members who are part of the project and three researchers (at different moments in their careers) about the roles, tensions, and learnings between partners in the project and how they positioned themselves throughout the process. Through focus group discussions and dialogical encounters, we jointly explore the journey of co-implementation. We focus on questions about what counts as knowledge production, and the tensions that arise within the community and outside it as a result of this collaborative effort.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2256581
Katia Taela
ABSTRACT South–South Co-operation (SSC) has become increasingly important in international development policy and practice as both alternative and complementary to North–South Co-operation. Crafted through the acceptance, appropriation, and instrumentalisation of a colonialist idea of an underdeveloped world, SSC has been historically defined as an expression of Southern solidarity, through which developing countries collaborate to achieve progress, modernity, and development. It is often claimed to involve mutually beneficial, horizontal exchange of resources between developing countries – particularly knowledge – and to foster decolonising practices. In this paper, I argue that while one of the starting points for SSC was opposition to North–South knowledge hierarchies, its legitimisation has been constructed through postcolonial power inequalities and new forms of authoritative knowledge that reiterate old hierarchies. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research conducted as part of my doctoral studies, I show how the building and international legitimatisation of Brazilian ‘best practices’ – in the gender equality field – has produced a political economy of opportunities and mobility for these professionals; their professional pathways to Mozambique are indicative of the processes of production of Southern expertise and new knowledge hierarchies. I also discuss Brazilian development workers’ discourses about the relevance of Brazilian experiences to Mozambique. Theoretically, the paper is inspired by critical development theory with a feminist and postcolonial approach. It uses postcolonial literature, usually applied to relations between colonisers and former colonies, to look at how colonial discourses and discourses about Africa, the ‘Third World’, and the West historically intervened in the encounters between people from former colonies and continue to be activated. Specifically, I analyse imaginaries of ‘Southern’ and ‘developing country’ identity embedded in expertise claims.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2249765
Yuri Fraccaroli
ABSTRACT This article examines the challenges faced by Acervo Bajubá, an LGBT+ community archive located in São Paulo, Brazil. Departing from the observation of a disconnect between the recognition of the archive’s importance in terms of the content it holds and its consideration as a community epistemological project, the article argues for a paradigm shift in understanding archives. Contrariwise, the article proposes viewing Acervo Bajubá as an epistemological project that challenges conventional notions of community, history, and memory. It calls for a re-evaluation of the archive’s material conditions, bringing them to the forefront, and operating a recognition of its role as a legitimate knowledge producer – and not only as a repository for disciplinary projects and commitments. The article suggests that by expanding the concept of the archive-as-object and embracing archive-as-community-practice, alternative relationships with the past can be forged. Finally, through the analysis of two art-pieces produced in the context of an inventory process, the article argues for a concept and practice of archive that challenges disembodied notions of history, memory, and community, emphasising community practice and recognising the lives and bodies embedded within archival devices. It concludes by highlighting the importance of grounding the archive in the present time, and fostering creative tactics for envisioning alternative historical imaginaries and political repertoires.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2267385
Hayma Alyousfi, Rand Sabbagh
ABSTRACT This article delves into the Syrian Female Journalists Network’s (SFJN) approach to decolonise knowledge production, focusing on a multi-faceted deconstructive framework. Through an examination of our analytic and deconstructive process of media language and discourse, our methodology centres on identifying and challenging prevailing patriarchal and colonial power dynamics and binaries within language, particularly in the Syrian media context. Furthermore, our article addresses the transformative role of language in collectively contesting colonial structures through translation and meaning-making processes. Additionally, the article underscores the utilisation of self-identification as a feminist decolonial strategy, emphasising its role in dismantling fixed identity categories and amplifying marginalised voices. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of accountability towards targeted communities by fostering inclusivity, securing access to knowledge, and validating diverse perspectives. Ultimately, this article offers an insight into SFJN’s nuanced approach of decolonising knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2249764
Efemia Chela
ABSTRACT This article explores the subcultures and experiences of LBQ (lesbian, bisexual, and queer) women and non-binary individuals in Lusaka, Zambia, against the backdrop of draconian anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and rising homophobia in Africa. Drawing upon decolonial feminist methodology, the study investigates how these marginalised communities navigate hostile environments where their sexual orientation is criminalised and stigmatised by both the state and society. It begins by discussing the intersection of colonialism, religious influence, and cultural contexts in perpetuating discriminatory trends. It delves into the clandestine world of queer parties and activism in Lusaka, examining the everyday practices of decoloniality undertaken. The research methodology employed intellectual decolonisation to engage participants in the co-creation of knowledge and alternative narratives of Zambian citizenship and womanhood. By showcasing the resilience and resistance of LBQ women and non-binary individuals who form supportive networks, the article challenges the dominant construction of Zambia as a nation built on cisgender heteronormative and conservative religious values. It illuminates the vibrant subcultures and community formations that emerge despite legal barriers and patriarchal interpretations of traditional culture. The article contributes to a living archive of queer African experiences and expands the understanding of Zambian identities beyond conventional norms. It underscores the transformative potential of decolonial methodologies in challenging exclusionary notions of nationhood and fostering a more inclusive and diverse society.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2023.2259204
Nadine Panayot
ABSTRACT Decolonising museums has become a popular issue in recent years as many museums have recognised the need to address how they have historically perpetuated colonialism and exclusion. One way in which museums can work towards gender diversity and inclusion is by actively seeking and amplifying the voices and perspectives of women and under-represented groups. This can be done through exhibitions, programming, and hiring practices that prioritise diverse perspectives and experiences. An important aspect of decolonising museums is re-evaluating how artefacts and collections are presented and interpreted. Museums have often reinforced patriarchal and colonial narratives in the past, and it is important to work actively towards a more inclusive and equitable representation of history. This can include re-contextualising artefacts to highlight the perspectives and contributions of marginalised groups, as well as actively seeking and acquiring artefacts that represent a more diverse range of perspectives. This paper will examine examples of museums that have successfully started decolonising their spaces through exhibitions on matriarchal societies and/or the representation of women in the Ancient World, with a focus on the American University of Beirut Archaeological Museum.
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