Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics: Border Thinking and Vulnerability as a Knowing Otherwise
Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics: Border Thinking and Vulnerability as a Knowing Otherwise
Decolonial thinking has introduced border thinking as an epistemological position that contributes to a shift in the forms of knowing in which the world is thought from the concrete incarnated experiences of colonial difference and the wounds left. In this chapter, Argentinean feminist philosopher Maria Lugones’ (1992) interpretation of Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands foregrounds its main argument: border thinking as an embodied consciousness in which dualities and vulnerability are central for a decolonisation of how we think about the geo and body politics of knowledge, coloniality, political economy and of course, gender in International Relations and Global Politics.
Keywords: border thinking, vulnerability, coloniality, Maria Lugones, Gloria Anzaldua
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