Pandemia es toda aquella enfermedad que se extiende a lo largo de varios continentes o alrededor del mundo. La palabra pandemia encuentra sus raíces en el griego: el elemento pan hace referencia a la totalidad, mientras que dem alude al pueblo. El desglose de este término permite pensar las pandemias como flujos dinámicos y territoriales. La pandemia es también la metáfora idónea para entender el avance de patrones de poder que se afianzan con las narrativas de la modernidad, el capitalismo, el patriarcado y la colonialidad. Las pandemias cargan consigo tanto la definición como la metáfora. O al menos esa es una cualidad remarcable de las pandemias del VIH/sida y del COVID-19.
In this chapter, we engage some of our intimate understandings of decolonial thought. We reflect on aspects of our personal intellectual journeys and epistemic relationships with coloniality. Our aim is to be transparent with the reader about the ‘places we come from’ and to bring our multiple voices and perspectives underlying the different colonial realities we all live as researchers from the ‘global’ South. Our perspectives are therefore an outcome of thinking through decoloniality. We acknowledge that our individual and unique trajectories have shaped how we understand coloniality and how we subsequently attempt to decolonise our areas of research and ourselves, with the help of overlapping concepts (in feminist political ecology) of subjectivity, the body, and the other. Our aim is to expose our different interpretations as a necessary step to engaging, thinking about, and articulating thoughts on decoloniality in FPE research.
In this chapter, we set out the book’s engagements with feminist political ecology (FPE) theory and practice. We first position the book in relation to FPE discussions underlying how the field is evolving as an open-ended set of discourses responding to the different crises and disruptions caused by the last years of environmental, climate, health, economic and political crises. We then briefly explain how the book was shaped through four years of the relationships and knowledge co-production within the Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and Community Innovative Training Network (WEGO-ITN), followed by a discussion on the main themes emerging in the book chapters and a finishing with a section indicating where the contributors of the book are heading next. The book is rooted in the networks and journeys between activism, academia and policy arenas reflecting on the many situated conversations and stories within FPE.
In this chapter, the authors reflect on meanings of care through a conversation with Khayaat Fakier and Wendy Harcourt recorded in March 2022. The cross generational conversation weaves around the issue of care in relation to ethics, intersectional justice, feminism and environmental activism. We ask Khayaat and Wendy to share their perspectives on care, reflecting on the feminist roots of their activism, teaching and research.
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