Introduction to the Project and the Volume Enacting a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation

Álvarez, Sonia E.

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“…Translation is not limited to text, but also includes ideas and practices and reflects the coloniality of power relations. Feminist research therefore must consider "the unequal traveling and translation of feminist practices, theories and texts, and their reception" (Klahn 2014, 43; see also Alvarez 2014). Taking into account the politics of translation, throughout the research I remained reflexive of my positionality as a queer, white, female, and foreign researcher from a British university and of the reality that "the practice of privileged persons speaking for or on behalf of less privileged persons has actually resulted in many cases in increasing or reinforcing the oppression of the group spoken for" (Alcoff 1991, 7).…”

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A matrix of violences: the political economy of violences against Mayan women in Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Hartviksen

2021

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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Following the signing of Guatemala's 1996 Peace Accords, which brought an end to 36 years of conflict culminating in a genocide against Mayan communities, violences have persisted at alarming rates. Research has noted a high number of reports of violences against women and femicide, highlighting legal battles and challenges to address this issue. This article aims to make an empirical contribution, in that it explores the political economic dimensions of violences against women in predominantly Maya Q'eqchi' communities in Guatemala's development corridor, the Northern Transversal Strip region. Furthermore, the article emphasizes how women community leaders have linked violences against women in the contemporary context to the historical gendered violences of colonialism and armed conflict, as well the postwar extractivist development model and related ecological violences, particularly in relation to palm oil. Drawing on qualitative research and expanding on "continuum" theoretical approaches, the article concludes by suggesting that violences against women in postwar Guatemala can be understood as existing within an intersectional matrix, illustrating the dynamics of continuity and change. Violences against women are shaped by political, economic, historical, and social factors, which in turn shape how women organize to resist and address the violences against them in the Northern Transversal Strip region.

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Section: A Note On Methodology and Site Selectionmentioning

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A matrix of violences: the political economy of violences against Mayan women in Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip

Hartviksen

2021

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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“…Translocations and crossroads are a second essential aspect of Lucia's definition of resistance. Her epistemology thus builds on the ‘multidirectional crossing and movements’ between localities, cultures and temporalities (what I here refer to as ‘translocation’) and on the crossroads that have emerged through them (Alvarez, 2014). Lucia evokes two main episodes of translocation and crossroads: the African mother brought to the Americas against her will during the colonial period; and her family who left the Northeast region of Brazil to live in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.…”

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EMBODIED URBANIZATIONS AND AMEFRICAN FUTURITIES: Lucia's Epistemology

Veillette

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article, I examine the definition of resistance given by a favela woman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—Lucia Cabral—and its epistemological potential for urban theory. From a feminist, postcolonial and decolonial point of view, I argue that Lucia's definition of resistance entails an insightful framework to understand urban transformations, because she shifts the question of ‘what they are’ to ‘where they stream from’. I build on my situated position and inter‐relationality with Lucia to argue that, first, urban transformations, which I here refer to as forms of urbanization, can and often do come from the favela; secondly, that these forms of urbanization derive from situated and translocated‐ing Amefrican epistemologies; and thirdly, that women's bodies constitute, in many cases, the very basis of urban futurities in the favelas. I look into embodied forms of urbanization to conclude that it is possible to see, feel, sense and nurture forms of future‐thinking and ‐building that I here call Amefrican futurities, for they emerge from the specific subjectivities and praxis of women living in the favelas.

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