2020
DOI: 10.1017/hyp.2020.19
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Abstract: According to Chandra Mohanty, there is no apolitical academy; academic and scholarly practices are in themselves political, insofar as they are inscribed in power and validation relations, which answer to and have effects upon the patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist structures to which they belong. In the case of philosophical writing, this means that the forms that regulate writing, that is, what determines how one must write in different contexts, are expressive of the power structures within philosophical… Show more

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“…Acevedo-Zapata, writing from Colombia and the “political South,” offers letter-writing as a way of subverting the epistemological norms of knowledge-production of the Western academy, often emanating from and situated in the “political North.” Acevedo-Zapata argues that letter-writing, in Spanish to other Spanish speakers, expands practices of doing philosophy and ought to be considered a form of decolonial feminist praxis, a way of doing decolonial feminist philosophy. As she explains, “a decolonial feminist praxis starts by recognizing there is necessarily a place of enunciation for authors in philosophy, and that it cannot be neutral, objective, or universal” (2020, p. 413). By emphasizing the particularity of the subjectivities of those exchanging letters, letter-writing as genre subverts relations ordered by coloniality.…”
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“…Acevedo-Zapata, writing from Colombia and the “political South,” offers letter-writing as a way of subverting the epistemological norms of knowledge-production of the Western academy, often emanating from and situated in the “political North.” Acevedo-Zapata argues that letter-writing, in Spanish to other Spanish speakers, expands practices of doing philosophy and ought to be considered a form of decolonial feminist praxis, a way of doing decolonial feminist philosophy. As she explains, “a decolonial feminist praxis starts by recognizing there is necessarily a place of enunciation for authors in philosophy, and that it cannot be neutral, objective, or universal” (2020, p. 413). By emphasizing the particularity of the subjectivities of those exchanging letters, letter-writing as genre subverts relations ordered by coloniality.…”
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confidence: 99%