Sara C Motta
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 795508 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara C Motta |
| NOMBRES | Sara C |
| APELLIDO | Motta |
| FIRMA | MOTTA S C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9643-0368 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 190 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Decolonizing and feminizing citizenship otherwise
Grandmother genealogies
As a collective of inter-cultural women moving in but not of, and against and beyond the modern/colonial (neoliberalised) university we (t)race generative pedagogical experiences of worldmaking cosmopolitics and their (im)possibilities within the University and Politics Disciplinarity. We do this not to redeem or reimagine but to contribute to an enfleshed feminised and racialised undercommons for whom indigenist-decolonial feminist pedagogical-p…
Re-reading LAP's Genealogy with Feminist Eyes
History
The epistemological intimacies of the urban frontier
In this article I (t)race the (onto)epistemological intimacies of the urban frontier through their attempted erasure and annihilation of the Bla(c)k, Indigenous and racialised (m)other and her rendition to non-being and non-belonging in the city of Mulubinba-Newcastle on the unceeded lands of the Worimi and Awabakal peoples in so called Australia and in relation to the complex lineages and herstories of exile, displacement, dispossession and desi…
Decolonising the 'autonomy of affect' in volunteer tourism encounters
Promotion of volunteer tourism is couched within notions of 'giving back', drawing on affective sentiments of 'care', 'compassion' and 'empathy', reinforced by neo-colonial and neoliberal notions of developmental aid. It is not surprising then, that scholars are turning to theories of affect to make sense of the embodied, emotional aspects of the volunteering experience. We build on this emerging research trajectory by arguing that in drawing att…
Decolonising (critical) social theory
Decolonial/anti-colonial Black, Indigenous and Mestiza feminist movements and scholar-activists foreground how the oft-touted apocalypse that the Covid-19 pandemic heralds is not new, nor does it signify the great rupture into chaos that those from within modernity-coloniality often claim it to be. Rather Covid-19 is preceded by and will be out-lived by the apocalyptic anti-life onto-epistemological logics that are foundational to the (re)product…
Decolonizing Our Feminist/ized Revolutions
An initial mapping of the decolonial feminisms emergent in Buenaventura and Cali, Southwest Colombia, in the Afro-Colombian and indigenous political Escuela de Mariposas de Alas Nuevas and Círculo de Hombres, Cali, shows that they move within and beyond a politics and epistemology of representation in a return to the enfleshed as territories of transformatory wisdoms and the embrace of ancestrality and feminist spirituality. Un mapeo inicial de l…
The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies
This chapter discusses the politics of, by and through hope. Unanticipated global changes have triggered an intensified search for hope, which has become constructed as a response to and resource to draw on in uncertain circumstances. Through its promise of a better future, hope – as a basic human desire – has become a tool deployable for political ends. This chapter investigates how hope can be used not only to facilitate transformations but als…
Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies
F*** professionalism
Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies
Reoccupying the Political
Enfleshing temporal insurgencies and decolonial times
Time and temporality often remain the unthought in our spaces, moments, and movements of radical political imagination and practice. In this contribution, we aim to open a dialogue between current queer/feminist/black/decolonial scholarship on time, and the praxis of feminist movements and women in movement in Cali, Colombia. We hope to nurture, in this way, a systematization of the role of decolonial times and insurgent temporalities in our anti…
Pedagogies of care, care-full epistemological practice and ‘other’ caring subjectivities in enabling education
This article explores and conceptualises the emergent and historic presence of a feminised pedagogical praxis in Australian Enabling (university access) programs. Analysing a participatory project at a regional university that sought to map these pedagogies, it specifically aims to visibilise the complexities of careful pedagogical practices which challenge deficit and assimilationist renditions of equity and inclusion, and which foster the possi…
Liminal Subjects
Through the stories of women in movement in the Americas, Europe and Australasia, this book explores a decolonising and feminised politics of liberation which is being weaved through the words and worlds of black, colonised and subaltern women. These stories demonstrate the complex and multiple forms of critique as practice that are being developed by women in movement in multiple sites of the Global South. Written through story, prose, poetry, a…
The marketised university and the politics of motherhood
In this paper, we offer a critique of neoliberal power from the perspective of the gendered, sexualised, raced and classed politics of motherhood in English universities. By using dialogical auto-ethnographic methods to examine our own past experiences as full-time employed mother–academics, we demonstrate how feminist academic praxis can not only help make the gendered workings of neoliberal power more visible, but also enable us to nurture and …
Emancipation in Latin America
Latin American social movements are reinventing emancipatory politics, in which those invisibilised and excluded by capitalist-coloniality are emerging as the emancipatory subjects of our times. Rather than a method of learning, pedagogy is understood as a radical educational project of subaltern transformation and politics. Emancipatory pedagogical praxis occurs in multiple spatialities and embraces multiple knowledges and subaltern subjects. Th…
Introduction to the Special Section
Emancipation’ remains marginal as a theme within Latin American studies (LAS) with the focus on questions of institutional politics, democracy, democratization, citizenship and development. Yet for the past two decades social movements have been articulating new imaginaries, ideas and practices beyond traditionally conceived frameworks of social change. They are anticipating alternative arrangements towards a dignified collective life. In these a…
Latin America as political science's other
This article develops a decolonising critique of contemporary Latin American focused Political Science (LAPS) demonstrating the complicity of its politics of knowledge in the reproduction of the logic and rationalities of coloniality. These logics and rationalities are premised upon the dehumanisation of the raced and gendered other who is denied rationality, agency and political subjectivity. I demonstrate the monological and dehumanising episte…
Reoccupying the political
The papers gathered in this collection emerged from a symposium concerned with the question of the political as subject, practice and epistemology. In part, the symposium evolved from a recognition of the political struggles across the globe that are reoccupying the political. Examples of these re-occupations include (but are not restricted to) Occupy in the USA, los Indignados in Spain and the Movimento sem Terra in Brazil (Landless Workers Move…
Decolonising Critique
Reinventing Revolutionary Subjects in Venezuela
This article challenges orthodox Marxistconceptualisations of the revolutionary subject by buildingon the autonomist Marxist feminist tradition now inits fourth decade. It argues that by expanding our conceptualisationof capitalist relations to include the sphereof social reproduction, the creation of a gendered divisionof labour and the construction of alienated subjectivitieswe open a window on the multiple subjects that areat the heart of cont…
Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism in Latin America
In Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism: The Role of Radical Education, Motta and Cole explore the role of the politics of knowledge and pedagogy in the reinvention of socialism for the twenty-first century. Through a critical analysis of Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela they deconstruct the mechanisms of neoliberal control as an epistemological project of monologue, closure, and violence against all 'others'. The authors develop an affirmat…
Education and Social Change in Latin America
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
An autonomist Marxist feminist analysis of the narratives of three women participants in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution-women linked by their participation in the urban land committees of La Vega, a Caracas shantytown-stresses the fundamental significance of women's struggles in this revolutionary process. By focusing on the realities of women in movement we can begin to grasp the complexity of the feminized political subjectivities being form…
Decolonising the 'autonomy of affect' in volunteer tourism encounters
Promotion of volunteer tourism is couched within notions of 'giving back', drawing on affective sentiments of 'care', 'compassion' and 'empathy', reinforced by neo-colonial and neoliberal notions of developmental aid. It is not surprising then, that scholars are turning to theories of affect to make sense of the embodied, emotional aspects of the volunteering experience. We build on this emerging research trajectory by arguing that in drawing att…
The marketised university and the politics of motherhood
In this paper, we offer a critique of neoliberal power from the perspective of the gendered, sexualised, raced and classed politics of motherhood in English universities. By using dialogical auto-ethnographic methods to examine our own past experiences as full-time employed mother–academics, we demonstrate how feminist academic praxis can not only help make the gendered workings of neoliberal power more visible, but also enable us to nurture and …
The Chilean Socialist Party (PSCh)
Adopting a neo-Gramscian framework, I argue that the Chilean Socialist Party (PSCh), as part of the governing Concertación coalition, has played a key role in constructing consent and disarticulating dissent to neo-liberal hegemony in Chile. This is the result of its co-optation into the neo-liberal historic bloc formed during the Pinochet dictatorship, of which the Concertación is the democratic political face. This process occurs in relation to…
Emancipation in Latin America
Latin American social movements are reinventing emancipatory politics, in which those invisibilised and excluded by capitalist-coloniality are emerging as the emancipatory subjects of our times. Rather than a method of learning, pedagogy is understood as a radical educational project of subaltern transformation and politics. Emancipatory pedagogical praxis occurs in multiple spatialities and embraces multiple knowledges and subaltern subjects. Th…
Teaching Global and Social Justice as Transgressive Spaces of Possibility
In this article I reflect on introducing critical pedagogy into social justice teaching in an elite UK university as part of the Nottingham Critical Pedagogy Project. I de‐essentialise Freire's conceptualisation of the human subject and her desire for transcendence with the introduction of Deleuze and Guattari's politics of desire. This enables an adaption of critical pedagogy from its original context of popular politics to the individualised el…
Old Tools and New Movements in Latin America
This article argues that social democratic and orthodox Marxist conceptualizations of politics are unable to "engage in solidarity" with many new forms of Latin American popular politics. Such movements challenge the politics of representation, the market economy, and the state form by reinventing territorialized experiments in self-government, which politicize place, subjectivities, and social relations. Developing a critique of these frameworks…
The Bolivarian Process in Venezuela
The ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez has reignited debate in Latin America and internationally on the questions of socialism and revolution. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different revolutionary traditions and introduces their reflections on class-struggle, the state, imperialism, counter-power, revolutionary parties, community and communes, workplaces, economy, politics, society, culture, race, g…
Enfleshing temporal insurgencies and decolonial times
Time and temporality often remain the unthought in our spaces, moments, and movements of radical political imagination and practice. In this contribution, we aim to open a dialogue between current queer/feminist/black/decolonial scholarship on time, and the praxis of feminist movements and women in movement in Cali, Colombia. We hope to nurture, in this way, a systematization of the role of decolonial times and insurgent temporalities in our anti…
Reinventing the Lefts in Latin America
The Venezuelan popular educator and activist Joel Linares tells us, in Pablo Navarrete’s 2009 film Inside the Revolution, that “one morning in Guarenas, behind the mountains [on the outskirts of Caracas], at 5 a.m. on February 27, 1989, a woman tried to get on the bus. When she refused to pay the new bus fare, the driver pushed her. When the driver pushed her, that was the beginning of everything. . . . The other passengers . . . got up from thei…
Decolonizing Our Feminist/ized Revolutions
An initial mapping of the decolonial feminisms emergent in Buenaventura and Cali, Southwest Colombia, in the Afro-Colombian and indigenous political Escuela de Mariposas de Alas Nuevas and Círculo de Hombres, Cali, shows that they move within and beyond a politics and epistemology of representation in a return to the enfleshed as territories of transformatory wisdoms and the embrace of ancestrality and feminist spirituality. Un mapeo inicial de l…
Re-articulating Dissent
This article takes the 2010 electoral defeats of the Chilean Concertación and British New Labour governments as a point of departure to analyse the crisis of representation in Third Way politics and how this crisis has allowed the right to articulate a successful project of subaltern dissent. The article develops a critical reading of Gramsci through an engagement with Spivak to analyse the complex and contested relations of representation throug…
Populism's Achilles' Heel
Minimalist definitions of populism, which are dominant in "Western" analysis, conceptualize Chavismo as a form of illiberal populism A methodological, theoretical, and empirical critique of the applicability of the term "populism" to contemporary Venezuelan politics, focused on the lived experiences of the popular classes in communal councils and urban land committees, reveals that its use masks an innovative and contradictory political process a…
Utopias Re-Imagined
This article is a reply to Panizza's recent article, ‘Unarmed Utopia Revisited: The Resurgence of Left-of-Centre Politics in Latin America’. It contests the claims that there are no alternatives to market economies and liberal democracy in contemporary Latin America. It does this by disentangling the conceptual assumptions that underlie the analysis presented, which, it argues, construct a loaded dice that makes the conclusions of the arguments s…
Latin America as political science's other
This article develops a decolonising critique of contemporary Latin American focused Political Science (LAPS) demonstrating the complicity of its politics of knowledge in the reproduction of the logic and rationalities of coloniality. These logics and rationalities are premised upon the dehumanisation of the raced and gendered other who is denied rationality, agency and political subjectivity. I demonstrate the monological and dehumanising episte…
The epistemological intimacies of the urban frontier
In this article I (t)race the (onto)epistemological intimacies of the urban frontier through their attempted erasure and annihilation of the Bla(c)k, Indigenous and racialised (m)other and her rendition to non-being and non-belonging in the city of Mulubinba-Newcastle on the unceeded lands of the Worimi and Awabakal peoples in so called Australia and in relation to the complex lineages and herstories of exile, displacement, dispossession and desi…
Neither pragmatic adaptation nor misguided accommodation
This article contests prevailing academic conceptions of the modernisation of parliamentary Left parties. According to these accounts, 'modernisation' is viewed either as a pragmatic adaptation to international socioeconomic change, or as a misguided accommodation of ascendant neoliberal values, norms and practices. In both of these accounts, Left parties are perceived as passively reacting to the structures that contextualise their actions. Deve…
F*** professionalism
Liminal Subjects
Through the stories of women in movement in the Americas, Europe and Australasia, this book explores a decolonising and feminised politics of liberation which is being weaved through the words and worlds of black, colonised and subaltern women. These stories demonstrate the complex and multiple forms of critique as practice that are being developed by women in movement in multiple sites of the Global South. Written through story, prose, poetry, a…
Reoccupying the political
The papers gathered in this collection emerged from a symposium concerned with the question of the political as subject, practice and epistemology. In part, the symposium evolved from a recognition of the political struggles across the globe that are reoccupying the political. Examples of these re-occupations include (but are not restricted to) Occupy in the USA, los Indignados in Spain and the Movimento sem Terra in Brazil (Landless Workers Move…
New Ways of Making and Living Politics
This article develops a critique of liberal and social democratic conceptualisations of the political that seek to analyse contemporary social movements in Latin America, arguing that they often silence, misinterpret and/or de-legitimise new ways of living and making politics in the region. It develops an alternative conceptualisation, based upon the insights of post-structuralism and heterodox Marxism, which offers the analytic means to engage m…
Grandmother genealogies
As a collective of inter-cultural women moving in but not of, and against and beyond the modern/colonial (neoliberalised) university we (t)race generative pedagogical experiences of worldmaking cosmopolitics and their (im)possibilities within the University and Politics Disciplinarity. We do this not to redeem or reimagine but to contribute to an enfleshed feminised and racialised undercommons for whom indigenist-decolonial feminist pedagogical-p…
Decolonising (critical) social theory
Decolonial/anti-colonial Black, Indigenous and Mestiza feminist movements and scholar-activists foreground how the oft-touted apocalypse that the Covid-19 pandemic heralds is not new, nor does it signify the great rupture into chaos that those from within modernity-coloniality often claim it to be. Rather Covid-19 is preceded by and will be out-lived by the apocalyptic anti-life onto-epistemological logics that are foundational to the (re)product…
Introduction to the Special Section
Emancipation’ remains marginal as a theme within Latin American studies (LAS) with the focus on questions of institutional politics, democracy, democratization, citizenship and development. Yet for the past two decades social movements have been articulating new imaginaries, ideas and practices beyond traditionally conceived frameworks of social change. They are anticipating alternative arrangements towards a dignified collective life. In these a…
Reinventing Revolutionary Subjects in Venezuela
This article challenges orthodox Marxistconceptualisations of the revolutionary subject by buildingon the autonomist Marxist feminist tradition now inits fourth decade. It argues that by expanding our conceptualisationof capitalist relations to include the sphereof social reproduction, the creation of a gendered divisionof labour and the construction of alienated subjectivitieswe open a window on the multiple subjects that areat the heart of cont…
Utopias Re-Imagined
This article is a reply to Panizza's recent article, ‘Unarmed Utopia Revisited: The Resurgence of Left-of-Centre Politics in Latin America’. It contests the claims that there are no alternatives to market economies and liberal democracy in contemporary Latin America. It does this by disentangling the conceptual assumptions that underlie the analysis presented, which, it argues, construct a loaded dice that makes the conclusions of the arguments s…
The Chilean Socialist Party (PSCh)
Adopting a neo-Gramscian framework, I argue that the Chilean Socialist Party (PSCh), as part of the governing Concertación coalition, has played a key role in constructing consent and disarticulating dissent to neo-liberal hegemony in Chile. This is the result of its co-optation into the neo-liberal historic bloc formed during the Pinochet dictatorship, of which the Concertación is the democratic political face. This process occurs in relation to…
Neither pragmatic adaptation nor misguided accommodation
This article contests prevailing academic conceptions of the modernisation of parliamentary Left parties. According to these accounts, 'modernisation' is viewed either as a pragmatic adaptation to international socioeconomic change, or as a misguided accommodation of ascendant neoliberal values, norms and practices. In both of these accounts, Left parties are perceived as passively reacting to the structures that contextualise their actions. Deve…
New Ways of Making and Living Politics
This article develops a critique of liberal and social democratic conceptualisations of the political that seek to analyse contemporary social movements in Latin America, arguing that they often silence, misinterpret and/or de-legitimise new ways of living and making politics in the region. It develops an alternative conceptualisation, based upon the insights of post-structuralism and heterodox Marxism, which offers the analytic means to engage m…
Old Tools and New Movements in Latin America
This article argues that social democratic and orthodox Marxist conceptualizations of politics are unable to "engage in solidarity" with many new forms of Latin American popular politics. Such movements challenge the politics of representation, the market economy, and the state form by reinventing territorialized experiments in self-government, which politicize place, subjectivities, and social relations. Developing a critique of these frameworks…
Social Movements in the Global South
Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This boo
The Bolivarian Process in Venezuela
The ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez has reignited debate in Latin America and internationally on the questions of socialism and revolution. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different revolutionary traditions and introduces their reflections on class-struggle, the state, imperialism, counter-power, revolutionary parties, community and communes, workplaces, economy, politics, society, culture, race, g…
Populism's Achilles' Heel
Minimalist definitions of populism, which are dominant in "Western" analysis, conceptualize Chavismo as a form of illiberal populism A methodological, theoretical, and empirical critique of the applicability of the term "populism" to contemporary Venezuelan politics, focused on the lived experiences of the popular classes in communal councils and urban land committees, reveals that its use masks an innovative and contradictory political process a…
Education and Social Change in Latin America
Education and Social Change in Latin America
Teaching Global and Social Justice as Transgressive Spaces of Possibility
In this article I reflect on introducing critical pedagogy into social justice teaching in an elite UK university as part of the Nottingham Critical Pedagogy Project. I de‐essentialise Freire's conceptualisation of the human subject and her desire for transcendence with the introduction of Deleuze and Guattari's politics of desire. This enables an adaption of critical pedagogy from its original context of popular politics to the individualised el…
Re-articulating Dissent
This article takes the 2010 electoral defeats of the Chilean Concertación and British New Labour governments as a point of departure to analyse the crisis of representation in Third Way politics and how this crisis has allowed the right to articulate a successful project of subaltern dissent. The article develops a critical reading of Gramsci through an engagement with Spivak to analyse the complex and contested relations of representation throug…
Testimonials
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
An autonomist Marxist feminist analysis of the narratives of three women participants in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution-women linked by their participation in the urban land committees of La Vega, a Caracas shantytown-stresses the fundamental significance of women's struggles in this revolutionary process. By focusing on the realities of women in movement we can begin to grasp the complexity of the feminized political subjectivities being form…
Reinventing the Lefts in Latin America
The Venezuelan popular educator and activist Joel Linares tells us, in Pablo Navarrete’s 2009 film Inside the Revolution, that “one morning in Guarenas, behind the mountains [on the outskirts of Caracas], at 5 a.m. on February 27, 1989, a woman tried to get on the bus. When she refused to pay the new bus fare, the driver pushed her. When the driver pushed her, that was the beginning of everything. . . . The other passengers . . . got up from thei…
Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism in Latin America
In Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism: The Role of Radical Education, Motta and Cole explore the role of the politics of knowledge and pedagogy in the reinvention of socialism for the twenty-first century. Through a critical analysis of Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela they deconstruct the mechanisms of neoliberal control as an epistemological project of monologue, closure, and violence against all 'others'. The authors develop an affirmat…
Decolonising Critique
Reinventing Revolutionary Subjects in Venezuela
This article challenges orthodox Marxistconceptualisations of the revolutionary subject by buildingon the autonomist Marxist feminist tradition now inits fourth decade. It argues that by expanding our conceptualisationof capitalist relations to include the sphereof social reproduction, the creation of a gendered divisionof labour and the construction of alienated subjectivitieswe open a window on the multiple subjects that areat the heart of cont…
The marketised university and the politics of motherhood
In this paper, we offer a critique of neoliberal power from the perspective of the gendered, sexualised, raced and classed politics of motherhood in English universities. By using dialogical auto-ethnographic methods to examine our own past experiences as full-time employed mother–academics, we demonstrate how feminist academic praxis can not only help make the gendered workings of neoliberal power more visible, but also enable us to nurture and …
Emancipation in Latin America
Latin American social movements are reinventing emancipatory politics, in which those invisibilised and excluded by capitalist-coloniality are emerging as the emancipatory subjects of our times. Rather than a method of learning, pedagogy is understood as a radical educational project of subaltern transformation and politics. Emancipatory pedagogical praxis occurs in multiple spatialities and embraces multiple knowledges and subaltern subjects. Th…
Introduction to the Special Section
Emancipation’ remains marginal as a theme within Latin American studies (LAS) with the focus on questions of institutional politics, democracy, democratization, citizenship and development. Yet for the past two decades social movements have been articulating new imaginaries, ideas and practices beyond traditionally conceived frameworks of social change. They are anticipating alternative arrangements towards a dignified collective life. In these a…
Latin America as political science's other
This article develops a decolonising critique of contemporary Latin American focused Political Science (LAPS) demonstrating the complicity of its politics of knowledge in the reproduction of the logic and rationalities of coloniality. These logics and rationalities are premised upon the dehumanisation of the raced and gendered other who is denied rationality, agency and political subjectivity. I demonstrate the monological and dehumanising episte…
Reoccupying the political
The papers gathered in this collection emerged from a symposium concerned with the question of the political as subject, practice and epistemology. In part, the symposium evolved from a recognition of the political struggles across the globe that are reoccupying the political. Examples of these re-occupations include (but are not restricted to) Occupy in the USA, los Indignados in Spain and the Movimento sem Terra in Brazil (Landless Workers Move…
Pedagogies of care, care-full epistemological practice and ‘other’ caring subjectivities in enabling education
This article explores and conceptualises the emergent and historic presence of a feminised pedagogical praxis in Australian Enabling (university access) programs. Analysing a participatory project at a regional university that sought to map these pedagogies, it specifically aims to visibilise the complexities of careful pedagogical practices which challenge deficit and assimilationist renditions of equity and inclusion, and which foster the possi…
Liminal Subjects
Through the stories of women in movement in the Americas, Europe and Australasia, this book explores a decolonising and feminised politics of liberation which is being weaved through the words and worlds of black, colonised and subaltern women. These stories demonstrate the complex and multiple forms of critique as practice that are being developed by women in movement in multiple sites of the Global South. Written through story, prose, poetry, a…
Political science (32 obras) · Sociology (29 obras) · Politics (24 obras) · Law (23 obras) · Gender Studies (17 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Epistemology (12 obras) · Politics and Society in Latin America (12 obras) · Gender Studies (11 obras) · Latin Americans (10 obras)