Mariana Ortega
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariana Ortega |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariana |
| FAMILY NAME | Ortega |
| SIGNATURE | ORTEGA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philosophy DepartmentPennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania 16802 |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7709-8910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad
Agency in a Plural Register: Pitts Reading Lugones Reading Anzaldúa
En primera persona: Ciudadanías comunicacionales en la experiencia de la FM Comunitaria La Voz Indígena
La FM Comunitaria La Voz Indígena es una radio pluriétnica, integrada por comunicadores de los pueblos wichi, guaraní, toba qom y chorote. Esta experiencia, ubicada en Tartagal (norte de la provincia de Salta) da cuenta de las complejas relaciones que los pueblos originarios entablan con el Estado. La emergencia de la comunicación comunitaria e indígena significó una profunda transformación en la vida de este colectivo. Construida para revertir l…
In-Between-Worlds and Re-membering: Latina Feminist Phenomenology and the Existential Analytic of Dasein
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives
Territorios que hablan. Comunicación y resistencias en el norte de Argentina
Los pueblos originarios del norte de Salta se enfrentan cotidianamente a problemáticas sociales y ambientales derivadas de históricos procesos extractivistas. La pobreza, la desnutrición, el racismo y despojo territorial son condiciones que describen el contexto de vida de las poblaciones originarias. Las políticas y medidas adoptadas por el gobierno de Mauricio Macri a favor de la expansión de la frontera agropecuaria y del crecimiento de la pr…
Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance
Queer Autoarte: A Differential Aesthesis of the Limen
Spectral Perception and Ghostly Subjectivity at the Colonial Gender/Race/Sex Nexus
This article calls for an examination of the spectral operations of the perceptual architecture of colonization in conjunction with the enactment of a decolonial feminism as proposed by María Lugones. The first section discusses both the notion of ghostly subjectivity from Lugones's early work as well as the echoes of this notion in her recent work on the coloniality of gender that emphasizes the gender/race/sex nexus. Subsequently, through a pho…
Bodies of Color, Bodies of Sorrow: On Resistant Sorrow, Aesthetic Unsettlement, and Becoming-With
This article discusses sorrow in terms of its resistant possibilities. It describes bodies of color as ontological sites of sorrow in the context of racism and xenophobia. This sorrow, however, does not condemn these bodies to hopelessness and erasure. Rather, it may constitute a rupture with a present that fails to acknowledge racist and xenophobic practices. In addition, it connects sorrow to the kind of melancholia that bodies of color experie…
Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics
To gather together is an act of generosity, to identify and to connect pieces from here and there in order to give them meaning and structure so as to point to some linkage, configuration or coherence—but to do so without forgetting disparity, heterogeneity, and incoherence. In his deeply important work, Black is Beautiful, A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics, Paul C. Taylor engages in this careful act of gathering together, what, following Stuart H…
Decolonial Woes and Practices of Un-knowing
Decolonial philosophy aims at destabilizing and critiquing what Walter Mignolo has called Eurocentric macronarratives of coloniality. However, the very practices of decolonial thinkers in the U.S. academy can themselves replicate colonial impulses and erasures. In this article I discuss “decolonial woes,” or a certain affliction that arises when even resistant practices are connected to what I term “practices of un-knowing,” which distort and neg…
Speaking in Resistant Tongues: Latina Feminism, Embodied Knowledge, and Transformation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Latina Feminism, Experience and the Self
The following paper discusses Latina feminist debates on selfhood and identity. Since work by Latina feminists is not widely recognized or studied within the discipline of philosophy, the aim of the first section of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to Chicana feminism as it has been and continues to be pivotal in the development of Latina feminism. Included in this section is an introduction to the work of celebrated Chicana theorist…
Photographic Representation of Racialized Bodies
This paper examines photographic representations of the racialized body, more specifically, photographic representation of Afro-Mexicans, a group that has been previously made invisible from Mexican national identity but that has reemerged as the "Third Root of Mexico." The question guiding the discussion is whether such racialized bodies can be represented in such a way that does not perpetuate racist, colonialist desires and impulses. First, I …
Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader
Being Lovingly, Knowingly Ignorant: White Feminism and Women of Color
The aim of this essay is to analyze the notion of “loving, knowing ignorance,” a type of “arrogant perception” that produces ignorance about women of color and their work at the same time that it proclaims to have both knowledge about and loving perception toward them. The first part discusses Marilyn Frye's accounts of “arrogant” as well as of “loving” perception and presents an explanation of “loving, knowing ignorance.” The second part discuss…
Phenomenological Encuentros: Existential Phenomenology and Latin American & U.S. Latina Feminism
Heideggerian existential phenomenology remains largely ignored by Latin American feminists due to their preference for more Marxist and Sartrean philosophies. But its influence on Latin American feminism can be felt through the work of thinkers such as Beauvoir and Irigaray, who have had a great impact on Latin American feminists' involvement in political movements and development of theories. The aim of this essay is to discuss ways in which Lat…
Being Lovingly, Knowingly Ignorant: White Feminism and Women of Color
The aim of this essay is to analyze the notion of “loving, knowing ignorance,” a type of “arrogant perception” that produces ignorance about women of color and their work at the same time that it proclaims to have both knowledge about and loving perception toward them. The first part discusses Marilyn Frye's accounts of “arrogant” as well as of “loving” perception and presents an explanation of “loving, knowing ignorance.” The second part discuss…
This Thin Edge of Barbwire: ” Selves from the Land in the Middle
Exiled space, in-between space: Existential spatiality in Ana Mendieta'sSiluetasSeries
Existential space is lived space, space permeated by our raced, gendered selves. It is representative of our very existence. The purpose of this essay is to explore the intersection between this lived space and art by analyzing the work of the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta and showing how her Siluetas Series discloses a space of exile. The first section discusses existential spatiality as explained by the phenomenologists Heidegger and Watsuji a…
New Mestizas,? ??World?-Travelers,? and ? Dasein: Phenomenology and the Multi-Voiced, Multi-Cultural Self
New Mestizas,” “World'Travelers,” and “Dasein”: Phenomenology and the Multi-Voiced, Multi-Cultural Self
The aim of this essay is to carry out an analysis of the multi-voiced, multi-cultural self discussed by Latina feminists in light of a Heideggerian phenomenological account of persons or “Existential Analytic.” In so doing, it (a) points out similarities as well as differences between the Heideggerian description of the self and Latina feminists' phenomenological accounts of self, and (b) critically assesses María Lugones's important notion of “w…
Being Lovingly, Knowingly Ignorant: White Feminism and Women of Color
The aim of this essay is to analyze the notion of “loving, knowing ignorance,” a type of “arrogant perception” that produces ignorance about women of color and their work at the same time that it proclaims to have both knowledge about and loving perception toward them. The first part discusses Marilyn Frye's accounts of “arrogant” as well as of “loving” perception and presents an explanation of “loving, knowing ignorance.” The second part discuss…
New Mestizas,” “World'Travelers,” and “Dasein”: Phenomenology and the Multi-Voiced, Multi-Cultural Self
The aim of this essay is to carry out an analysis of the multi-voiced, multi-cultural self discussed by Latina feminists in light of a Heideggerian phenomenological account of persons or “Existential Analytic.” In so doing, it (a) points out similarities as well as differences between the Heideggerian description of the self and Latina feminists' phenomenological accounts of self, and (b) critically assesses María Lugones's important notion of “w…
Latina Feminism, Experience and the Self
The following paper discusses Latina feminist debates on selfhood and identity. Since work by Latina feminists is not widely recognized or studied within the discipline of philosophy, the aim of the first section of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to Chicana feminism as it has been and continues to be pivotal in the development of Latina feminism. Included in this section is an introduction to the work of celebrated Chicana theorist…
Exiled space, in-between space: Existential spatiality in Ana Mendieta'sSiluetasSeries
Existential space is lived space, space permeated by our raced, gendered selves. It is representative of our very existence. The purpose of this essay is to explore the intersection between this lived space and art by analyzing the work of the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta and showing how her Siluetas Series discloses a space of exile. The first section discusses existential spatiality as explained by the phenomenologists Heidegger and Watsuji a…
Speaking in Resistant Tongues: Latina Feminism, Embodied Knowledge, and Transformation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Phenomenological Encuentros: Existential Phenomenology and Latin American & U.S. Latina Feminism
Heideggerian existential phenomenology remains largely ignored by Latin American feminists due to their preference for more Marxist and Sartrean philosophies. But its influence on Latin American feminism can be felt through the work of thinkers such as Beauvoir and Irigaray, who have had a great impact on Latin American feminists' involvement in political movements and development of theories. The aim of this essay is to discuss ways in which Lat…
New Mestizas,? ??World?-Travelers,? and ? Dasein: Phenomenology and the Multi-Voiced, Multi-Cultural Self
New Mestizas,” “World'Travelers,” and “Dasein”: Phenomenology and the Multi-Voiced, Multi-Cultural Self
The aim of this essay is to carry out an analysis of the multi-voiced, multi-cultural self discussed by Latina feminists in light of a Heideggerian phenomenological account of persons or “Existential Analytic.” In so doing, it (a) points out similarities as well as differences between the Heideggerian description of the self and Latina feminists' phenomenological accounts of self, and (b) critically assesses María Lugones's important notion of “w…
This Thin Edge of Barbwire: ” Selves from the Land in the Middle
Exiled space, in-between space: Existential spatiality in Ana Mendieta'sSiluetasSeries
Existential space is lived space, space permeated by our raced, gendered selves. It is representative of our very existence. The purpose of this essay is to explore the intersection between this lived space and art by analyzing the work of the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta and showing how her Siluetas Series discloses a space of exile. The first section discusses existential spatiality as explained by the phenomenologists Heidegger and Watsuji a…
Being Lovingly, Knowingly Ignorant: White Feminism and Women of Color
The aim of this essay is to analyze the notion of “loving, knowing ignorance,” a type of “arrogant perception” that produces ignorance about women of color and their work at the same time that it proclaims to have both knowledge about and loving perception toward them. The first part discusses Marilyn Frye's accounts of “arrogant” as well as of “loving” perception and presents an explanation of “loving, knowing ignorance.” The second part discuss…
Phenomenological Encuentros: Existential Phenomenology and Latin American & U.S. Latina Feminism
Heideggerian existential phenomenology remains largely ignored by Latin American feminists due to their preference for more Marxist and Sartrean philosophies. But its influence on Latin American feminism can be felt through the work of thinkers such as Beauvoir and Irigaray, who have had a great impact on Latin American feminists' involvement in political movements and development of theories. The aim of this essay is to discuss ways in which Lat…
Being Lovingly, Knowingly Ignorant: White Feminism and Women of Color
The aim of this essay is to analyze the notion of “loving, knowing ignorance,” a type of “arrogant perception” that produces ignorance about women of color and their work at the same time that it proclaims to have both knowledge about and loving perception toward them. The first part discusses Marilyn Frye's accounts of “arrogant” as well as of “loving” perception and presents an explanation of “loving, knowing ignorance.” The second part discuss…
Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader
Photographic Representation of Racialized Bodies
This paper examines photographic representations of the racialized body, more specifically, photographic representation of Afro-Mexicans, a group that has been previously made invisible from Mexican national identity but that has reemerged as the "Third Root of Mexico." The question guiding the discussion is whether such racialized bodies can be represented in such a way that does not perpetuate racist, colonialist desires and impulses. First, I …
Latina Feminism, Experience and the Self
The following paper discusses Latina feminist debates on selfhood and identity. Since work by Latina feminists is not widely recognized or studied within the discipline of philosophy, the aim of the first section of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to Chicana feminism as it has been and continues to be pivotal in the development of Latina feminism. Included in this section is an introduction to the work of celebrated Chicana theorist…
Speaking in Resistant Tongues: Latina Feminism, Embodied Knowledge, and Transformation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Decolonial Woes and Practices of Un-knowing
Decolonial philosophy aims at destabilizing and critiquing what Walter Mignolo has called Eurocentric macronarratives of coloniality. However, the very practices of decolonial thinkers in the U.S. academy can themselves replicate colonial impulses and erasures. In this article I discuss “decolonial woes,” or a certain affliction that arises when even resistant practices are connected to what I term “practices of un-knowing,” which distort and neg…
Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics
To gather together is an act of generosity, to identify and to connect pieces from here and there in order to give them meaning and structure so as to point to some linkage, configuration or coherence—but to do so without forgetting disparity, heterogeneity, and incoherence. In his deeply important work, Black is Beautiful, A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics, Paul C. Taylor engages in this careful act of gathering together, what, following Stuart H…
Spectral Perception and Ghostly Subjectivity at the Colonial Gender/Race/Sex Nexus
This article calls for an examination of the spectral operations of the perceptual architecture of colonization in conjunction with the enactment of a decolonial feminism as proposed by María Lugones. The first section discusses both the notion of ghostly subjectivity from Lugones's early work as well as the echoes of this notion in her recent work on the coloniality of gender that emphasizes the gender/race/sex nexus. Subsequently, through a pho…
Bodies of Color, Bodies of Sorrow: On Resistant Sorrow, Aesthetic Unsettlement, and Becoming-With
This article discusses sorrow in terms of its resistant possibilities. It describes bodies of color as ontological sites of sorrow in the context of racism and xenophobia. This sorrow, however, does not condemn these bodies to hopelessness and erasure. Rather, it may constitute a rupture with a present that fails to acknowledge racist and xenophobic practices. In addition, it connects sorrow to the kind of melancholia that bodies of color experie…
Territorios que hablan. Comunicación y resistencias en el norte de Argentina
Los pueblos originarios del norte de Salta se enfrentan cotidianamente a problemáticas sociales y ambientales derivadas de históricos procesos extractivistas. La pobreza, la desnutrición, el racismo y despojo territorial son condiciones que describen el contexto de vida de las poblaciones originarias. Las políticas y medidas adoptadas por el gobierno de Mauricio Macri a favor de la expansión de la frontera agropecuaria y del crecimiento de la pr…
Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance
Queer Autoarte: A Differential Aesthesis of the Limen
En primera persona: Ciudadanías comunicacionales en la experiencia de la FM Comunitaria La Voz Indígena
La FM Comunitaria La Voz Indígena es una radio pluriétnica, integrada por comunicadores de los pueblos wichi, guaraní, toba qom y chorote. Esta experiencia, ubicada en Tartagal (norte de la provincia de Salta) da cuenta de las complejas relaciones que los pueblos originarios entablan con el Estado. La emergencia de la comunicación comunitaria e indígena significó una profunda transformación en la vida de este colectivo. Construida para revertir l…
In-Between-Worlds and Re-membering: Latina Feminist Phenomenology and the Existential Analytic of Dasein
Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives
Agency in a Plural Register: Pitts Reading Lugones Reading Anzaldúa
Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad
Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works)