Compelled to Cross, Tempted to Master

Affective Challenges in Lugones's Decolonial Feminist Methodology

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ID18959446
AuthorsShireen Roshanravan (0000-0003-1522-9169, Kansas State University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume8
Issue1-2
Pages119-133
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692
PublisherThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/critphilrace.8.1-2.0119
OpenAlexW3004903530
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

This article explores the affective challenges of María Lugones's coalitional imperative of decolonial feminism as it requires sustaining painful confrontations for acting in complicity with the very oppressions the aspiring decolonial feminist may have believed herself to be entirely against. Because the coalitional crossings necessary to Lugones's decolonial feminist methodology involves moving toward discomfort out of a sense of responsibility, the decolonial feminist may be tempted toward mastery of radical performance rather than self-transformation. As a possible way out of this temptation toward mastery, this article turns to Lugones's own affective animation of her methodological commitment to live the coalitional imperative with a love rooted in, and routed through, an intimate sense of interdependence with other resisters at the colonial difference

Sociology · Computer Science · Latin American and Latino Studies · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society

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