Radicalising 'Learning From Other Resisters' in Decolonial Feminism

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ID3945594
AuthorsIntan Paramaditha (0000-0003-3761-8958, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume131
Issue1
Pages33-49
Publication date2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01417789221102509
OpenAlexW4294162734
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited32

The rhetoric of decolonising feminism has been increasingly connected to reformism rather than a radical intervention. Problematising the idea of finality in the calls to decolonise, I suggest that decolonial feminism should be understood as an experiment, a risky, unfinished project rather than a fixed location, and I argue that it should be based on a more radicalised notion of what María Lugones calls 'learning from other resisters'. I draw on my experience working with feminists across the vast and diverse Indonesian nusantara (archipelago) and reflect on Lugones's concept of 'other resisters' in her essay 'Toward a decolonial feminism'. Learning from feminists from places such as Nusa Tenggara and West Papua who challenge the singular imagination of the Global South, I advocate shifting the debate away from Euro-American academia as the locus of knowledge production by centring other resisters on the path towards decolonial feminism. I propose three aspects in learning from other resisters: actively engaging in the process of creating feminist linkages, acknowledging borders and friction within the Global South and interrogating the notion of resistance

Feminism · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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