Settler Xicana

Postcolonial and Decolonial Reflections on Incommensurability

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ID4414021
AuthorsAimee Carrillo Rowe (corresponding author), Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe
Year2017
Volume43
Issue3
Pages525-536
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0046-3663 • E-ISSN: 2153-3873
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/fem.2017.0034
OpenAlexW4298507744, W2767793148
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This paper takes Chicana/Xicana indigeneity as a productive and problematic site to consider the vexed conjuncture between decolonial and postcolonial approaches to critical knowledge production. I examine the intersection between Chicana and Native feminisms as a point of entry to consider how the incommensurabilities between these formations get played out within specific sites of knowledge production. I read my positionality as a Californio Rancho descendent to explore urgent questions of landedness raised by Indigenous studies scholars and consider how we might productively center questions of settlement within Chicana feminism. While Chicana relationships to land are varied, I reflect on my own positionality as a “settler Xicana” in an effort to sense the political and epistemic stakes for centering decolonial approaches in conversation with postcolonial/transnational feminisms

Conversation · Feminism · Geography · Indigenous · Intersection (aeronautics) · Knowledge production · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law

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