Epistemologies of the South, Mozambique and a post-colonial feminist quest

• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Teresa
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/87352; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3370661
• topic: Epistemologies of the South; Feminisms; Mozambique; Postcolonialisms; Epistemologías del Sur; Feminismo; Mozambique; Postcolonialismo

Far beyond Simone’s warnings, the epistemologies of the South are a theoretical body that allows us to think, in a critically different way, about the construction, not only social but also potentially colonial, of the concept of ‘woman’ and therefore, the emancipation of women. This article has a double goal. Firstly, it is to question feminisms through the concepts of the abyssal line and of ‘subaltern, insurgent cosmopolitanism’. The second is to analyse an episode of misogynistic emergency which occurred in Mozambique in 2016 and the resistance and feminist solidarity that followed by exerting a post-colonial feminist imagination. My methodological approach is based on the analysis of women’s narratives obtained in interviews, journalism pieces and social networks.