Decolonizing genealogies in the emerging feminisms: impact of zapatistas women.

Authors

  • Márgara Millán Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Abstract

At Feminism at the present moment, as a name that we give to the resistances of specific women in specific situations, demands an integral and integrating critical intentionality on the Nation and the national space. In order to take that step, feminisms have had to cross identity boundaries in an exercise of self-decolonization. The zapatista indigenous uprising in México and the following political agenda has been essencial for new visibility and a new politics of enuntiation of “women in struggle”, placement and speech space that in the recent years have been formulating an antisistemic platform, anti-capitalist and antipatriacal, decolonizing modernity illusions.

Keywords:

feminisms, decolonization, modernity, LatinAmerica, zapatista women

Author Biography

Márgara Millán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Socióloga y Doctora en Antropología Social, profesora titular en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ha dirigido lo sproyectos de Modernidades alternativas y nuevo sentido común: anclajes de una modernidad no capitalista (2011-2014), y Modernidades alternativas y prefiguraciones de lo político (2015 a 2018). Es parte de la Red de Feminismos Descoloniales.