Epistemic decolonization from southern feminisms:

ancestral knowledge as resistance practices and re-existences

Abstract

This text is part of what Eli Bartra and Ana Maria Bach define as feminist research. Based on the contributions of Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso, he systematizes the theses on discursive colonization, epistemic violence and academic extractivism; He offers epistemic keys for the configuration of a feminist archive and makes visible Alieda Verhoeven's task as an active witness; legitimizes extension as a research-learning practice; presents the positions of María Lugones, Rita Segato, Julieta Paredes and María Galindo regarding patriarchy-gender in the pre-intrusion world; It strips the modern colonial episteme to anchor it in a local-global experience that agencies the construction of a locus of collective enunciation from below that is supported by the fabric of indigenous and community feminisms. It expands the audibility of listening to the experiences of Bolivian Indigenous Migrant Women Workers of the Ayllu of Guaymallén. In any case, it aims to share an archive of experiences, voices, practices and decolonial knowledge that expose a type of knowledge construction between, with and for southern feminisms that prioritizes processes rather than results.