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“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” This famous phrase was pronounced b... more “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” This famous phrase was pronounced by Audre Lorde during a conference at the New York University Institute for the Humanities in 1984. Invited to participate in the only, and hastily organized, section about black feminism in that event, Lorde questioned the modus operandi in academics feminists’ circuits that symptomatically replays racial hierarchies even when allowing some space for black feminists. Starting from this bruising criticism, this thematic issue of e-cadernos ces aims to ask: is it possible, within academia, to produce transformative – and not reproductive – knowledge on inequalities, historically structured upon hierarchies of gender, race and class? Lorde herself offers a clue to solve the dilemma: it is necessary to question the production of scientific knowledge from the perspective of those who have been excluded from the production of scientific knowledge. This is the standpoint for developing feminist projects of de-colonizing epistemologies. De-colonizing feminist epistemologies indicate that radical projects have their own stories of struggle, their own forms of both theorization and organization that embody – and transform – feminist practices. Basing on this perspective, we search for articles that critically problematize, in their analysis, at least one of the following issues: i) the plurality of knowledge, beyond false binaries and oppositions, as well as the importance of the political dimension of daily body experiences and their various forms of resistance; ii) the idea that a socially responsible knowledge can only be produced through an active dialogic engagement between different feminist initiatives, centered on a broad questioning of gender and class hierarchies; iii) the racial and classist foundations of science, including the critique of how capitalist processes produce ecological destruction and the expropriation of indigenous knowledge for profit; iv) the critique of both universalism and relativism, which aim not only to cover all experiences, reducing them to one explanatory scheme which is in itself incompatible with the complexity of the cultural constellations that structure (post)colonial societies, but also to overshadow the persistence of the colonial difference, obscuring and maintaining intact relations of power and domination.
e-cadernos CES, 2012
This paper analyzes how the attempt by feminist epistemologies to overcome the impasse between ob... more This paper analyzes how the attempt by feminist epistemologies to overcome the impasse between objectivity and relativism has led to various formulations of the concept of 'location' and to the standpoint theory. As a result, the political project of a transnational community of interpreters fostered by transnational feminism can be seen as deriving from such enduring process.
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L'attività politico-amministrativa dell'Assessorato alle Politiche Sociali, Famiglie e Pari Oppor... more L'attività politico-amministrativa dell'Assessorato alle Politiche Sociali, Famiglie e Pari Opportunità della Provincia di Barletta Andria Trani, a partire da alcune deleghe regionali che hanno indirizzato le scelte della neocostituita Amministrazione provinciale, è stata caratterizzata da una programmazione che ha puntato ad intervenire su due principali macroaree di intervento:
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” This famous phrase was pronounced b... more “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” This famous phrase was pronounced by Audre Lorde during a conference at the New York University Institute for the Humanities in 1984. Invited to participate in the only, and hastily organized, section about black feminism in that event, Lorde questioned the modus operandi in academics feminists’ circuits that symptomatically replays racial hierarchies even when allowing some space for black feminists. Starting from this bruising criticism, this thematic issue of e-cadernos ces aims to ask: is it possible, within academia, to produce transformative – and not reproductive – knowledge on inequalities, historically structured upon hierarchies of gender, race and class? Lorde herself offers a clue to solve the dilemma: it is necessary to question the production of scientific knowledge from the perspective of those who have been excluded from the production of scientific knowledge. This is the standpoint for developing feminist projects of de-colonizing epistemologies. De-colonizing feminist epistemologies indicate that radical projects have their own stories of struggle, their own forms of both theorization and organization that embody – and transform – feminist practices. Basing on this perspective, we search for articles that critically problematize, in their analysis, at least one of the following issues: i) the plurality of knowledge, beyond false binaries and oppositions, as well as the importance of the political dimension of daily body experiences and their various forms of resistance; ii) the idea that a socially responsible knowledge can only be produced through an active dialogic engagement between different feminist initiatives, centered on a broad questioning of gender and class hierarchies; iii) the racial and classist foundations of science, including the critique of how capitalist processes produce ecological destruction and the expropriation of indigenous knowledge for profit; iv) the critique of both universalism and relativism, which aim not only to cover all experiences, reducing them to one explanatory scheme which is in itself incompatible with the complexity of the cultural constellations that structure (post)colonial societies, but also to overshadow the persistence of the colonial difference, obscuring and maintaining intact relations of power and domination.
e-cadernos CES, 2012
This paper analyzes how the attempt by feminist epistemologies to overcome the impasse between ob... more This paper analyzes how the attempt by feminist epistemologies to overcome the impasse between objectivity and relativism has led to various formulations of the concept of 'location' and to the standpoint theory. As a result, the political project of a transnational community of interpreters fostered by transnational feminism can be seen as deriving from such enduring process.
L'attività politico-amministrativa dell'Assessorato alle Politiche Sociali, Famiglie e Pari Oppor... more L'attività politico-amministrativa dell'Assessorato alle Politiche Sociali, Famiglie e Pari Opportunità della Provincia di Barletta Andria Trani, a partire da alcune deleghe regionali che hanno indirizzato le scelte della neocostituita Amministrazione provinciale, è stata caratterizzata da una programmazione che ha puntato ad intervenire su due principali macroaree di intervento: