CHALLENGING ANGLOCENTRIC FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY FROM LATIN AMERICAN FEMINIST DEBATES ON TERRITORIALITY (original) (raw)

Challenging the epistemic dominance of Anglocentric feminist geography is not a linear process of knowledges from "below" disrupting knowledges from "above." The flow of place-based knowledges is multidimensional and lived through subject positions that are often transcultural. This chapter addresses how we can discuss feminist geography in places where intellectual traditions do not converge on the same questions or share the same trajec-tory. Specifically, this chapter makes the case for a decolonized transloca-tion (Alvarez 2014) of feminist geography to question the field's epistemic privilege while allowing for nuanced conceptualizations of what constitutes feminist geography. This insight stems from being a decolonial feminist geographer in Ecuador, a country that has had limited engagement with critical geography debates-even those currently unfolding in Latin America. As a child immigrant to the United States, then an adult migrant from the United States back to Ecuador, I embody an uncomfortable set of relations, positioned amid uneven postcolonial flows of knowledge. Moving back and forth between different localities, I have witnessed how epistemes are profoundly place-based. Through border crossings and transcultural personal experiences, I found a conceptual home in the tradition of feminist geography because it emphasized place and space as determinant factors in gender relations. Nevertheless, returning to Ecuador, a country with a distinct intellectual tradition, required