Latin American Descolonial Feminisms: Geopolitics, Resistance and International Relations

The Latin American decolonial feminism was born with a strong influence of the Latin American autonomous feminism that from 1980-1990 began a process of development of thought and political practices of resistance to make visible the inequality of race, ethnicity, class, sex and gender in which a good part of the women of Latin America live. It is proposed to dismantle the categorical ascription of the West both in the academic and in the political, for that reason it has vital importance in and for the International Relations discipline. One of the challenges of decolonial thinking has been to understand the global dimension and its connection with the local to rethink the possible political alternatives to neoliberal globalization and coloniality and in that sense it acquires geopolitical character. Interested in: 1) Explain decolonial feminism in Latin America and differentiate it from other forms of feminism, especially postcolonial feminism. 2) Determine the sources from which it is nourished and the ontological, epistemological, aesthetic and ethical conceptions that characterize it. 3) Determine the collective political practices that precede it and its proposals for socio-political transformation and finally 4) review its usefulness in the field of international relations. It is concluded that it is a highly strategic thought because it considers the value of other epistemologies, ontologies, ethics and aesthetics to think the world outside the discourses of right and left.