When good intentions aren’t enough: Intersectional invisibilities in academia and the decolonial turn
- Author(s)
- Dominique Bauer, Daniela Paredes Grijalva
- Abstract
The decolonial turn resonates not only in gender studies but across the humanities and arts. While research and teaching increasingly align with decolonization and intersectional perspectives, we understand this as more than intellectual tasks, rather as a call for transformative action with tangible symbolic and material consequences. Taking into account transnational feminist discourses, this article explores what we can do in practice in an institutional context that fosters structures of coloniality and invisibilization of knowledge otherwise in academic knowledge production. Addressing this issue requires an understanding of marginalizing structures on a meta-level and keeping an eye on a less observed micro-level: our own part in the process of academic knowledge production, understanding these dynamics as part of a broader interconnected framework of decolonial actions that emphasizes communal responsibility and comprehensive partnerships.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- Universität Zürich (UZH), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
- Journal
- Gender - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft
- Volume
- 16
- Pages
- 217-230
- No. of pages
- 13
- ISSN
- 1868-7245
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v16i3.15
- Publication date
- 10-2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504014 Gender studies, 504031 Diversity research
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 5 - Gender Equality, SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities, SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/4ed6a280-aec1-4621-84d4-785810f0ecd4