Theoretical-critical-sentimental craftsmanship, transparencies and opacities: decolonial, intersectional, and transfeminist braids.

Abstract

The dossier “Epistemic Disobedience and Epistemologies of the South: Decolonial, Intersectional, and Third-World Transfeminist Perspectives” brings together contributions that take epistemic disobedience as a fundamental critical movement to question and subvert the Eurocentric and Western structures that have historically regulated scientific production, especially in the fields of humanities, gender and sexuality studies, ethnic-racial relations, and class. Starting from a decolonial perspective and affirming the centrality of epistemologies of the South, this issue focuses on incorporating intersectional and transfeminist approaches as reading regimes capable of destabilizing hegemonic narratives, confronting silences, and rejecting traditional dichotomies (such as subject/object and human/non-human) that underpin colonial rationality. This is, therefore, a space for theoretical and political composition aimed at revising the practices and policies of knowledge production and at building an academy involved with processes of resistance and social transformation, recognizing as a legitimate source of theory the experiences and struggles of groups historically pushed into subalternity.