Keywords
colonial matrix of power
Federici
Lugones
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Abstract
This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of the gendered and racialized nature of colonialism from a critical approach of the notion of colonial matrix of power. Bringing back Federici’s and Lugones’ feminist contributions, we will deepen the place that gender, sexuality and race have in shaping the system of domination. In the case of Federici, we will try to recover the role assigned to the witch hunts in the process of primitive accumulation of capital, expanding and deepening this key notion of the Marxist theory. In the case of Lugones, we appeal to her critique of Quijano to stretch the compression limits around the place of gender and sexuality in shaping the colonial matrix of power. Picking up again the decolonial upset as a critical approach to Eurocentric Marxism, we seek to contribute, from feminism, to the androcentric detachment of the decolonial perspective.
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