EPISTEMOLOGY OF FEMINIST DECOLONIALISM AND AESTHETICS OF BORDERLANDS

Abstract

The essay explores feminist decoloniality as a method and praxis for embodying sensory cognitive experience and the politics of borderlands. Within this context, it elaborates on how feminist epistemology opens new dimensions in the framework of specific conflicts and crimes against humanity (wars, displacements, seeking asylum). The act of displacing decolonial bodies into a new interspace and in-betweenness, coupled with the necropolitical violence of capitalism, prompts a critical interrogation of the onto-epistemological and political implications of the borderlands of displacement and "being-in-the-desire-for-survival"—conceived as the only possible radical feminist act of thinking and acting.

This epistemological-political direction of redefining the episteme of border spaces, necrosis, and politics constitutes the second part of the essay's elaboration. The aim is to argue that feminist decoloniality is rooted in economic injustice, as well as in historical and racial materialism. This approach traces the capitalist redefinitions of transformative justice and feminist injustice, which still represent an open process of non-linear epistemology and a thought process filled with discontinuities, amplitudes, and struggles for survival.

These concepts are investigated through the prism of current mass processes of migration, wars, colonial ambitions, racial capitalism, forced migrations, systems of violence, and invisible violence. They are treated as new paradigms for rethinking the epistemology of feminist social decoloniality today, in the post-COVID era, and between the worlds of a dystopian present marked by wars and military necrophilia. The hope of feminist epistemology against colonialism is rooted in a new reading of the feminist challenge against war and in opening up space for the most resilient forms of marginalization within epistemic discipline and intersectionality.