Rooted-South Feminisms: Disobedient Epistemologies and Transformative Politics

Abstract

paper introduces the term "Rooted-South feminism" and outlines its epistemic-rationality.I first show how these thinkers root their epistemological frame in the collective struggle of racialized women.Through this account I then make explicit the relational political ontology that grounds their thinking, paradigmatically expressed in the notions of "territory-body-land" and "terracide."In describing how patriarchy functions as a system of domination that desensitises subjects to the suffering of the Other, I argue that Rooted-South feminists expose the structural relationship between capitalism, coloniality, violence against women, and the destruction of the Earth.Here, the feminine is conceived as a social function produced throughout the long histories of women.This "politics in a feminine key" uniquely understands the sphere of reproduction not simply as a vector of domination, but as the foundation for the liberation and regeneration of life in its totality.Rooted-South feminists propose an authentic historical pluralism engaged in the co-construction of an inhabited earth.