Utopia and descolonial feminist aesthetics

imaginary dialogues with Aníbal Quijano for the revolution of our time

Authors

  • Karina Bidaseca Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rsoc.v0i28.16893

Keywords:

Utopias and decolonial aesthetics, coloniality, feminism, race, sex, gender, sexual dissidence

Abstract

The question about utopia and aesthetics opens up an unexplored territory of the legacy of Anibal Quijano in our contemporary world. This text addresses, from a descolonial feminist perspective, the aesthetic possibilities that the notion of utopia, inaugurated by the Peruvian sociologist, opens within the framework of the debates on the theory of the coloniality of power and gender. This essay seeks to explore the aesthetic sense of utopia in the search for another society that, necessarily today faces a world in which the veils have been run. Before our astonished eyes, we observe the dangerous order of domination of the fundamentalisms, with the most perverse visions of the occidentalism and ideology of gender associated with the forms of cultural imperialism, whose script is indelibly written in the bodies of women and dissidents. How to de-learn from the universe of concepts typical of Western philosophy and aesthetics towards a situated thinking? How to decolonize the Western aesthetic imaginary and how to dismantle the racist and sexist imaginaries of the modern / colonial order? How does your perspective help us to identify feminist and sexual dissidence experiences of aesthetic and utopian subversion today?

Author Biography

  • Karina Bidaseca, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Licenciada en Sociología, magíster en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y doctora en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Posdoctora en Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Niñez y Juventud del CINDE/ Universidad de Manizales, Colombia. Docente de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires e investigadora independiente del CONICET, en el Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales de Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina.

“Bartolina Sisa”, mural en la cárcel de Cochabamba, Bolivia

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Published

2019-10-17

Issue

No. 28 (2019)

Section

Studies

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Utopia and descolonial feminist aesthetics: imaginary dialogues with Aníbal Quijano for the revolution of our time. (2019). Revista De Sociología, 28, 15-25. https://doi.org/10.15381/rsoc.v0i28.16893