Latin American decolonial feminist perspectives on doing transnational research
Speakers: Juana Francis Bone (co-founder of NGO Mujeres de Asfalto) and
Dr Sofia Zaragocin (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)
Moderator: Dr Inge Boudewijn (Northumbria University)
Date: Wednesday, 2 June 2021
This event was in Spanish with simultaneous English translation. Please note that due to Zoom limitations the recording is mostly in English, but Spanish subtitles are available in the video recording (please make sure to click on "CC" in the YouTube video settings to activate the Closed Caption function which is in Spanish for this video).
About the presentation (that was followed by participatory discussion):
Juana Francis Bone and Sofia Zaragocin will speak about the challenges of decolonising research. Specifically, they will respond to the following questions: is it possible to decolonise a transnational research project, working between England and Ecuador? What aspects of the research process still fall short of being decolonised? And finally, is the process of decolonisation enough to achieve a transnational feminist research that is equitable and fair to all?
About the Speakers:
Juana Francis Bone is a black woman, feminist and anti-racist activist, who travels between mixtures of urban and rural realities. She faithfully believes in the possibility of making a better society. She is part of the Mujeres de Asfalto Collective, as well as the Re-existencias Cimarrunas Collective. "Everything is political and everything is personal."
Dr Sofia Zaragocin is a lecturer and researcher at the Universidad de San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador). Her research centers on decolonial feminist geography and processes of racialization of space. She has written on death-body-territory processes in cross-border spaces, the politics of the uterus in spaces of slow death, and on mapping the criminalization of abortion in Ecuador, among other topics. She is part of the Critical Geography Collective of Ecuador (Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador) and the Re-existencias Cimarrunas Collective.
About the Moderator:
Dr Inge Boudewijn is a post-doctoral research fellow at Northumbria University, UK. She is a feminist, interdisciplinary academic, drawing from geography, sociology and anthropology and participatory, creative methodologies, often focusing on the gender and social dimensions of natural research extraction in Latin America. She tweets @IBoudewijn.
Juana, Sofia and Inge are part of a research team working on the decolonial project 'RECLAMA: Harnessing Afro-Ecuadorian Women's Heritage'. This research project works with Afro-Ecuadorian women in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, aiming to create spaces for collective, creative reflection on their identity, as a means of valuing culturally specific narratives, practices, memories, and heritage, while harnessing these for equitable development in the context of large-scale resource extraction, marginalisation and violence.
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