Social Sciences Postgraduate Network Collection
Decolonizing the third space between East and West
Feminist aesthetics situated in the South
Karina Bidaseca. [Author]
ISBN 978-987-813-366-9
CLACSO. CES - Center for Social Studies.
Buenos Aires.
out of 2022
This book, the product of conversations within the CLACSO Working Group on “Epistemologies of the South” and drawing on some aspects of the research project “Threads of Activism: Cartographies of Resistance to Ecocide” [PIP-CONICET], proposes to decolonize Western aesthetics that shape narrative forms, linear time, colors, and meanings. It is a critique of the dominant versions of Western modernity that sharply divided the world into metropolitan and colonial societies. Decolonizing the third space calls for a transformation that always occurs “in relation.”
The Epistemologies of the South collection was conceived in a format of small and agile books, which rather than forming a large edifice of knowledge accessible to only a few, are presented as small crafts to be discovered and as powerful compasses to cross an abyssal line that separates metropolitan forms of sociability from colonial experiences.
