Race, gender and rights from the perspective of coloniality

Seminar 1950

Chair: CLACSO
Coordination: Rita Segato (UnB, Brazil)
Home: 22 / 08 / 2019 | Registration: 04/02/2019 al 19/08/2019

Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.

Payment methods
If you have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

• Paying in one payment: USD 95 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you have a link with a Network or Institution Associated with CLACSO:

• Paying in one payment: USD 140 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

If you do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

• Paying in one payment BEFORE 12/08/2019: USD 150 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).
• Paying in one payment: USD 190 (includes issuance and shipping costs of the digital certificate).

Course presentation:

This course addresses the intersections of race and gender across the continent. It develops a critique of multicultural and essentialist discourses on race and gender, restoring the historicity of both hierarchies. It examines the impact of colonial modernity on the gender structures of pre-colonial/state intrusion communities. It elaborates a critique of the negative influence of global identity politics on race and gender, relocating both within national and regional matrices of historical otherness.

Contents:

• The question of the nation as a fundamental theme: National formations of otherness and critique of global multiculturalism
• The theoretical and political perspective of the critique of Coloniality
• A key difference with Postcolonial theory
• Dilemmas that arise when the State seeks to embrace or legislate Difference
• From Community Justice to the Law of Demarcation: the difficult path of the Bolivian experience
• The challenges of attempting pluralist constitutionalism, with examples from Bolivia and Ecuador
• The solution through radical relativism, as defended by Esther Sánchez Botero based on her Colombian experience
• The solution through historical pluralism and the return of community deliberative jurisdiction based on a Brazilian debate about a borderline case
• Race and Racism from a Latin American Perspective
• When the University wants to embrace difference: a reflection based on the struggle for “quotas” for black students in Brazil.
• Intersectionality based on two Brazilian cases: where are the black women?
• Historicizing gender: the colonial inflection captures low-impact patriarchy and transforms it into the lethal patriarchy of colonialism/modernity
• Gender as a colonial invention
• Inconsistencies in Oyeronke Oyewumi's analysis: Did gender not exist or was it different?
• The paths of capital in the apocalyptic phase of colonialism/modernity: the State-Capital pact as a pact of a criminal State

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