Race, gender and rights from the perspective of coloniality

Seminar 1903

Chair: CLACSO
Coordination: Rita Segato (UnB, Brazil)
Home: 30 / 04 / 2019 | Registration: 04/02/2019 al 20/04/2019

Workload: (12 weeks) 48 hours of work with the teacher and 120 hours of total dedication

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 do NOT have a link with a CLACSO Associated Center:

Paying in one payment BEFORE 31/03/2019: 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

General Bibliography of the Seminar

Segato, Rita Laura: “Introduction” and “Political Identities /Historical Alterities: A Critique of the Certainties of Global Pluralism” in The Nation and its Others. Race, Ethnicity and Religious Diversity in Times of Identity Politics (Buenos Aires: Prometeo 2007)
Rufer, Mario: “Temporality as politics: nation, forms of the past and postcolonial perspectives”, Mem.soc / Bogotá (Colombia), 14 (28): 11-31 / January-June 2010
Segato, Rita Laura: "Anibal Quijano and the perspective of the Coloniality of Power" in Segato, Rita The Critique of Coloniality in eight essays and an Anthropology on Demand. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2015
Quijano, Aníbal: “'Race', 'ethnicity' and 'nation' in Mariategui: open questions”; “What about race!”; and “Coloniality of power, Eurocentrism and Latin America”, in Palermo, Zulma and Pablo Quintero (eds.): Aníbal Quijano. Founding Texts. Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Signo, Colección El desprendimiento, 2014.
Xavier Albó: “Main characteristics of Customary Law”, summary of some elements of the larger document “Commentary on the case studies of the Community Justice Project 1” (mimeo)
_: “Indigenous Justice in Plurinational Bolivia.” In Boaventura de Souza Santos and José Luis Exeni Rodríguez (eds), Indigenous Justice, Plurinationality and Interculturality in Bolivia. La Paz: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Abya-Yala eds., 2012, pp. 201-248.
Yrigoyen Fajardo, Raquel Z.: “The horizon of pluralist constitutionalism: from multiculturalism to decolonization”. Presented at the VII RELAJU Congress, Lima, Peru, 2010.
Sánchez Botero, Esther: “Too much law and too little anthropology: the negative impact of globalized law on ethnic societies” (final text forthcoming)
Segato, Rita Laura: “Que cada povo teça os fios da sua história: O pluralismo Jurídico em diálogo didático com legisladores”. Its latest and revised version in Rev. Direito.UnB, Vol. 1, No. 1, January to June 2014. Spanish version: “Que cada pueblo teja los hilos de su historia: la colonialidad legislativa de los salvadores de la infancia indígenas”, in Segato, Rita: La Crítica de la Colonialidad en ocho ensayos y una Antropología por demanda. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2015
Segato, Rita Laura: “The Monochromaticity of Myth, or Where to Find Africa in the Nation,” in The Nation and Its Others: Race, Ethnicity, and Religious Diversity in Times of Identity Politics. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2007.
Segato, Rita Laura: "The Color of Prison in Latin America: Notes on the Coloniality of Justice in a Continent Under Deconstruction," Nueva Sociedad No. 208, March-April 2007. Also in Segato, Rita: The Critique of Coloniality in Eight Essays and an Anthropology on Demand. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2015
Segato, Rita Laura: “The Deep Channels of the Latin American Race – A Re-reading of Mestizaje.” Buenos Aires: Revista Crítica y Emancipación, Year II, No. 3, 2010. Also in Segato, Rita: The Critique of Coloniality in Eight Essays and an Anthropology on Demand. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2015
Segato, Rita Laura: "Cotas: why do we react?" USP Magazine, São Paulo, no. 68, p. 76-87, dez. Jan. fev. 2005/2006
Segato, Rita Laura: “Race is a Sign”, in The Nation and its Others. Race, ethnicity and religious diversity in times of identity politics. Buenos Aires: Prometeo 2007
Segato, Rita Laura: “Introduction: Coloniality of Power and an Anthropology on Demand”, in Segato, Rita The Critique of Coloniality in Eight Essays and an Anthropology on Demand. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2015
Segato, Rita Laura: "Decolonial Gaps for a Latin American University." Havana, Cuba: Casa de las Américas Magazine No. 266, 2012. Also in Segato, Rita: The Critique of Coloniality in Eight Essays and an Anthropology on Demand. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2015
Segato, Rita Laura: L'Oedipe Noir. Des mères e des nourrices. Paris: Payot et Rivages, Petite Collection Payot, 2014. Spanish version “El Oedipe brasilero: colonialidad y forclusión de género y raza” in Segato, Rita La Crítica de la Colonialidad en ocho ensayos y una Antropología por demanda. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2015.
Segato, Rita Laura: BLACK WOMEN = SUBJECT OF DIREITOS e as Convenções para a Eliminação da Discriminação, Brasilia-DF: AGENDE-UNIFEM-DFID, 2006.
Lugones, María: “Heterosexualism and the Colonial /Modern Gender System”, Hypatia vol. 22, no. 1 (Winter 2007)
Segato, Rita Laura: "Gender, Politics, and Hybridity in the Transnationalization of Yoruba Culture," in The Elementary Structures of Violence. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2013 (2003 1st Edition). Segato, Rita Laura: "Gender and Coloniality: From Low-Intensity Community Patriarchy to High-Intensity Colonial-Modern Patriarchy," in Segato, Rita: The Critique of Coloniality in Eight Essays and an Anthropology on Demand. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2015.
Segato, Rita Laura: “Sex and the norm: state front, patriarchy, dispossession, colonity”, Revista de Estudos Feministas, Florianópolis, 22(2): 304, May-August/2014, and in Segato, Rita: The Critique of Coloniality in eight essays and an Anthropology on demand. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2015
Segato, Rita Laura: “Introduction,” in Segato, Rita: The War Against Women. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2016. Segato, Rita Laura: “Writing on the Bodies of Murdered Women in Ciudad Juárez.” Mexico City: Ediciones de la Universidad de Claustro de Sor Juana, 2006. Also in Segato, Rita: The War Against Women. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2016
Segato, Rita Laura: "The New Forms of War and Women's Bodies," REv. Sociedade e Estado, Volume 29 Number 2, May/August 2014. Also in Segato, Rita: The War Against Women. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2016
Segato, Rita Laura: “Patriarchy from the margins to the center: Disciplining, territoriality and cruelty in the apocalyptic phase of capital”, Segato, Rita: The War Against Women. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2016.

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