TY - JOUR
T1 - Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas
AU - Zaragocin, Sofia
AU - Francis Bone, Juanita
AU - Boudewijn, Inge
AU - Jenkins, Katy
PY - 2024/5/1
Y1 - 2024/5/1
N2 - This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country. This results in tensions between governmental and autonomous feminist perspectives that are present in local spaces, such as the province of Esmeraldas in Northern Ecuador. Drawing on research conducted with Afro-Ecuadorian peer researchers, including interviews, oral histories and social-cartography methods, this article will demonstrate how Afro-Ecuadorian women are challenging dominant ideas and practices of development from the emerging ideas of Black feminism in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas.
AB - This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country. This results in tensions between governmental and autonomous feminist perspectives that are present in local spaces, such as the province of Esmeraldas in Northern Ecuador. Drawing on research conducted with Afro-Ecuadorian peer researchers, including interviews, oral histories and social-cartography methods, this article will demonstrate how Afro-Ecuadorian women are challenging dominant ideas and practices of development from the emerging ideas of Black feminism in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas.
KW - Black feminism
KW - Ecuador
KW - development
KW - feminist political ecology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85191737307&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1332/204378921X16910812352268
DO - 10.1332/204378921X16910812352268
M3 - Article
SN - 2326-9995
VL - 14
SP - 229
EP - 248
JO - Global Discourse: An interdisciplinary journal of current affairs
JF - Global Discourse: An interdisciplinary journal of current affairs
IS - 2-3
ER -