Decolonising Gender from the Global South: Epistemic Critique, Care, and Reproductive Justice in Latin America [Panel in Portuguese]

Abstract

[Panel in Portuguese] This panel advances a decolonial and intersectional approach to gender and politics by treating ‘gender’ itself as a contested category shaped by colonial epistemologies, racial hierarchies, and neoliberal political economy in Latin America. It brings Global South feminist critique to the forefront, interrogating how Western universalism becomes an ethical-political imperative that regulates knowledge and social roles while converting difference into inequality. Against this, the panel centres Black and decolonial feminist genealogies to rethink foundational concepts—subject, body, care, and autonomy—through South–South dialogues and situated vocabularies such as body–territory. It links epistemic critique to material conditions of exploitation and social reproduction, showing how contemporary regimes of labour and ‘high-exploitation’ patriarchy intensify the capture of women’s time, energy, and reproductive work. The panel also connects theory to institutions and lived experience, examining how gender-perspective judicial protocols shape (or fail to shape) decisions on maternal care labour, and how reproductive injustice is narrated and navigated under criminalisation through clandestine abortion trajectories, affective support networks, and intraregional (non-)reproductive mobility. Overall, it argues that decolonising gender requires reworking both categories and governance—across knowledge, courts, and everyday survival.

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