Building Feminist and Intersectional Scholarship in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from the Social Sciences

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: FSE002 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC32 Women, Gender and Society (host committee)

Language: English, French and Spanish

We promote through this panel, the experiences and insights of building feminist and intersectional scholarship, but through contextual and professional considerations that locate the critical touchpoints and lessons learnt within efforts to build this type of scholarship within the global south. The panel will address three core areas, namely, feminist and intersectional exploration/integration, the importance of situating and advancing the two, as well as the experiences of scholars in Latin America and the Caribbean, with examinations of the experiences, insights, and directions within this process.

This session aims to generate dialogue between social scientists at various career stages in Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss their research on feminist and intersectional scholarship. We expect that the session will allow the identification of some of the unique challenges for feminist and intersectional scholarship in the region, as well as the strategies for advancing these perspectives. Ultimately, this session seeks to serve as a networking platform for exploring possible areas for collaboration, as well as for solidarity and advocacy regarding the development of feminist and intersectional scholarship.

The session will include 4-5, 15-20-minute oral presentations. We especially encourage submissions around the following topics:

  1. Situating Feminism, Intersectionality and Gender Politics
  2. Building Praxis for Feminist and Intersectional Scholarship
  3. Capacity, Solidarity and Advocacy within Feminist and Intersectional Scholarship
  4. Institutional Barriers to Feminist and Intersectional Research
  5. Feminist and Intersectional Backlash
  6. Decoloniality, Feminism and Intersectional Possibilities
Session Organizers:
Dr. Manuela MENDOZA HORVITZ, PhD in Sociology of Education, Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile and Talia ESNARD, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Oral Presentations
Décoloniser Les Savoirs Féministes : L’Expérience Haïtienne De Mouka.Ht
Denyse COTE, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
El Feminismo Purepecha Como Praxis Interseccional y Decolonial
Alondra SERVIN VELAZQUEZ, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Desafíos y Oportunidades En La Investigación Feminista e Interseccional: Un Análisis Comparativo Entre Chile y Alemania Desde Una Perspectiva Sur-Norte
Patricia RETAMAL GARRIDO, Universidad Mayor, Chile; Sabina GARCIA PETER, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Distributed Papers