Terrorismo de gênero: estratégia às violências epistêmicas a partir de um debate decolonial global

Gender terrorism: strategy for epistemic violence from a global decolonial debate

Abstract

This article aims to present some initial notes of the notion “gender terrorism” and “terrorist” action, as a possibility of a critical and theoretical approach to colonialist attacks on the production of narratives and epistemic violence, from the field of Global History, subordinate feminisms and decolonial. The hypothesis that I defend here is that from what we consider as “competing approaches” in Global History, according to Sebastian Conrad (2019), that is, post-colonial criticism, subordinate feminisms and decolonial studies have built plural epistemic options since the global south at the expense of a hegemonic historiography of the North. In addition, to present a theoretical and methodological possibility that is diverse, anti-colonial and opens the way for the rupture of epistemicides, that is, the invisibility, erasure and destruction of local knowledge. The article is divided into two sections: in the first one we present the state of the art of the debate in Global History and the subordinate studies, including feminisms that are inclined to this perspective. In the second session, we reflect, from the brief bibliographic review, how the field makes it possible to perceive and understand the relevance of the action of gender terrorists at the present time.