Critical, feminist and anti/post/decolonial approaches to understanding the world

Abstract

This article accounts for the main critical currents of contemporary counter-hegemonic thought, explaining their genealogies, political, epistemological and social transformation horizons. The objective is to observe the distances of each one and the possible articulations from their drifts and main referents. Non-hegemonic currents of thought and critical reflection are analyzed: postcolonial and anticolonial studies and, with greater emphasis, the decolonial turn as a radical reconceptualization of theory and politics in South America. A review of feminist currents beyond white feminism is also carried out: communitarian, black, Chicano. The relevance of these currents in the processes of production and vindication of the knowledge of the Global South, which has remained in the margins of the theoretical references of the Western academy, is recognized.