“It is not just a language issue”: the inaudibility of Latin-American feminist studies in the Anglo-Saxon academic world

Abstract

The central thesis of this paper is that feminist studies produced in Latin America are inaudible to Anglo Saxon feminists. In dialogue with the voices of academics from Argentina, Mexico and Colombia, this thesis is elaborated from three perspectives. First, a geopolitics of knowledge that builds singular forms of systematic ignorance versus what happens in Latin America by Anglo-Saxon scholars. Second, the mechanisms by which this systematic ignorance is co-confi gured, on the one hand, by the monetization of the academy in Latin America, particularly through the generation of integrated informational systems to measure knowledge production, and, on the other hand, by the views adopted by some feminist scholars in the region who seek to resist this power relationship to which they are subjected. Third, a diff erent resistance to not listen to the Anglo-Saxon feminist scholars, expressed in the will of weaving cross dialogues, to negotiate, and thus to reconfi gure the exclusion from the canon; a search that is not free of diffi culties and frustrations