Postcolonial feminism in international relations? Intersections and theoretical dialogues to reflect on gender, refugee and violence in the Global South
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postcolonial feminism, violence, refugee.Abstract
This study proposes an exercise to think about how postcolonial feminism, emerged from the intersections and dialogues between feminist and postcolonial theoretical approaches, allows us to reflect on International Relations themes. The hypothesis is that the intersection of categories as race, gender, and class offered by postcolonial feminism makes it possible to understand issues on the international agenda, such as gender, violence, and refuge, from the Global South perspective. This paper is divided into three sections. The first is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of postcolonial feminism in International Relations. Then, in the second section, we discuss how the international refugee law, the motivations of forced displacement, the representation and the construction of the image of refugees can be thought from a Global South perspective. More specifically, in the last section, we work on these three dimensions to think about gender violence against women in refugee contexts: the concept of gender violence, the identities that shape women's experiences in the refugee context and the construction of the refugee women image. The results of the article contribute to the construction of a theoretical framework capable of reflecting on International Relations themes, from critical perspectives that value the identities, narratives, and experiences of individuals and women from the Global South.
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