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Accepted Paper:
Conducting decolonial feminist research in times of colonial, patriarchal genocide: theory vs praxis
María González Flores
(University of A Coruña)
Insights on reconciling decolonial feminist theory with praxis amid colonial challenges, emphasizing the clashes between activism and academia and the hypocrisy of academic institutions supposedly committed to those theoretical approaches. Autoethnographic reflections on academic responsibility.
Paper long abstract:
This article aims to analyze the challenges of reconciling theory and praxis at a time when decolonial theory is prominent, and the feminist perspective is assumed in progressive social science environments. It explores how this reality directly clashes with the academic practices of institutions that self-define as critical, feminist, and decolonial. To achieve this, we will first define the characteristics of militant feminist decolonial research. Subsequently, we will contextualize the situation in Palestine in the aftermath of the 7th of October 2023. Finally, we will resort to autoethnographic practice to investigate responses to academic responsibility issues that arise in this period. The objective is to examine the practical limitations of theory and the theoretical constraints of praxis at the intersections between activism and academia.