2024 - Call for Papers: dossier 2025.2 - Against epidermal and subcutaneous archives: the somateca in the history of thought

The proposal seeks to put into dialogue the arguments of postcolonial theory, counter-hegemonic feminisms, and crip studies to reflect on the isolation of bodies and subaltern narratives in the history of thought. These theories have converged in the importance of studying the production of knowledge within the framework of racial, heteropatriarchal or ableist systems of thought. In this sense, we consider that it is important to think of a different epistemological archive in order to build other tools for social reflection: the somateca, an archive of thoughts that problematize the modern/Eurocentric matrix that separates reason from the body. It is an exercise of cognitive justice, whose starting point is the recognition of the right to equality and difference of corporalities and their diverse knowledge. In this Dossier we will receive articles that problematize the reality of subalternized bodies in the history of thought, considering how these theoretical/methodological approaches have been applied to the artistic and cultural production and by socially grouped communities in the territorial space considered as Latin America or in the global south. We also encourage the presentation of proposals that seek to establish a south-south dialogue within the framework of this epistemological approach. Anti-colonial theory, counter-hegemonic feminisms and crip studies have been very important in the study of bodies in the first place, denouncing the use of the body of non-Western alterities and spatialities (FANON, 2008; MAHMOOD, 2008; GREINER, 2023) and in the construction of the Eurocentric universal identity (LUGONES, 2014); secondly, by giving back to these bodies the capacity for argumentation to restore and heal colonial wounds. As a consequence of the depredations of colonialism and patriarchy, intellectual resistance that questions the forms of epistemological domination continues to be necessary (OYEWUMI, 1997). Far from being a simple intellectual opposition to a Western-centric thought, these theories offer the possibility of a new geo- and body-politics of knowledge. In the history of thought, the anti-colonial somateca is the device that archives the restlessness of these bodies in the face of racist, sex and gender, and ableist mechanisms of oppression.