In Epistemologies of the South, Boaventura de Sousa Santos acknowledges that the transformation of the world comes from alternative perspectives that 'reinvent social emancipation on a global scale' (2016).
Along these lines and embedded in Latin American (Abya Yala) ancestral knowledge, sentipensar (feeling-thinking) has developed as a way of feeling and knowing the world. From the experiences of Colombian fishermen (Escobar 2014; Fals Borda 2015) to the ancestral living of the Mayan Tzeltal in the Chiapas highlands of Mexico (Méndez Torres et al. 2013), feeling and thinking processes are experienced as interconnected and fundamental to living in harmony with mother earth (Pachamama).
The Heo/Geo Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the UP Department of Geography and the Philippine Geographical Society (PGS), presents a talk entitled 'Decolonial feminisms, power and place: Sentipensando (feeling-thinking) with rural women in Colombia' by Laura Rodríguez Castro. The talk is scheduled on Friday, 9th of May 2025 at 11:30AM (PHT) and 1:30PM (AEST).
In this talk, Dr Rodríguez Castro reflects on embodying and understanding feeling-thinking and its entanglement with undertaking participatory research that is politically grounded in decoloniality and feminisms. She proposes that feeling-thinking addresses epistemic questions of the praxis of decoloniality, including how we embody research, how we understand place and how we unlearn to feeling-know other worlds.
Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro is a Colombian Vice-Chancellor Senior Research Fellow and educator at the Faculty of Education's Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education Research Centre at Southern Cross University, Australia. Her research focuses on Southern knowledges of anti/decoloniality and feminisms, critical and public pedagogies, memory studies and rurality. Her work also contributes to methodological debates on arts, visual and participatory methods. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Intercultural Studies. Laura’s book with Palgrave Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place: Sentipensando with Rural Women in Colombia (2021) explores how rural women enact and imagine decolonial feminist worlds.
As in previous iterations, the Heo/Geo Lecture Series aims to bring various geography practitioners from the academy, civil society, industry and community to share their geography-informed research, pedagogies and practices that operate in multiple scales. This lecture is facilitated by the Human Geography (HUG) and Media, Literary Geographies, and Geohumanities (MELANGE) research groups of the UP Department of Geography. It also satisfies the Social Development Goals #4 (Quality Education) and #15 (Life on Land) of the United Nations Sustainable Development.
To participate in our Lecture Series, please register through this link or paste this in your URL: https://tinyurl.com/ms572xk8
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