MAKING ABSENCES VISIBLE: Dialogues in Peru on the challenges to the practices and concepts of feminism posed by theories as de-colonization and borderthinking

This research paper is about intercultural feminist dialogues in Peru which objective is to resurrect other knowledges and to reflect on the challenges to the concept and practice of feminism posed by theories such as de-colonial and borderline thinking. Different processes of dialogues have made a significant difference concerning the question what counts as knowledge. Other knowledges than the knowledge, which is presented as a monoculture (the highest form of knowledge), are re-valued and spaces are organized to reflect on these other epistemic territories. Nevertheless, we cannot escape the profound effects of modernity and these patterns of domination, which have governed the world for the last centuries. We cannot avoid power relations and we should even not want to, but we should constantly reflect on the violence we direct at others. De-colonization is a life-long process in which white people should reflect on whiteness without feeling guilty, in which people close to the norm should question the apparently naturalness of their position, in which the exclusions and inclusions of the strategic definition of intersectionality should be constantly reflected, so it would include one oppression and reproduce others.