The sea and the body as liminal spaces: an epistemological investigation on colonial wounds

This research paper is an encounter of stories, each of which narrates a different epistemological position with the sea highlighting different ways of learning and (un)learning. Through the metaphor of the sea and the adoption of liminagraphy, a feminist decolonial approach, the research aims to refuse a colonial/imperialistic binary logic and to embrace “embodied” and “relational” ways of knowing (and being). Exploring the connection with body, trauma, and the sea, it investigates the systemic invisible violence that caused the colonial wounds and their (im)possibility to heal. The research, therefore, aims to highlight and acknowledge the tensions that the current global system still carries and to question the possibilities and impossibilities of completely resisting it, as the first step toward a social transition.