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To rethink European feminisms on an international scale requires a powerful theoretical reworking of space. It is a question of thinking the materiality of its borders not as something fixed, given once and for all, but, on the contrary, as a dimension where the feminist struggles, the new subjectivations that come out of it, the changing gender relations, constantly reformulate and rebuild its limits, its borders. Hence, the need to consider a geography capable of making space the object of a critical problematization, to show how this space - and its historicity - is affected in its geographical and cultural materiality by the postcolonial and decolonial feminist struggles. In this text I will focus on showing how “denationalizing European feminisms”, following Dipesh Chakrabarty’s invitation to provincialize Europe, means to interrogate the genealogy, the very story of European feminisms, through this denationalization. If belonging to the women’s movement does not require the blind adherence to a dogma or a definite and valid representation of all times, then re-politicizing European feminisms means inventing new ways of being together, by choosing according to which priorities and by what means to tinker with fragmentary theories, or even how “to move” to implement a plural and multilingual dialogue - in short, it is a question of imagining a radically international feminism.
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Europe Critical Studies European Studies Gender Studies
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MONTANARO, Mara – “Deprovincializing and Denationalizing European Feminisms” in Eduarda Neves (Ed.) WALKING AROUND THE SUN. MACHINES, SPIDERS AND BUCCANEERS | NOTES ON EUROPE. THE DOGMATIC SLEEP. Porto: CEAA/ESAP-CESAP, 2021, pp.18-29.