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Desalambrando: A Nasa Standpoint for Liberation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2020

Susana E. Matallana-Peláez Open the ORCID record for Susana E. Matallana-Peláez [Opens in a new window]
Susana E. Matallana-Peláez*
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Gender Studies and Research Center - Language School, Universidad del Valle, Ciudad Universitaria Melendez Calle 13 No 100-00, 760032Cali, Colombia
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Abstract

This article examines the Nasa peoples’ resistance praxis known as “Desalambrar”. Through the analysis of Nasayuwe language, textile art, and ritual dance, the article looks at the idea of ontological continuum at the heart of this praxis, exploring how this concept provides the Nasa with a philosophical standpoint for what they have called “the liberation of Mother Earth”. The article then examines how this idea challenges the Eurocentric divide between Man and Nature/Woman and what it can possibly mean for women, gender, feminism, and the environment.

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Hypatia , Volume 35 , Special Issue 1: Indigenizing and Decolonizing Feminist Philosophy , Winter 2020 , pp. 75 - 96
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