Queer Chicana/Latina Feminisms, World-Making and Latinx Geographies
Una Plática entre Nosotras
Keywords:
queer Chicana/Latina feminisms, world-making, Latinx geographies, feminist methodology, pláticas, communityAbstract
This paper explores how pláticas can serve as a critical Chicanx/Latinx feminist methodology in geography, not only informing the research we do, but how we teach, mentor, organize and sustain ourselves in relation to our communities. Bridging Chicana/Latina feminist theory and feminist geographies literature, we provide a context for our plática, share our academic journeys, and delve into Lorena Muñoz’ path-breaking contributions spatializing queer Chicana/Latina feminisms, theorizing Latinx world-making, and advancing the subdiscipline of Latinx geographies. We consider how pláticas incite possibilities for fostering more caring, equitable relationships inside and outside the academy.
References
Añorve Zapara, Eduardo. 2011. Los Hijos del Machomula. Chilpancingo de Los Bravos, Mexico: Edición del autor.
Anzaldúa, Gloria. 2007. Borderlands/La frontera: The new mestiza (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.
Brady, Mary Pat. 2002. Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space. Durham: Duke University Press.
Cabnal, Lorena. 2010. Acercamiento a la construcción de la propuesta de pensamiento epistémico de las mujeres indígenas feministas comunitarias de Abya Yala. Feminismos Diversos: El Feminismo Comunitario: 11–25.
Cahuas, Madelaine C. 2023. “Building a Holistic Intersectional Feminist Praxis in Geography: Lessons from Community,” The Professional Geographer 75 (4): 648–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2022.2061536
Cahuas, Madelaine C. 2022. “Voicing Chicanx/Latinx feminisms and situating testimonio in geographical research,” Gender, Place and Culture 29 (11): 1514-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2021.1987199
Caretta, Martina Angela, and Caroline V. Faria. 2020. “Time and Care in the ‘Lab’ and the ‘Field’: Slow Mentoring and Feminist Research in Geography,” Geographical Review 110 (1–2): 172–82.
Chlala, Robert. 2020. “Misfit medicine and queer geographies: The diverse economy and politics of cannabis in carceral Los Angeles,” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38 (7-8): 1180-1197.
Costa Vargas, João H. 2008. Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Cusicanqui, Silvia Rivera. 2012. “Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization,” The South Atlantic Quarterly 111(1): 95-109.
DasGupta, Debanuj, Rae Rosenberg, John Paul Catungal, and Jen Jack Gieseking. 2021. “Pedagogies of Queer and Trans Repair: Letters from Queer Geographic Classrooms,” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 20(5): 491-508.
Espinosa-Miñoso, Yuderkys, María Lugones, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres, eds. 2022. Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala: Caribbean, Meso and South American Contributions and Challenges. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Espinoza, Dionna, María Eugenia Cotera, and Maylei Blackwell, eds. 2018. Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Feminism and Activism in the Movement Era. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Faiver-Serna, Cristina. 2019. “Juntxs/Together: Building Latinx Geographies,” Society and Space Magazine. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/juntxs-together-building-latinx-geographies
Falcón, Sylvanna M. 2016. “Transnational Feminism as a Paradigm for Decolonizing the Practice of Research: Identifying Feminist Principles and Methodology Criteria for US-Based Scholars,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 37 (1): 174-94.
Faria, Caroline, Bisola Falola, Jane Henderson, and Rebecca Maria Torres. 2019. “A Long Way to Go: Collective Paths to Racial Justice in Geography,” The Professional Geographer 71 (2): 364–76.
Fierros, Cindy, O., and Dolores Delgado Bernal. 2016. “Vamos a platicar: The Contours of Pláticas as Chicana/Latina Feminist Methodology,” Chicana/Latina Studies 15 (2): 98-121.
Flores Carmona, Judith, Manal Hamzeh, Cynthia Bejarano, M. Eugenia Hernández Sánchez, and Yvonne Pilar El Ashmawi. 2018. “Pláticas~testimonios: Practicing methodological borderlands for solidarity and resilience in academia,” Chicana/Latina Studies 18 (1): 30–52.
Flores Carmona, Judith, Manal Hamzeh, Dolores Delgado Bernal and Ifham Hassan Zareer. 2021. “Theorizing knowledge with pláticas: Moving toward transformative qualitative inquiries,” Qualitative Inquiry 27 (10): 1213-20.
García-Peña, Lorgia. 2022. Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
Gonzalez, Ángel De Jesus, Roberto C. Orozco, and Sergio A. Gonzalez. 2023. “Joteando y Mariconadas: Theorizing Queer Pláticas for Queer and/or Trans Latinx/a/o Research, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 36 (9): 1741–56.
Hampton, Lynn, and Sylvia Mendoza Aviña. 2023. “Chicana/Latina Feminista Plática Methodology as a Praxis of Solidarity for Black Women and Women of Color Contingent Faculty at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI),” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 36 (9): 1769–80.
Hamzeh, Manal, Judith Flores Carmona, Ma. Eugenia Hernández Sánchez, Dolores Delgado Bernal, and Cynthia Bejarano. 2020. “Haki/Pláticas ∼ Testimonios/Shahadat: Arabyya Feminista Decolonial Praxis,” Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 17 (3): 250–65.
Hannegan-Martinez, Sharim. 2023. “Pláticas as a Methodological Praxis of Love,” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 36 (9): 1702–13.
Haritaworn, Jin. 2022. “From the kitchen table to the streets: Queer of Colour Reflections on Racial Capitalism,” Kvinder, Køn & Forskning 33(1): 81–86.
Hernández Cuevas, Marco P. 2004. African Mexicans and the Discourse on Modern Nation. Lanham: University Press of America.
Hidalgo, Leigh-Anna. 2022.“‘Show them how they treat us’: Legal violence in the everyday lives of street vendors,” Latino Studies 20: 194–218.
Kohl, Ellen and Priscilla McCutcheon. 2015. “Kitchen table reflexivity: Negotiating positionality through everyday talk,” Gender, Place & Culture 22 (6): 747–63.
Lander, Edgardo. 2000. “Eurocentrism and Colonialism in Latin American Social Thought,” Nepantla: Views from South 1 (3): 519-32.
Latinx Geographies Collective, Madelaine Cristina Cahuas, Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes, Cristina Faiver-Serna, Yolanda González Mendoza, Diego Martinez-Lugo, and Margaret Marietta Ramírez. 2023. “Latinx Geographies: Opening Conversations,” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 22 (6):1462-89. https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/2286.
Lopez, Ceci, and Dolores Calderón. 2023. “Remembering Cafecito and Other Practices for Resiliency and Survival in the Academy,” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 36 (9): 1675–88.
Mata-Villalta, Cindy. 2023. “Reclaiming Our Stories Con Pláticas y Fotos: Pláticas as Pedagogy in K-12 History Classrooms,” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 36 (9): 1689–1701.
McKittrick, Katherine. 2021. Dear Science and Other Stories. Durham: Duke University Press.
Menjívar, Cecilia and Leisy Abrego. 2012. “Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central American Immigrants,” American Journal of Sociology 117 (5): 1380-1421.
Manzi, Maya, Diana Ojeda and Roberta Hawkins. 2019. “‘Enough Wandering Around!’: Life Trajectories, Mobility, and Place Making in Neoliberal Academia,” The Professional Geographer 71(2): 355-63.
Morales, Socorro, Alma Itzé Flores, Tanya J. Gaxiola Serrano, and Dolores Delgado Bernal. 2023. “Feminista Pláticas as a Methodological Disruption: Drawing upon Embodied Knowledge, Vulnerability, Healing, and Resistance,” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 36 (9): 1631-43.
Moreno-Tabarez, Ulises. 2020. “Towards Afro-Indigenous Ecopolitics: Addressing Ecological Devastation in Costa Chica,” City 24 (1–2): 22–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739912.
Moreno Vega, Marta, Alba Marinieves, and Yvette Modestin, eds. 2012. Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora. Houston: Arte Público Press.
Mountz, Alison, Anne Bonds, Becky Mansfield, Jenna Loyd, Jennifer Hyndman, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Ranu Basu, Risa Whitson, Roberta Hawkins, Trina Hamilton and Winifred Curran. 2015. “For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University,” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 14 (4): 1235-59.
Mullings, Beverley, and Sanjukta Mukherjee. 2018. “Reflections on Mentoring as Decolonial, Transnational, Feminist Praxis,” Gender, Place & Culture 25 (10): 1405–22.
Muñoz, José Esteban. 1999. Disidentifications. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Muñoz, Lorena. 2023a. “Queering the (In)Formal Economy: Spatial Recovery and Anti-Vending Local Policies in the Global South,” World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 17(4): 1-6.
Muñoz, Lorena. 2023b. “Queer Latinx Worldmakings: geographies of food, love and familia in prison,” Social & Cultural Geography DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2023.2268580
Muñoz, Lorena. 2018a. “Tianguis as a Possibility of Autogestion: Street Vendors Claim Rights to the City in Cancún, Mexico,” Space and Culture 21 (3): 306-21.
Muñoz, Lorena. 2018b. “Recovering public space and race: Afro-Colombian street vendors in Bogotá, Colombia,” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36 (4): 576-88.
Muñoz, Lorena. 2016a. “Bar Tasco: Latina immigrant vendors’ mestiza consciousness,” Chicana/Latina Studies 16 (1): 103-30.
Muñoz, Lorena. 2016b. “Entangled Sidewalks: Queer Street Vendors in Los Angeles,” Professional Geographer 68 (2): 302–8.
Muñoz, Lorena. 2010. Brown, Queer and Gendered: Queering the Latina/o ‘Street-Scapes.’ In Queer Methods and Methodologies, edited by Kath Browne and Catherine J. Nash, 55-68. Abingdon: Routledge.
Muñoz, Lorena and Megan Ybarra. 2019. “Latinx Geographies,” Society and Space Magazine. https://www.societyandspace.org/forums/latinx-geographies.
Nagar, Richa. 2014. Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Nagar, Richa, and Susan Geiger. 2007. Reflexivity and positionality in feminist fieldwork revisited. In Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, edited by Adam Tickell, Eric Sheppard, Jamie Peck and Trevor Barnes, 267-278. London: Sage.
Nast, Heidi. 1994. “Women in the Field: Critical Feminist Methodologies and Theoretical Perspectives,” Professional Geographer 46 (1): 54-66.
Neusner, Julia, Kennji Kizuka, Eleanor Acer. 2022. “Human rights stain, public health farce,” Human Rights First. https://humanrightsfirst.org/library/human-rights-stain-public-health-farce/
Pelaez, Lopez, ed. 2023. When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Pelaez Lopez, Alan, “The X in Latinx is a Wound, not a trend,” Color Bloq (blog), September 2018, https://www.colorbloq.org/article/the-x-in-latinx-is-a-wound-not-a-trend
Pérez Huber, Lindsay. 2009. “Disrupting apartheid of knowledge: testimonio as methodology in Latina/o critical race research in education,” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 22 (6): 639-54.
Puente, Mayra, and Verónica N. Vélez. 2023. “Platicando y Mapeando: A Chicana/Latina Feminist GIS Methodology in Educational Research,” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 36 (9): 1659–74.
Pulido, Laura. 2002. “Reflections on a white discipline,” The Professional Geographer 54 (1): 42–49.
Pulido, Laura. 2008. “Frequently (Un)Asked Questions about Being a Scholar Activist.” In Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship edited by Charles R. Hale, 341-365. Berkeley: UC Press.
Rose, Gillian. 1997. “Situating knowledges: positionality, reflexivities and other tactics,” Progress in Human Geography 21: 305-20.
Routledge, Paul and Kate Driscoll Derickson. 2015. “Situated solidarities and the practice of scholar-activism,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33 (3): 391–407.
Sanders, Rickie. 2006. “Social Justice and Women of Color in Geography: Philosophical Musings, Trying Again,” Gender, Place & Culture 13 (1): 49–55.
Sandoval, Edgar. 2018. “More than violence: UndocuQueers’ narratives of disidentification and world-making in Seattle, Washington, USA,” Gender, Place & Culture 25(12): 1759-80.
Varela Huerta, Itza A. 2019. “Nunca má un México sin nosotras: Feminismo y mujeres Afromexicanas,” Política y Cultura 51, 105-24.
Webster, Natasha, and Meighan Boyd. 2019. “Exploring the Importance of Inter-Departmental Women’s Friendship in Geography as Resistance in the Neoliberal Academy,” Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 101 (1): 44–55.
Zaragocin, Sofia. 2021. “Feminist futurities: LatinX geographies and Latin American decolonial feminist geographies,” Gender, Place & Culture 30 (4): 588-95.
Zaragocin, Sofia Carvajal, Margaret Marietta Ramírez, Maria Alexandra García, and Yolanda González Mendoza. 2022. “LatinX and Latin American Geographies: A Dialogue,” Antipode. https://antipodeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/LatinX-and-Latin-American-Geographies_A-Dialogue.pdf.
Zuroski, Eugenia. 2020. “‘Where do you know from?’ An exercise in placing ourselves together in the classroom,” MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. https://maifeminism.com/where-do-you-know-from-an-exercise-in-placing-ourselves-together-in-the-classroom/
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Madelaine Cahuas, Lorena Muñoz
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors agree to publish their articles in ACME under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-
