Feminist Political Subjectivities: Corporeality, Spaces, and Transnationalism (Phase 1)

This doctoral research project focuses on analyzing feminist political subjectivities in Quito, restructuring the approach toward body performativity as a central analytical category. The study addresses the fragmentation and heterogeneity of Quito feminisms, manifested in public actions such as marches, performances, and virtual activism, adopting a decolonial perspective that positions Latin American feminists as knowledge producers. Emblematic cases like the SlutWalk and the Ni una Menos March are examined, which highlight the need to move beyond the traditional concept of a social movement to understand thematic articulations and the intersectionality of oppressions. The project seeks to make visible a feminism of the margins, inclusive of historically excluded subjects (indigenous women, sex workers, trans women), critically analyzing the discourses and practices converging within these collectives. A key dimension is spatiality, investigating the deterritorialization and reterritorialization of feminist discourses across transnational, local, and corporal-experiential scales, with the latter dimension being specifically addressed during the project year.<br/><br/><b>Goal</b>: <br/>The main objective of the project is to analyze how feminist subjectivities and spaces are co-constituted through the performativity of bodies within feminist groups in the city of Quito. This aims to understand socio-spatial practices, the spatiality that frames them, and the resulting subjectivities, focusing on the diversity and articulations of local feminisms.<br/><br/><b>Research lines</b>: <br/>Political, social and community psychology