Neoliberal capitalism, inequalities and resistances from the 'margin'

Abstract

This article is based on a critique of the processes of subjectivation/subjection within the framework of neoliberal capitalist societies, where discursive mechanisms play a central role. In this sense, the article proposes an eccentric discursive position as an alternative to subvert the dichotomous, binary, and hierarchical logic that underlies hegemonic discourse parameters. It is argued that discourses positioned from the margins are powerful in destabilizing normalizing discourses with sexist, elitist, and empowering biases, in favor of a subject who is multiple, contradictory, dissident, and another.

Likewise, the article seeks to examine the epistemological and theoretical-political contributions of narratives around lived experiences, demonstrating that this notion, along with that of situated knowledge, outlines the broad strokes of intersectional perspectives in which an epistemic rupture occurs with obsolete, monolithic, and homogeneous ways of seeing reality. According to the hypothesis developed in the article, this position is an alternative that overcomes unidimensional, abstract, and ahistorical analyses.

Finally, after reconstructing the aforementioned proposals, the article evaluates how this intersectional perspective is present in the discussions and praxis of Latin American and Southern situated feminisms, where tensions between the reproduction of life and capital, resistance to the oppressions of an exclusionary system, and neoliberal political reactivism are unique and inescapable.