Women, Diaspora, and the Decolonial Reconfiguration of Power

Women, Diaspora, and the Decolonial Reconfiguration of Power departs from the awareness that the discourse of decolonization would lose its critical depth if it fails to consider women as a significant part of the colonial and postcolonial power relations. Within a global context that still shaped by the enduring impact of coloniality, women experience oppression not only as colonized subjects but also as subordinated subjects within patriarchal systems sustained by the coloniality of knowledge. The experience of diaspora also reveals that women’s identities are never static. That issue highlights that they are constantly negotiated through cultural hybridity that reshapes the boundaries of power and meaning. Therefore, a decolonial reading that centered on women and the diaspora becomes crucial issue to reveal how power operates in layered and intertwined ways.