ABSTRACT
When confronted with experiences of social struggles for land, women's lives and hope across the Global South/North divide, one of the common starting points in global politics in thinking about these struggles is capitalism as the dominant mode of production. Hope can be seen in the struggles for autonomy by Indigenous people and those of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, who are oriented towards a politics of dignity. Decolonial thinking has been recently contributed to an effort to understand social struggles in global politics. Maria Lugones' decolonial feminism acknowledges 'gender' as a key analytical category, but is engaged with its coloniality. Coloniality of power, a term originally coined by Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano, puts forward the idea that racialization was key for colonization. The coloniality of gender is then an invitation to consider 'gender' geo-historically as a colonial construct, and not a universal condition that existed before colonization.
