ABSTRACT
This article comments on the results of the project “Discourse and Colonial-Modern Gender System: Critical Literacy”, whose aim is to study the dialectical forms of discursive interaction, representation and identification in situated social practices that involve social gender issues. It considers the potential impacts of these interactive, representational and identification practices in processes of subjective agency; in social and interpersonal relationships; in policies regarding work, education and healthcare, among others. A theoretical-methodological dialogue between critical discourse studies and decolonial feminist studies was conducted using ethnographic-collaborative research on the social tensions and processes producing, reproducing and problematizing asymmetric power relations partially supported by colonial-modern system ideologies of social gender and intersectional political-cultural-identity categories: class, race, ethnicity, sexuality (models of affection, life production/power, etc.), spirituality, territoriality, temporality, and corporeality, among others. Based on this initial framework of feminist decolonial critical discourse studies, we can revisit theoretical and methodological aspects of critical discourse analysis in the field of research, according to the particular experience of each study and in light of the decolonial praxis, which is aimed at transforming colonial practices that have been legitimized by hegemonized representations of gender.
