Subjetividades políticas y liderazgos femeninos: Un análisis desde el enfoque interseccional

Abstract

The academic work presented below reflects a concern for the investigation of political subjectivities and female leadership; aims to reflect on some key points around the dominant knowledge that has homogenized the construction of the political subject. In this way, it seeks to raise discussions around the difference that each woman experiences, giving way to the understanding of the complexity and heterogeneity of the subjects who have mobilized from different places to become politically, between the boundaries of what is instituted and what is instituting. . For this reason, it is proposed to analyze the processes of political subjectivation and leadership of women within the framework of intersectionality, in order to glimpse the relationships of privilege and oppression that the female subject establishes with the world to define its history; thus producing alternative ways of existing as a political subject. This, based on a methodological route that combines locations, particular contexts and biographical narrative spaces that gave the possibility of understanding the multiple ways in which political subjectivities are configured in women who become social, political and community leaders; thus understanding the processes of political subjectivation in plural, as a construction of diverse folds that underlie the margins of the “betweens” and the superpositions from which subjects adhere to or contravene the established social system that makes the constitution of the political subject unpredictable. female. Now, this document is organized into six sessions. The first chapter presents the context of the research, guided by the question that investigates the future of political subjectivities from the intersectional perspective; and five complementary questions about the sociopolitical participation of women in Colombian territory, the incidence of gender notions in the formation of the homogeneous political subject and the multiple leadership experiences that have given way to the deployment of other subjective meanings. In the second section, the contributions made by sixteen researchers to the categories of political subjectivity and female leadership are presented; highlighting the contributions and mistakes that have been made when using these categories. In fact, the third section conceptualizes political subjectivities from the intersectional perspective, glimpsing the construction of the subject on the margins of the “betweens” to present itself to the world based on the positions it occupies. Likewise, female leadership is exposed as a form of expression of the political subject. On the other hand, the fourth chapter includes the methodology that was proposed to be followed, the instrument used to collect information and the intersectional analysis strategy implemented. Consequently, the understanding and analysis of the interviews carried out with each leader are found in the fifth chapter. Finally, in the sixth section the conclusions are presented. These were aimed at provoking reflections on the role that emotions, territory, religion and gender devices play in the production of political subjectivities. All this, in order to provoke new paths in the investigation of the female political subject, which are outlined by the concerns that have emerged from this path that will begin to be recounted in the following lines.