Multi-history and Construction of Methodologies in Brazilian Cyberfeminist Collectives

• In Event: Latin American Entanglements of Gender, Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, Coloniality - II

Abstract

This paper refers to an on going research on feminist and technology field. Beyond utopic and distopic visions, individuals and feminist collectives have been working on building news ways to produce and share knowledge from tech fields to non-scholar women. Trough the etnographic method, observation participant in workshops and trainings, mapping of cyberfeminists Latam groups, and interviews with the digital security and feminist trainers, this paper shows a partial amount of the cosmologies built in some brazilians cyberfeminist groups, that also aims to promote women in technology.
This study explores the techno-scientific journey materialized and established in the post-Second World War context, the chemical and nuclear war, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Cold War. Human and non-human bodies shattered by the streets, burned, forgotten, aimless. The impact of the use of nuclear weapons is still not well resolved: devastated and abandoned cities, and the aftermath with lives impacted by diseases derived from the use of such weapons. The techno-scientific production of the space race is thus, navigating between utopian and dystopian glimpses: a promise of a better and more beautiful world, in the case this world is destroyed, by accident or greed. Technoscience emerges in this scenario as a knowledge that doesn’t bet on the neutrality of science or technology, but recognizes the existence of context, social sciences, and society. With the perception of the partial truths, some activist groups investigated on this research, and especially feminist groups, locate the need to create their own narrative production space, that are argued here.

Author

• Narrira Lemos de Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro