Oppression, Resistance and Emancipation in María Lugones

Abstract

Lugones’s theory of oppression focuses on the need for the oppressed to cultivate a different logic of reality. The conditions that allow the emergence of a resistant consciousness rest on a pluralist ontology and on the idea of a multiple self-capable of traveling between «worlds». A key role in this theory is occupied by the space of limen. The limen constitutes a portal to liberation, but it does not guarantee its outcome. In fact, the political project of emancipation from the multiple oppressions requires the creation of coalitions. A goal that can only be achieved through complex communication, which abandons the liberal logic of transparency.