Sobre algumas das contribuições feministas ao conhecimento político: a política, o político e enquadramentos teóricos sobre a justiça social

Abstract

What does it means to say that there are feminist theories of social justice? Why it is important to call attention to the theoretical shift from issues of democracy to issues of social justice? What dimensions are involved in this shift? Why? What was or has been the role of feminist theory recently in this context? What is feminist political theory? What are the contributions of Western feminist political theory for reflections on Latin America? What are the feminist contributions for theories of social justice? Why theories of justice and not democratic theory? Some of the approaches used as guidelines hopefully are going to give us the answers and reflections comcerning these questions among others that are going to be objects of discussion. While the social and political reality explicitly expresses the various minorities demanded for social justice, through the political institutions, theorists feel compelled and committed to theorize within the complexity and multidimensionality of this agenda since that any contemporary political confrontation is embraced by social debt incurred by the liberal democratic state. This dissertation reflects this reality and aims to expose the reframing and alternative ways of theorizing about social justice within political theories and their interfaces with issues on discussion about politics and the political. The central perspective of the discussion is done by feminists, who while addressing criticism on the main topics, authors and concepts within the field of political knowledge, they also seek to develop new models and theoretical frameworks highlighting the masculinist, elitist, racist, heteronormativist theories that were (and to some extent, still are) central to the field of political knowledge. The logic of the dissertation continues, through the chapters, with deslocations that are not one-way direction shifts, but theoretical and conceptual discussions that disarticulate and follow two-way shifts: from the mainstream (or male-stream) that characteizes the field of political knowledge to challenging theoretical projects and critics; from troubled relationship between knowledge and praxis to alternative processes of reconciliation between these fields; on politics to the political; from unitary to binary or complex theoretical models; and about global and universal to local and contingent issues. This work brings up discussions on politics, the political and theoretical frameworks of social justice through disputes in the field of political knowledge, the Western feminist political theory and the project of a feminist political theory in Latin America.