Domestic Workers: Postcolonial Inheritance and International Relations

Abstract The discipline of International Relations (IR) in Latin American is still dominated by positivist and Westernized research. This creates challenges for international studies such as how to visualise the subjects or ‘sujetas’ who participate in national and international politics but are ign...

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Veröffentlicht in:Contexto internacional 2022, Vol.44 (2)
1. Verfasser: Pozo, Karen Johanna
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract The discipline of International Relations (IR) in Latin American is still dominated by positivist and Westernized research. This creates challenges for international studies such as how to visualise the subjects or ‘sujetas’ who participate in national and international politics but are ignored in this field, and how to value the current postcolonial research, which offers critical perspectives that equilibrate the epistemic balance and help build adequate tools to understand different regional phenomena. By analysing a case study of the Association of Women Domestic Employees of Paraguay, this article clarifies how a postcolonial approach enriches the field of IR. This study argues that postcolonialism contributes to this field by making visible cognitive subjects and ‘sujetas’, who offer an alternative knowledge construction to rethink international relations with a meta-theoretical extension, visible. Postcolonialism is the theoretical basis of this qualitative research. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observations. This article suggests and concludes that women domestic workers as ‘political subjects’ enrich international relations by offering critical views to the research carried out in the subfields of foreign policy analysis, international political economy, and regionalism. Resumo A disciplina das relações internacionais na América Latina ainda é dominada por pesquisas positivistas e ocidentalizadas, o que gera desafios para os estudos internacionais, tais como visualizar os sujeitos ou ‘sujetas’ que participam da política nacional e internacional, mas que são ignorados nesse campo, e como valorizar o pós-colonial atual, que oferece perspectivas críticas que equilibram o equilíbrio epistêmico e ajudam a construir ferramentas adequadas para compreender diferentes fenômenos regionais. Este artigo esclarece como uma abordagem pós-colonial enriquece o campo das relações internacionais, por meio de um estudo de caso da Associação de Mulheres Empregadas Domésticas do Paraguai. Argumenta-se que o pós-colonialismo contribui para esse campo ao tornar visíveis sujeitos cognitivos e ‘sujetas’, que oferecem uma alternativa de construção de conhecimento para repensar as relações internacionais com extensão metateórica. O pós-colonialismo é a base teórica desta pesquisa qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas e observações participantes. O estudo conduzido neste artigo constat
ISSN:0102-8529
1982-0240
1982-0240
DOI:10.1590/s0102-8529.20224402e20200132