Cultural studies and postcolonial feminist thought

The polysemy of the concept culture makes difficult to operationalize it when analyzing discursive material about power dynamics of gender relations.
Culture is heritage, inheritance.

Epistemological failures as an important layer of oppression.
"Highlighting the patterns of suppression and the corresponding impact of rendering black feminist though easily dismissed" (Dotson, 2015: 2323) mean placing black feminist thought in the focus or analysis.

"For Collins (2009: 302-305), engaging in epistemology is necessary for empowerment, particularly with respect to the operations of hegemonic power." ((Dotson, 2015: 2324)

Rosana Paulino, Embroideries, 1997.

"Hegemonic power, for Collins (2009: 302), 'aims to justify practices' in structural, disciplinary, and interpersonal domains of power." (Dotson, 2015: 2324) 

References:

Collins, Patricia Hill. 2009. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the

Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge Classics.

Dotson, Kristie (2015) "Inheriting Patricia Hill Collins's Black Feminist epistemology", Ethnic and Racial Studies,  38:13, 2322-2328, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1058496. 

Symposium of the CEINAV at European Conference on Domestic Violence, Belfast 2015

Liz Kelly, Rita Lopez, Bianca Graffe and Vlasta Jalusic present the research of CEINAV in the Belfast European Conference on Domestic Violence.
In this symposium, preliminar findings of the CEINAV were presented, giving special attention to the research questions of the Project, that is the ways cultural encounters play out in ethics, justice and citizenship.

Although CEINAV focus on three forms of violence — domestic violence against women, child abuse and neglect and trafficking for sexual exploitation, the symposium was centred on domestic violence intervention in the forth countries involved in CEINAV: Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal and Slovenia.
Cultural encounters were approached with a methodology based on focus groups with professionals from several areas who were asked about the sequence of intervention and the specificities of intervention with survivors belonging to ethnic minorities groups.
The research of CEINAV can be followed at the blog http://ceinav-jrp.blogspot.pt/ as well as in the site http://www.fpce.up.pt/love_fear_power/ceinav/ceinav_eng.html