This book is above all a commitment to encounter. Is the result of the labor of the Working Group (Grupo de Trabajo) of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), which brings together people who study and research, but who, above all, carry out collective actions from social organizations to transform the reality of our continent. This character of thinking doing, or rather, of doing thinking, of the Grupo de Trabajo gives this text a peculiar cadence. A cadence that demands a collective and cooperative authorship. It is also a recovery of the struggles that precede us, the sutures of the loom of memory that patriarchal and colonial capitalism strives to pierce, and that is another of the powers of this book. The book invites to dismantle the patriarchal and colonial legacies embedded in the very foundations of hegemonic academic thought, and demonstrates the urgent need to understand this as a political task of the moment. It is organized into three main stations, which, like a train journey, can be travelled through sequentially from beginning to end, or entered randomly, stopping at one or another section according to the interests and concerns of the moment.

The volume’s contributors are Alicia Migliaro Gonzaìlez, Ana Luciìa Ramazzini, Colectivo Magdalenas Uruguay—Teatro de las oprimidas, Cristina Cucuriì, Cristina Vega, Delmy Tania Cruz Hernaìndez, Dina Mazariegos Garciìa, Elvira Cuadra Lira, Eva Vaìzquez, Gabriela Ruales, Gabriela Veras Iglesias, Giulia Marchese, InÞigo Arrazola, Ivonne Yaìnez, Jonatan Rodas, Juliana Diìaz Lozano, Lisset Coba, Lorena Rodriìguez Lezica, Manuel Bayoìn, Mariano Feìliz, Mauricio Arellano Nucamendi, Melissa Moreano, Miriam Garciìa-Torres, Miriam Lang, Rosa H.G. Govela Gutieìrrez (†), Rossana Cantieri Cagnone, Sofiìa Zaragocin, and Walda Barrios-Klee (†). Rosa Govela Gutiérrez and Walda Barrios-Klee died while the book was being edited.

Delmy Tania Cruz Hernández, studied PhD in Social Anthropology in Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology and studied her MA in Gender Studies in Quito (Ecuador). Currently collaborates at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Chiapas and the Southern Border at UNAM. She coordinates the working group Bodies, Territories and Feminisms of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). She is member of Colectivo Miradas Críticas del Territorio desde el Feminismo and is co-founder of the community-based environmental organization no gubernamental (Women Transforming Worlds) based in Chiapas. In 2021 she coordinated the publication of the book Frontiers and Bodies against the Capital. Feminist and popular insurgencies in Abya Yala. Her papers have been published by, among other outlets Geo Pautas, Eutopía UNAM, Journal of Latin American Psychosocial Studies, Ecología Política

Manuel Bayón did his PhD in Leipzig University and his MA in Urban Studies in Quito (Ecuador). Since 2019 he is the coordinator of Contested Territories Amazonía at FLACSO University in Ecuador. Previously, worked at CENEDET and Acción Ecológica. He is member of the Colectivo Miradas Críticas del Territorio desde el Feminismo and Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador. His previous books include La Selva de los Elefantes Blancos, El Yasuní en medio del derrumbe petrolero global y Geografía crítica para detener el despojo de los territorios. His papers have been published in Journals such as Antipode, GeoForum, Ecología Política, Geografía Norte Grande, International Journal of Geo-Information, Journal of Latin American Geography, Environment and Planning D Society and Space, Human Geography.