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Panel 4: Subalternity and Epistemic Violence

Gender, sexuality and race have been used as distinctive categories to create hierarchical power structures in transnational contexts since the Early Modern Age. They appear to be particularly performative through discourses, laws or images in colonial, imperial and neo-colonial settings, when European standards of equality or inequality are imposed upon existing social structures. The three contributions to the panel will explore the creation of subalternity alongside the categories of gender, sexuality and race, and therewith discuss particular forms of epistemic violence in different historical periods: in the late 16th century, the early 20th century and today.