New content for eco-feminist and decolonised thinking. Beyond the silence on the taboo of incest

Abstract

Starting from the definition of Ecology by G. Bateson, up to those by D. Haraway and the recent transfeminism, can we test the degree of ecology and decolonization of our own thought? Do we have the ability to self-educate, to build new non-reductive, non-biologically biased cognitive structures, in order to conceive and actuate more equitable worlds? The theme of violence against women contains a sub-category almost never treated in Italian social, anthropological, pedagogical literature, but it seems an excellent testing ground for the aforementioned challenges: it is the taboo of incest, wrapped in its counter-taboo of silence, terror, unpreparedness. Let’s start talking about it through some ethnographic examples, since it is deep in our cultural, social, and relational construction.