Women-Witches and Nature: Spells to Re-Exist and Resist

Abstract

We present a theoretical review on the relationship women-witches, nature, re-existences and afro-diasporic resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the face of the modern/colonial division between the human and the non-human. We problematize the various forms of violence and discrimination against subalternized women, in particular those called "witches"; also the modern/colonial epistemic silencing of other knowledge. The axes of interpretation, constructed as emerging categories of the qualitative analysis, deal with the persecution of women-witches and capitalism, the relationship with nature and, the decolonial resistance of women in the afrodiaspora The challenge for Psychology is to decolonize the way of understanding nature and propose research capable of approaching other interpretations of the world, other ways of knowing, being and existing, such as those of women-witches. His relationship with nature does not follow the modern, dual, patriarchal and capitalist ontology; on the contrary, plants, animals, minerals, entities and divinities configure their daily life, their re-existence and resistance.

Witches; Capitalism; Coloniality/decoloniality; Nature; Psychology