«Aguantar⇦» hibrid cultural agency in gender conflicts within african transnational marriages

Abstract

The hegemonic theoretical paradigm that dominates studies on gender violence establishes that the ultimate cause of this violence rest on inequality in power relations between women and men (Red2Red, 2011). Without denying a structural conception of gender violence, this article aims to address the case of transmigrants from sub-Saharan Africa in rural areas of Aragon, with the aim of demonstrating how Afrocentric feminisms can make visible other types of variables to explain of intimate partner violence (IPV). Through ethnographic fieldwork carried out in this area, we try to integrate the structural perspective of gender violence with the agency, resulting in hybridization processes where the emerging figure of «an experienced woman» becomes a possible strategy for the resolution of violence, a process that exemplifies the hybrid cultural agency of African societies.