“Despartares Decoloniales”: The Implications of “Territorio Cuerpo-Tierra” for Studying Women's Embodied Resilience to Trauma in El Salvador, Central America

We explore the implications of the concept of <i>territorio cuerpo-tierra</i> for conducting research on women's resilience to trauma and post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery in El Salvador, Central America. <i>Cuerpo-territorio</i> forces a reconceptualization of women's realities as bound to the embodiment of the geo-politics of gender, body, and land as territories, and thus, their realities as bound to the histories and temporality of those as territories. Through a series of <i>despartares decoloniales</i> (decolonial awakenings), we postulate that resilience research reproduces narrowly defined understanding of women's realities and responses to both the symbolic and physical conditions and adversities of their lives.