ISBN:
9780816532490
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 330 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Critical issues in indigenous studies
DDC:
305.48/898
Keywords:
Indian women Social conditions
;
Indian women Legal status, laws, etc
;
Indian women Political activity
;
Indian women activists
;
Mesoamerika
;
Indigene Frau
;
Recht
;
Politik
;
Ungerechtigkeit
Abstract:
Draws together over two decades of research by the author into activism and legal pluralism as practiced and understood by Indigenous women in Latin American countries, analyzing the struggles of indigenous women in Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia to secure justice and equal rights. The ethnographic approach taken in the book analyzes activism and legal pluralism at the local, state, and international scales and synthesizes the author's experiences interacting with activists at those different levels. The manuscript draws on critical discourse and feminist theories to address the tensions and struggles indigenous women activists face in Latin America
Abstract:
Introduction -- chapter 1. Activist research on justice and indigenous womenś rights -- chapter 2. Multiple dialogues and struggles for justice: political genealogies of indigenous women -- chapter 3. Indigenous justices: new spaces of struggle for women -- chapter 4. From victims to human rights defenders, international litigation and the struggle for justice of indigenous women -- chapter 5. From the multicultural state to the penal state: incarcerated indigenous women and the criminalization of poverty -- Final thoughts -- Appendix 1. Case of Inés Fernández vs México official expertise anthropological report -- Appendix 2. From the life histories workshop at Atlacholoaya, Morelos -- Appendix 3. From bitácoras del destierro narrativa de mujeres en prisión -- Appendix 4. From divinas ausentes. Antología poética de mujeres en reclusión 'La malquerida/The unloved.' -- Appendix 5. Legal files of indigenous women prisoners in Morelos and Puebla
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index
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