Multiple injustices indigenous women, law, and political struggle in Latin America
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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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The University of Arizona Press
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Critical issues in indigenous studies
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 330 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780816532490 978-0-8165-3249-0 |