Demanding justice and security : indigenous women and legal pluralities in Latin America / edited by Rachel Sieder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sieder, Rachel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women--Legal status, laws, etc--Latin America.

Indian women.

Indian women--Latin America--Social conditions.

Indian women--Political activity--Latin America.

Indian women activists--Latin America.

Indian women activists.

Indian women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indian women--Political activity.

Indian women--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

viii, 299 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions of what justice and security mean within their own contexts and struggles. They have challenged racism and the exclusion of indigenous people in national reforms, but also have challenged 'bad customs' and gender ideologies that exclude women within their own communities. Featuring chapters on Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico, the contributors to Demanding Justice and Security include both leading researchers and community activists. From Kichwa women in Ecuador lobbying for the inclusion of specific clauses in the national constitution that guarantee their rights to equality and protection within indigenous community law, to Me'phaa women from Guerrero, Mexico, battling to secure justice within the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations committed in the context of militarizing their home state, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to understand the struggle of indigenous women in Latin America"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Preface

Introduction Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America: Demanding Justice and Security

Rachel Sieder

Part I Gender and Justice

Between State Law and International Norms

Chapter 1 Between Community Justice and International Litigation: The Case of Ines Fernandez before the Inter-American Court

Rosalva Aída Hernandez Castillo

Chapter 2 Domestic Violence and Access to Justice: The Political Dilemma of the Cuetzalan Indigenous Women's Home (CAMI)

Adriana Terven Salinas

Chapter 3 Between Participation and Violence: Gender Justice and Neoliberal Government in Chichicastenango, Guatemala

Part II Indigenous Autonomies and Struggles for Gender Justice

Chapter 4 Indigenous Autonomies and Gender Justice: Women's Dispute for Security and Rights in Guerrero, Mexico

María Teresa Sierra

Chapter 5 Gender Inequality, Indigenous Justice, and the Intercultural State: The Case of Chimborazo, Ecuador

Emma Cervone y Cristina Cucuri

Chapter 6 Let Us Walk Together": Chachawarmi [Male-Female] Complementarity and Indigenous Autonomies in Bolivia

Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt

Chapter 7 Participate, Make Visible, Propose: The Wager of Indigenous Women in the Organizational Process of the Regional Indigenous Council of the Cauca (CRIC)

Leonor Lozano

Part III Women's Alternatives in the Face of Racism and Dispossession

Chapter 8 Voices within Silences: Indigenous Women, Security, and Rights in the Mountain Region of Guerrero

Mariana Mora

Chapter 9 Grievances and Crevices of Resistance: Maya Women Defy Goldcorp

Morna Macleod

Chapter 10 Intersectional Violence: Triqui Women Confront Racism, the State, and Male Leadership

Natalia De Marinis

Part IV Methodological Perspectives

Chapter 11 Methodological Routes: Toward a Critical and Collaborative Legal Anthropology

Rosalva Aída Hernandez Castillo and Adriana Terven

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813587936

081358793X

9780813587929

0813587921

OCLC:

959260242