Scales of resistance : indigenous women's transborder activism / Maylei Blackwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackwell, Maylei, 1969- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Political activity.

Mexican American women.

Indigenous women--Political activity--Mexico.

Indigenous women.

Women political activists--Mexico.

Women political activists.

Women political activists--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 357 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"In Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women's activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on over seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance. Blackwell shows how activists in Mexico and those in the migrant stream that runs from Oaxaca into California redefined women's roles in community decision making. They did so by scaling down Indigenous autonomy to their own bodies, homes, and communities, grounding their political claims within Indigenous epistemologies and the gendered nature of social organization, and scaling up to regional, national, and continental contexts. This allowed them to place themselves at the heart of Indigenous resistance and autonomy, decolonizing gender hierarchies and creating new scales of participation. Blackwell reveals the importance of moving across different types of scale and contrasting colonial divisions of scale itself with Indigenous conceptions of scale, space, solidarity, and connection"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Practice of Autonomy: Indigenous Women's Multiscalar Organizing in Mexico

Abiayala as Scale: Indigenous Women's Organizing in the Americas

Rebellion at the Roots: Place-based Activism Interweaving the Local

Geographies of Difference: Transborder Organizing and Indigenous Women's Activism

Geographies of Indigeneity: Indigenous Migrant Women's Organizing and Translocal Politics of Place

The Subterranean Life of Seeds.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Blackwell, Maylei, 1969- Scales of resistance.

ISBN:

9781478022602

1478022604

9781478092742

1478092742

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.