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

"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...

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Otros Autores: Sieder, Rachel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction. Demanding Justice and Security: Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America; Part One: Gender and Justice: Mediating State Law and International Norms; 1. Between Community Justice and International Litigation: The Case of Ines Fernández before the Inter-American Court; 2. Domestic Violence and Access to Justice: The Political Dilemma of the Cuetzalan Indigenous Women's Home (CAMI); 3. Between Participation and Violence: Gender Justice and Neoliberal Government in Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
  • Part Two: Indigenous Autonomies and Strugglesfor Gender Justice4. Indigenous Autonomies and Gender Justice: Women Dispute Security and Rights in Guerrero, Mexico; 5. Gender Inequality, Indigenous Justice, and the Intercultural State: The Case of Chimborazo, Ecuador; 6. "Let Us Walk Together": Chachawarmi Complementarity and Indigenous Autonomies in Bolivia; 7. Participate, Make Visible, Propose: The Wager of Indigenous Women in the Organizational Process of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC); Part Three: Women's Alternatives in the Face of Racism and Dispossession.
  • 8. Voices within Silences: Indigenous Women, Security, and Rights in the Mountain Region of Guerrero9. Grievances and Crevices of Resistance: Maya Women Defy Goldcorp; 10. Intersectional Violence: Triqui Women Confront Racism, the State, and Male Leadership; Part Four: Methodological Perspectives; 11. Methodological Routes: Toward a Critical and Collaborative Legal Anthropology; Notes on Contributors; Index.