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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Arteaga Böhrt, Ana Cecilia,; Cervone, Emma,; Cucurí, Cristina,; De Marinis, Natalia,; Hernández Castillo, Rosalva Aída,; Lozano Suárez, Leonor,; Macleod, Morna,; Mora, Mariana,; Sieder, Rachel,; Sierra, María Teresa,; Terven Salinas, Adriana,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bohrt, Ana Cecilia Arteaga; Castillo, Rosalva Aida Hernandez; Cervone, Emma; Cucuri, Cristina; Lozano, Leonor; Macleod, Morna; Marinis, Natalia De; Mora, Mariana; Salinas, Adriana Terven; Sieder, Rachel; Sierra, Maria Teresa
• HerausgeberIn: Sieder, Rachel,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (310 p.) :; 2 figures, 1 table

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 Inés 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 Struggles for Gender Justice -- 4. 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 Guerrero -- 9. 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