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

    Rachel Sieder (Edited by), Rachel Sieder (Contributions by), Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo (Contributions by), Adriana Terven Salinas (Contributions by), Maria Teresa Sierra (Contributions by), Emma Cervone (Contributions by), Cristina Cucuri (Contributions by), Ana Cecilia Arteaga Bohrt (Contributions by), Leonor Lozano (Contributions by), Mariana Mora (Contributions by), Morna Macleod (Contributions by), Natalia De Marinis (Contributions by)

    9780813587936

    Hardback, published 16 June 2017

    310 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.562 kg

    “Demanding Justice and Security offers a panoramic view of Latin American indigenous women’s strategies for combating gendered violence and of creating constructive justice alternatives grounded in indigenous concepts of collective rights and autonomy. Beautifully written ethnography and crisp theory make this a particularly useful classroom book.”
     
    - Lynn Stephen (author of We are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements)
    "Demanding Justice and Security constitutes a milestone in the study of indigenous women’s organizing, understanding and engaging legal pluralities in Latin America. Drawing on rich fieldwork from Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala, the authors of this collaborative research-action experience have crafted an outstanding multi-sited ethnography of gender, violence, injustice and insecurity in these countries. This remarkable volume allows for a unique opportunity to consider structural violence and its comparative effects on the gendered body politic."
     
    - Pamela Calla (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University)
    "Demanding Justice and Security...brings into focus communities often overlooked in much of the research on political institutions, particularly in political science. An important contribution of this work is its emphasis on intersectionality: the ways that indigenous women negotiate multiple identities of class, gender, and ethnicity and their struggles to balance gender and ethnic claims."
    (Politics & Gender)

    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.
     

    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 InÉ
    s FernÁ
    ndez before the Inter-American Court
    Rosalva AÍ
    da HernÁ
    ndez 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
    Rachel Sieder

    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
    MarÍ
    a 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 BÖ
    hrt
    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 AÍ
    da HernÁ
    ndez Castillo and Adriana Terven

    Notes on Contributors
    Index

     
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