Book review: Hernández Castillo, R. Aída (2016), Multiple InJustices: Indigenous Women, Law, and Political Struggle in Latin America (original) (raw)
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2017
This research aim at investigating the effectiveness of reparations within the Inter-American System of Human Rights; the focus of our attention is, in particular, the capacity of the reparatory measures awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to provide effective justice to indigenous women. Through the voices of some indigenous leaders, we had the chance to explore how the feminine principle, violence against women, justice, and power relations are conceived in some indigenous cosmovisions, Against this background, we delved into the rights, needs, and perspectives of indigenous women trying to determine to what extent they are included in the reparatory discourse developed by the Court: two case studies helped our analysis: Plan de Sánchez Massacre v. Guatemala and Rosendo Cantú et al. v. Mexico. These cases allowed us to assess the achievements and shortcomings of the reparation measures awarded by the Court, as well as to assess the degree to which an intersectional approach is used in the discourse and in the model of adjudication embraced by the Court. Our analysis demonstrates that even though a lot of work still needs to be done in order to attain effective justice for indigenous women, the judgment on the case of Rosendo Cantú v. Mexico represents a fundamental step forward in the jurisprudence and reasoning of the Court. 1.4 OAS Instruments: The American Convention on Human Rights and the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 1.4.1 American Convention on Human Rights 1.4.2 American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 1.4.3 The Challenges ahead CHAPTER 2: INDIGENOUS WOMEN, ANTHROPOLOGY AND LAW 2.1 Whose Culture? Cosmovisions and Indigenous Women 2.2 Indigenous Women and International Law 2.2.1 The UNDRIP and Indigenous Women: Shortcomings 2.3 Women's voices: An Indigenous Women Perspective on Cosmovision, Power Relations and Justice 2.3.
Indigenous autonomy and justice for latin american Indigenous women
2020
My paper deals with indigenous peoples’ rights, focusing on Latin American case-law related to gender issues. Latin American Courts have faced cases related to sexual crimes or domestic violence among indigenous people and have to choose between giving pre-eminence to women’s rights or indigenous autonomy. On deciding those cases, the tools provided by the proportionality test are paramount in order to analyse the case-law. The indigenous rights regimes (ILO-169, UNDRIP) may prevail or not against other human rights systems (which specially protect women or children) according to the facts of the case, but also according to domestic legal cultures modelled by the country’s historical evolution.
MATOS, Marlise & KAMBIWA, Avelin_RECENT CHANGES IN INDIGENOUS FEMINIST AGENDA IN LATIN AMERICA
Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South Advances in Gender Research, Volume 31, 103–121, 2021
This chapter critically examines dialogues between indigenous feminists and academic feminists about the role and significance of indigenous epistemologies in constructing social scientific knowledge, particularly feminist epistemologies. We argue that the term indigenous feminisms must be understood as broadly linking gender equality, decolonization, and sovereignty for indigenous peoples. In Latin America, this term typifies an activist and practical movement with cultural, economic, and politically specific dimensions. We posit that analytical and theoretical frameworks developed from indigenous women's ways of knowledge production should be recognized and legitimated in feminist discourse because much is learned from their worldview about women's emancipation, the importance of intersectionality in terms of race, ethnicity, and gender in indigenous contexts, in addition to political and cultural critiques. We show that indigenous feminist theoretical formulations are not homogenous but overlap in some areas of theoretical and practical formulations that involve new conceptualizations of the body, space, time, action/movement, and memory.
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2020
The epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in the Americas reveals a broad social dynamic that crosses national and regional borders. The violence of colonization and exploitation is reproduced at different scales, from within the home to the international scene, placing Indigenous women in spaces of exclusion, at the margins of state and society, where violence can unfold and reproduce itself in total impunity. This article presents the methodology of an initiative that aimed to shed light on the endemic violence suffered by Indigenous women and on the resistance efforts, initiatives and strategies to address it. Based on a virtual forum, which was conceived of as a space of exchange between multiple voices and actors from a variety of perspectives, we highlight discussions on the politics of defining violence, the impacts of the exclusion of bodies and territories, the multifaceted strategies of resistance, as well as paths for further policy-relevant research.
The indigenous woman as victim of her culture in neoliberal Mexico
Cultural Dynamics, 2005
This article examines the appearance of an indigenous woman victim subject at the intersection of global and national rights discourses in Mexico. In the case of the rape of three indigenous women by the Mexican Army, in World Bank policy recommendations in which culture and gender are cast as 'impediments to development', and in everyday explanations for poverty, culture is cast as harmful to indigenous women. Structural violence and indigenous women's agency are obscured. This victim subject emerges to contest recent destabilizations of the meanings of gender and culture in the wake of indigenous women's militancy in the 1994 Zapatista uprising.