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Vernacular sovereignties : indigenous women challenging world politics
\"Shows how Indigenous women are important political agents in reshaping state sovereignty\"--Provided by publisher.
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Indigenous Women and Violence
Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of
how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and
inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous
women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist
violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States,
centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights
violations, the criminal justice system, and Indigenous justice.
Taking on the issues of our times, Indigenous Women and
Violence calls for the deepening of collaborative
ethnographies through community engagement and performing research
as an embodied experience. This book brings together settler
colonialism, feminist ethnography, collaborative and activist
ethnography, emotional communities, and standpoint research to look
at the links between structural, extreme, and everyday violences
across time and space. Indigenous Women and Violence is
built on engaging case studies that highlight the individual and
collective struggles that Indigenous women face from the racial and
gendered oppression that structures their lives. Gendered violence
has always been a part of the genocidal and assimilationist
projects of settler colonialism, and it remains so today. These
structures-and the forms of violence inherent to them-are driving
criminalization and victimization of Indigenous men and women,
leading to escalating levels of assassination, incarceration, or
transnational displacement of Indigenous people, and especially
Indigenous women. This volume brings together the potent
ethnographic research of eight scholars who have dedicated their
careers to illuminating the ways in which Indigenous women have
challenged communities, states, legal systems, and social movements
to promote gender justice. The chapters in this book are engaged,
feminist, collaborative, and activism focused, conveying powerful
messages about the resilience and resistance of Indigenous women in
the face of violence and systemic oppression. Contributors: R. Aída
Hernández-Castillo, Morna Macleod, Mariana Mora, María Teresa
Sierra, Shannon Speed, Lynn Stephen, Margo Tamez, Irma Alicia
Velásquez Nimatuj
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Vernacular Sovereignties
Indigenous women are rarely accounted for in world politics. Imagined as passive subjects at the margins of political decision-making, they often epitomize the antithesis of international relations. Yet from their positions of marginality they are shaping sovereignty.InVernacular Sovereignties, Manuela Lavinas Picq shows that Indigenous women have long been dynamic political actors who have partaken in international politics and have shaped state practices carrying different forms of resistance. Her research on Ecuador shows that although Kichwa women face overlapping oppressions from socioeconomic exclusions to sexual violence, they are achieving rights unparalleled in the world. They successfully advocated for women's participation in the administration of Indigenous justice during the 2008 constitutional reform, creating the first constitution in Latin America to explicitly guarantee the rights of Indigenous women and the first constitution worldwide to require gender parity in the administration of justice.Picq argues that Indigenous women are among the important forces reshaping states in Latin America. She offers empirical research that shows the significance of Indigenous women in international politics and the sophistication of their activism. Indigenous women strategically use international norms to shape legal authority locally, defying Western practices of authority as they build what the author callsvernacular sovereignties. Weaving feminist perspectives with Indigenous studies, this interdisciplinary work expands conceptual debates on state sovereignty.Picq persuasively suggests that the invisibility of Indigenous women in high politics is more a consequence of our failure to recognize their agency than a result of theirde factoabsence. It is an invitation not merely to recognize their achievements but also to understand why they matter to world politics.
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Mark My Words
Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants.
InMark My Words, Mishuana Goeman traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial violence, demonstrating how it persists in the contemporary context of neoliberal globalization. The book argues that it is vital to refocus the efforts of Native nations beyond replicating settler models of territory, jurisdiction, and race. Through an examination of twentieth-century Native women's poetry and prose, Goeman illuminates how these works can serve to remap settler geographies and center Native knowledges. She positions Native women as pivotal to how our nations, both tribal and nontribal, have been imagined and mapped, and how these women play an ongoing role in decolonization.
In a strong and lucid voice, Goeman provides close readings of literary texts, including those of E. Pauline Johnson, Esther Belin, Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Heid Erdrich. In addition, she places these works in the framework of U.S. and Canadian Indian law and policy. Her charting of women's struggles to define themselves and their communities reveals the significant power in all of our stories.
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Nesor Annim, Niteikapar (Good Morning, Cardinal Honeyeater): Indigenous Reflections on Micronesian Women and the Environment
Women across Oceania are social justice champions and advocates for Indigenous rights, political independence, anti-militarism, a nuclear-free Pacific, climate change justice, and gender equality. Recent studies have shown that Pacific women are empowered by their maternal responsibility to take a leadership role in protecting people, their resources, and the environment. To further expand on women's leadership role, I look into a deep Oceanic understanding of women and the environment, showing that Indigenous stories across Micronesia esteem the environment as sacred and maternal. Drawing on Indigenous stories of creation, I argue that Micronesian women historically held powerful status and prestige in their societies and that understanding maternal responsibility can be empowering and can advance gender equality, community resilience, and women's leadership in the contemporary Pacific.
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An Exploration of the Decolonization and Ecofeminist Activism of Indigenous Kenyan Women in Wangari Maathai's Memoir Unbowed: One Woman’s Story
Wangari Maathai, perhaps one of the world’s most renowned African female writers, frequently writes on the struggles faced by indigenous Kenyan women who lack the essentials for survival. Her writings are infused with the efforts of indigenous women to establish themselves as contributing members who can create new ethical, cultural, and territorial agendas. In her writings, Maathai also places a strong emphasis on indigenous female ideal transformation and decolonization narratives. Environmentalism and indigenous women’s agency have always been a key unrelenting passion in Maathai’s writings. Following this passion, this study examines the decolonization and ecofeminist activist narratives that shape the indigenous Kenyan women's national collective identity and agency. The purpose of this article is to explore Maathai's inspiring activism which is a succession of countless acts of activism toward the planting of both the seeds of land and the agency of indigenous Kenyan women.
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Nursing Civil Rights
In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter. Each conducted separate integration campaigns to end the discrimination they suffered. Yet their stories defy the narrative that civil rights struggles inevitably arced toward social justice. Threat tells how progressive elements in the campaigns did indeed break down barriers in both military and civilian nursing. At the same time, she follows conservative threads to portray how some of the women who succeeded as agents of change became defenders of exclusionary practices when men sought military nursing careers. The ironic result was a struggle that simultaneously confronted and reaffirmed the social hierarchies that nurtured discrimination.
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Plurality of Activisms: Indigenous Women's Collectives in Olenek District AND SARDANA NIKOLAEVA
Indigenous women's activism occupies a specific niche within local and global Indigenous politics and plays a particularly important role in the socio-cultural and political development of Indigenous communities. In this regard, it is vital to explore not only activist strategies of grassroots Indigenous women's organizing but also their histories, contexts, and activist scopes. The women's collectives in the Olenek Evenki National District of the Sakha Republic (Russian Federation) have a long history of cultural and political activism. In this photo-essay, we aim to narrativize women's activism in Olenek as well as visually represent the activists themselves. Through the photos and the analytical narratives complimenting them, we also want to explore distinct (and diverse) articulations of Indigenous identities and of Indigenous activisms in the post-Soviet Indigenous Arctic. Keywords: Indigenous politics, Indigenous activisms, Olenek (Sakha Republic), post-Soviet politics, women's activism
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INDIGENOUS AND FEMINIST MOVEMENTS AT THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY IN BOLIVIA: Locating the Representation of Indigenous Women
This article analyzes the recent constituent assembly in Bolivia as a political context in which the indigenous movement and the feminist movement presented different platforms to influence the content of the new constitution. The representation of indigenous women's gender-specific claims is examined through a study of their forms of organizing at the intersection of both social movements and content analysis of the movements' constitutional reform proposals. The success of both movements and the capacity of indigenous women to position themselves as a central actor in the process are explained through reference to the strength of the indigenous movement in national politics, the history of indigenous women's mobilization, and the collaboration between indigenous women and the feminist movement. Indigenous women's collective agency has benefited from this political context to develop new organizations and spaces to claim their rights and perspectives. La reciente asamblea constituyente de Bolivia se analiza corno un contexto político en el cual el movimiento indígena y el movimiento feminista presentaron diferentes plataformas para influir en el contenido de la nueva Constitución. La representación de las reivindicaciones de género de las mujeres indígenas es examinada tras el estudio de sus formas de organización en la intersection de ambos movimientos, y con un análisis de contenido de sus propuestas de reforma constitucional. El éxito de ambos y la capacidad de las mujeres indígenas para posicionarse como un actor central en el proceso se explican en relación a la fuerza del movimiento indígena en la política nacional, la historia de movilización de las mujeres indígenas, y la colaboración entre mujeres indígenas y las del movimiento feminista. La agencia colectiva de las mujeres indígenas se beneficio de ese contexto político desarrollando nuevas organizaciones y espacios para reclamar derechos y afirmar sus propias perspectivas en este cambio político.
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Breastfeeding practices in Mexico: Results from the National Demographic Dynamic Survey 2006–2018
Although actions have been taken to improve breastfeeding in Mexico, trends over the last decade and their associated factors have not been analysed. We estimated trends in breastfeeding practices at the national, rural/urban, and regional level indigenous ethnicity and socio‐economic level, and their associated factors using the National Demographic Dynamics Survey (2006, 2009, 2014 and 2018). We assessed breastfeeding indicators of women with children <24 months according to The World Health Organization recommendations. Logistic regressions models of pooled data were used to estimate trends and associations with biological and sociodemographic characteristics. Between 2006 and 2018, the prevalence of ever breastfed increased from 91.8% to 94.2% (p < 0.001), whereas early initiation of breastfeeding increased from 40.8% to 59.7% (p < 0.001), with similar increments by urban/rural level. Between 2009 and 2018, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding in children <6 months increased from 13.0% to 20.7% (p < 0.001). The largest increase was seen in Mexico City, in nonindigenous women and those with a high socio‐economic status, whereas indigenous women and those from the South had the lowest or no improvements. Breastfeeding education during pregnancy [odds ratio (OR) 1.3; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.1–1.5] was positively associated with exclusive breastfeeding, whereas being employed (OR 0.8; 95% CI 0.6–0.9) was negatively associated. Breastfeeding practices improved but are still far from recommendations. Implementing strategies like breastfeeding counselling and programmes and policies that promote and support breastfeeding for poor, indigenous, single and working mothers should be a priority for the government to ensure that all children have the best start in life.
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