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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794583803321

Titolo

Indigenous women and violence : feminist activist research in heightened states of injustice / / edited by Lynn Stephen and Shannon Speed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : University of Arizona Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-8165-4262-7

0-8165-4296-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages : illustrations, maps)

Disciplina

362.88/55082097

Soggetti

Indigenous women - Political activity - Mexico

Indigenous women - Political activity - United States

Indigenous women - Violence against - Guatemala

Indigenous women - Violence against - Mexico

Indigenous women - Violence against - United States

Indigenous women - Political activity - Guatemala

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

5. Confronting Gendered Embodied Structures of Violence: Mam Indigenous Women Seeking Justice in Guatemala and the United States / Lynn Stephen -- 6. Gender-Territorial Justice and the "War Against Life": Anticolonial Road Maps in Mexico / Mariana Mora -- 7. Ethical Tribunals and Gendered Violence in Guatemala's Armed Conflict / Morna Macleod -- 8. SOVERYEMPTY narrative DeneNde poetics in walled homelands / Margo Tamez -- Epilogue: Indigenous Women and Violence in the Time of Coronavirus / Lynn Stephen and Shannon Speed -- Contributors -- Index

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Indigenous Women and Violence / Shannon Speed and Lynn Stephen -- 1. Grief and an Indigenous Feminist's Rage: The Embodied Field of Knowledge Production / Shannon Speed -- 2. Prison as a Colonial Enclave: Incarcerated Indigenous Women Resisting Multiple Violence / R. Aída Hernández



Castillo -- 3. Women Defenders and the Fight for Gender Justice in Indigenous Territories / María Teresa Sierra -- 4. The Case of Sepur Zarco and the Challenge to the Colonial State / Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj

Sommario/riassunto

"An intimate view of how inequality and deeply ingrained structural settler colonialism build accumulated violences in the lives of indigenous women and how these women resist"--