Demanding Justice and Security

RACHEL SIEDER is a senior research professor at the Centre for Research and Advanced Study in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. She is the coeditor of Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives.

• PrefaceIntroduction Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America: Demanding Justice and SecurityRachel SiederPart I Gender and Justice-Between State Law and International NormsChapter 1 Between Community Justice and International Litigation: The Case of InÉs FernÁndez before the Inter-American CourtRosalva AÍda HernÁndez CastilloChapter 2 Domestic Violence and Access to Justice: The Political Dilemma of the Cuetzalan Indigenous Women’s Home (CAMI)Adriana Terven SalinasChapter 3 Between Participation and Violence: Gender Justice and Neoliberal Government in Chichicastenango, GuatemalaRachel SiederPart II Indigenous Autonomies and Struggles for Gender JusticeChapter 4 Indigenous Autonomies and Gender Justice: Women’s Dispute for Security and Rights in Guerrero, MexicoMarÍa Teresa SierraChapter 5 Gender Inequality, Indigenous Justice, and the Intercultural State: The Case of Chimborazo, EcuadorEmma Cervone y Cristina CucuriChapter 6 Let Us Walk Together”: Chachawarmi [Male-Female] Complementarity and Indigenous Autonomies in BoliviaAna Cecilia Arteaga BÖhrtChapter 7 Participate, Make Visible, Propose: The Wager of Indigenous Women in the Organizational Process of the Regional Indigenous Council of the Cauca (CRIC)Leonor LozanoPart III Women’s Alternatives in the Face of Racism and DispossessionChapter 8 Voices within Silences: Indigenous Women, Security, and Rights in the Mountain Region of GuerreroMariana MoraChapter 9 Grievances and Crevices of Resistance: Maya Women Defy GoldcorpMorna MacleodChapter 10 Intersectional Violence: Triqui Women Confront Racism, the State, and Male LeadershipNatalia De MarinisPart IV Methodological PerspectivesChapter 11 Methodological Routes: Toward a Critical and Collaborative Legal AnthropologyRosalva AÍda HernÁndez Castillo and Adriana TervenNotes on ContributorsIndex

“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)