Latin America’s Left-Turn and the Political Empowerment of Indigenous Women

Rousseau, Stéphanie; Ewig, Christina

doi:10.1093/sp/jxx013

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“…The Morales government dismantled the existing state machinery, the Vice-Ministry on Gender and Generational Affairs within the Ministry of Sustainable Development, and created a new Office on Gender and Generational Violence in the new Vice-Ministry on Equal Opportunities. The new office had limited decision-making authority, lacked human, technical and financial resources, and operated at the lowest level of the organizational and structural hierarchy of the Ministry of Justice (Rousseau and Ewig 2017). Due to this, it was unable to intervene in national processes nor to coordinate with gender mechanisms and bodies operating at the subnational level in the context of the process to increase the autonomy of local communities.…”

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The "pink tide" or turn to the left that altered the Latin American political landscape brought promises to promote equality, social justice, and new forms of democratic participation on the one hand, and stronger and more centralized states, with greater capacity to intervene and regulate the economy and society on the other hand. This paper examines if and how these promises affected women's policy machinery in four countries in the region. Now that the pink tide era is fading and the region is facing an increase in conservative and anti-gender movements, it is important to know if statesociety architectures changed in any substantial way to provide some level of protection or resilience against backsliding.

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“…We might attribute incorporation to changes in public attitudes about female participation, to which state-level politicians would presumably be eager to respond (Inglehart and Norris 2003). Or the case might be explained by the rise of women's social movements, as in the suffragist movement in the United States (McCammon et al 2001), the push for legislative gender quotas in many countries (Krook 2007;Piscopo 2015), improvements in indigenous women's representation (Rousseau and Ewig 2017), or the adoption of policies to combat violence against women (Beer 2017;Htun and Weldon 2012). In addition, we might suspect that those who promoted female inclusion were anticipating a partisan advantage or some other political benefit.…”

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Subordinated Autonomy and the Political Inclusion of Women in Indigenous Mexico

Cleary

2020

Lat Am Polit Soc

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This article explores the tension between multicultural legal reforms and the liberal state-building project in present-day Mexico. Specifically, it traces the process by which the Mexican state challenged and eventually forced changes to customary restrictions on women in public life in some indigenous communities in the southern state of Oaxaca. The study argues that the act of formalizing autonomy for indigenous communities, in the context of Mexico’s homogenizing neoliberal state, had the unanticipated effect of exposing exclusionary practices to state scrutiny, which eventually forced those communities to recognize women’s political rights. Thus the effort to protect indigenous practices facilitated the territorial and juridical expansion of the Mexican state into formerly autonomous areas of the countryside.

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“…Most scholars characterise Peru as a country with weak indigenous movements, whose demands would have no influence in regional and national policies (Van Cott, ; Yashar, ; Rice, ; Rousseau and Ewig, ; Callirgos, ), even though 25 percent of the population self‐identify as indigenous (INEI, ) and its socio‐economic structures are similar to those of Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous movements are stronger. This weakness is characterised by limited indigenous political identity, political scale and electoral involvement.…”

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Rethinking Indigenous Politics: The Unnoticed Struggle for Self‐Determination in Peru

Merino

2019

Bull Latin American Res

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Most scholars characterise Peru as a country with weak indigenous movements, whose demands would have no influence in regional and national policies, even though its socioeconomic structures are similar to those of Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous movements are stronger. Based on fieldwork in the northern Peruvian Amazon and Lima between 2012-2013 and 2016-2018, this article argues that pro-indigenous legislation enacted as a response to strong indigenous mobilisation as well as the creation of indigenous autonomous governments in the Amazon express an unnoticed struggle for indigenous self-determination. These social phenomena also raise questions about the common assessment of the strength or weakness of indigenous movements.

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Latin America’s Left-Turn and the Political Empowerment of Indigenous Women

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Subordinated Autonomy and the Political Inclusion of Women in Indigenous Mexico

Rethinking Indigenous Politics: The Unnoticed Struggle for Self‐Determination in Peru

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