Noise impact in a residential development in Zapopan Jalisco, Mexico.

Aceves, Cesar Muñoz; García, Juan J.; Osuna, Martha Esparza; Rodriguez, Viridiana Mendez

doi:10.1121/1.3508134

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“…In 1853, the Friar Felipe de Jesús Muñoz notes how the missionary of San Andrés describes the church abandoned and ‘among their sins, sodomy predominates’. A few years later it was proposed that to evangelise the Huichols ‘ceremonies should not be forbidden, nor sacred sites destroyed but … their customs can be gradually pulled out of their minds until no trace remains’ (Muñoz 1853 ), suggesting that the imposition of a modern and Catholic moral and gendered order did not happen. However, little by little some moral ideas were incorporated into Wixárika customs while Catholicism melded with their own religious mythology, but this was tempered by a firm grip by women and men on their Wixárika way of life.…”

Section: Negotiations Man-to-manmentioning

confidence: 99%

The messy coloniality of gender and development in Indigenous Wixárika communities

Villagrana,

Gamlin,

Fernández Aceves

2023

Gender & Development

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Understanding the coloniality of gendered lives, family dynamics, social arrangements, and political structures in Indigenous communities begins with confronting and interrogating a history written largely by and for men in positions of power. The archives are limited in terms of what can be gleaned about gender equality and what existed before the proliferation of European patriarchy. Indigenous Wixárika people tread a delicate balance between a lifeworld that is organised around a ritual–agricultural cycle, and the accelerating incorporation of the imperial mode of living and the coloniality of being, into their communities and culture. The ‘coloniality of gender’ explains how Indigenous women and men have been drawn into and shaped through contact zones, these sites of imperial intervention that have brought social, cultural, and structural changes to gender. Problematically, this concept assumes a one-way process of domination, whereby modern European power structures were imposed on Indigenous people. A critical exploration reveals how gender dynamics and equality were influenced by a much messier process, entangled with Wixárika’s cultural and religious systems as well as the leveraging of political collateral. This paper will draw on findings from a historical and ethnographic study of the coloniality of gender in Indigenous Wixárika communities. We will critically examine archival evidence alongside oral histories to suggest how social, development, and political interventions from the late 20th century challenge the idea of the ‘coloniality of gender’, and discuss how past and present actants collide and dialogue to bring about social change and greater gender equality.

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Section: Negotiations Man-to-manmentioning

confidence: 99%