Walking Together, but in Which Direction? Gender Discrimination and Multicultural Practices in Oaxaca, Mexico

Danielson, Michael S.; Eisenstadt, Todd A.

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“…A systematic study of women's participation under UC did partially confirm the long-held view that UC institutions exclude women (Danielson and Eisenstadt 2009). However, it also revealed that in municipalities that do tolerate service by women in leadership roles, women actually participate in elections at higher rates.…”

Section: Oaxaca As Experimental Environment For Assessing Multiculturmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…Of course, women's rights have routinely been ignored in much of Oaxaca (Eisenstadt 2007;Danielson and Eisenstadt 2009;Eisenstadt 2011), Latin America (Deere 2006), and around the world (Inglehart and Norris 2003). For example, in Chiapas, Subcommandante Marcos famously acknowledged that female participation in the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committees in 2004 was between 33 and 40 percent, but that women constituted less than 1 percent of the membership of the Good Government Councils and autonomous governing councils (Marcos cited in Lewis 2008: 182).…”

Section: Oaxaca As Experimental Environment For Assessing Multiculturmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Individual rights critics of multiculturalism such as Barry (2001), Zafra (2009), and Aguilar Rivera (2004) argue that the recognition of customary practices by governments unjustifiably permits gender-based exclusion from the political process, whereas multiculturalists such as Hernández Castillo (2006), Aguilar Ortiz, and Velásquez (2008) contend that the acknowledgment of group rights and identities supersedes individual rights. A visceral and emotional issue, this is also one that is rarely submitted to empirical testing, and prior tests of the relationship between ethnicity and female participation in the political process (Danielson and Eisenstadt 2009;Díaz-Cayeros, Magaloni, and Ruiz Euler 2011) have come up with somewhat divergent results. Danielson and Eisenstadt found female participation in selecting local authorities to be more prevalent where UC had been recognized, but with important intervening variables.…”

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Ethnic Identity, Informal Institutions, and the Failure to Elect Women in Indigenous Southern Mexico

Danielson

Eisenstadt

Yelle

2013

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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This article argues that the low levels of descriptive representation of women in local political office in Mexico and Latin America is much more than a problem of the purported patriarchal cultures of indigenous and rural communities. We claim, based on a comprehensive survey of 466 municipal governments in the indigenous state of Oaxaca, that the underrepresentation of women is a function of institutions limiting female candidates. We test this "candidate supply" hypothesis, adapted from USbased studies, against the hypothesis that culture-as measured by indigenous ethnicity-has an independent effect on women's representation. We disconfirm that patriarchal, traditionalist cultures of indigenous communities cause underrepresentation in the election of women and instead find that a particular set of local institutions, which are more prevalent in indigenous municipalities, blocks the supply of potential women candidates. We conclude by considering the normative implications for women's representation in local politics in Mexico and Latin America.

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Section: Oaxaca As Experimental Environment For Assessing Multiculturmentioning

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Ethnic Identity, Informal Institutions, and the Failure to Elect Women in Indigenous Southern Mexico

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Yelle

2013

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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“…Yet at the same time, many Oaxacan women are still excluded from rights and political participation under customary indigenous law, usos y costumbres (Dalton ; Danielson and Eisenstadt ), and Mexican women in general continue to be less likely than men to receive education and more likely to be illiterate (Calderón and Mejía Alcauter ). Oaxaca's maternal mortality average is one of the highest in the country (Freyermouth Enciso and Luna Contreras ).…”

Section: Carrying Our Mothers’ Burdens: Gender and Psy‐socialization mentioning

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Dinámicas Ocultas: Culture and Psy‐Sociality in Mexican Family Constellations Therapy

Duncan¹

2017

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This article takes the ethnographic case of Family Constellations therapy in Oaxaca, Mexico, to demonstrate how a nonnative therapeutic practice articulates with local cultural frameworks to foster novel forms of therapeutic experience and sociality. Family Constellations in Oaxaca promotes particular forms of what I call “psy‐sociality,” or sociality generated by globalizing psy concepts, diagnoses, and practices, which produce new sites for self‐work and subject‐formation, but also for jointly processing social suffering, familial conflict, and psychological distress in culturally salient ways. First, participants socialize in a structured way that promotes embodied connection to others. Second, participants are socialized into gendered ways of speaking, knowing, interpreting, and acting upon the self and the family. Finally, participants are also given explicit guidance for how to confront current sociofamilial conflicts with which they are grappling. In the process, participants localize this foreign therapy according to the context of present‐day Mexico. [healing, globalization, family, sociality, self, Mexico] Este artículo toma el caso etnográfico de la terapia de Constelaciones Familiares en Oaxaca, México, para demostrar cómo una práctica terapéutica no originaria del lugar se articula con marcos culturales locales para fomentar nuevas formas de sociabilidad y experiencia terapéutica. La terapia de Constelaciones Familiares en Oaxaca promueve formas particulares de lo que yo llamo “psicosocialidad”, o socialidad generada por la globalización de conceptos, diagnósticos y prácticas psicológicas que producen nuevos escenarios para el trabajo con uno mismo y la formación de sujetos, pero también para procesar de manera conjunta el sufrimiento social, los conflictos familiares y la angustia psicológica en formas culturalmente notables. En primer lugar, los participantes socializan en una forma estructurada que promueve la conexión corporal con otros. En segundo lugar, los participantes son socializados a través de maneras de hablar, conocer, interpretar y actuar con respecto a sí mismos y a la familia relacionadas con el género. Por último, los participantes también reciben instrucciones explícitas sobre cómo confrontar conflictos sociofamiliares actuales con los que están lidiando. En el proceso, los participantes adaptan esta terapia extranjera al contexto del México actual.

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“…In indigenous communities in Oaxaca, municipalities are elected through the process of Customs and Tradition rather than through electoral practices using secret ballots. Although Oaxacan women have always participated in the maintenance of their households and communities, they have not been allowed to formally participate in sistemas normativos internos (Danielson and Eisenstadt 2009;Worthen 2015). Gender roles are shifting in some of these communities due to increased male migration from rural Oaxaca.…”

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“Now We Have Equality”: A Feminist Political Ecology Analysis of Carbon Markets in Oaxaca, Mexico

Gay-Antaki¹

2016

Journal of Latin American Geography

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Walking Together, but in Which Direction? Gender Discrimination and Multicultural Practices in Oaxaca, Mexico

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

Ethnic Identity, Informal Institutions, and the Failure to Elect Women in Indigenous Southern Mexico

Ethnic Identity, Informal Institutions, and the Failure to Elect Women in Indigenous Southern Mexico

Dinámicas Ocultas: Culture and Psy‐Sociality in Mexican Family Constellations Therapy

“Now We Have Equality”: A Feminist Political Ecology Analysis of Carbon Markets in Oaxaca, Mexico

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