Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781478015352 |
ISBN10: | 1478015357 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 392 pages |
Size: | 229x152 mm |
Weight: | 680 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 38 illustrations |
603 |
Category:
Scales of Resistance
Indigenous Women?s Transborder Activism
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 12 May 2023
Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
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Short description:
Maylei Blackwell tells the story of how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and California moves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales.
Long description:
In Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork spent accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance. Blackwell shows how activists in Mexico and those in the migrant stream that runs from Oaxaca into California redefined women’s roles in community decision-making. They did so by scaling down Indigenous autonomy to their own bodies, homes, and communities; grounding their political claims within Indigenous epistemologies and the gendered nature of social organization; and scaling up to regional, national, and continental contexts. This allowed them to place themselves at the heart of Indigenous resistance and autonomy, decolonizing gender hierarchies and creating new scales of participation. Blackwell reveals the importance of moving across different types of scale and contrasting colonial divisions of scale itself with Indigenous conceptions of scale, space, solidarity, and connection.
"In Scales of Resistance, Blackwell rethinks scale beyond solely its colonial and masculinist forms by centering Indigenous women’s organizing and geographies. By highlighting the work that Indigenous women (sometimes migrants) do at varying scales, as well as the creation of new scales based on their readings of power in different places and their own cosmovisions, Blackwell’s book is an important corrective to scalar analyses that invisibilize marginalized actors."
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations vii
Abbreviations xi
Prelude. Walking Together: The Politics of Acompañamiento xv
Introduction 1
1. The Multiscalar Practice of Autonomy in Mexico 41
2. Abiayala as Scale 96
3. Rebellion at the Roots 143
4. Transborder Geographies of Difference 193
5. Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity 230
Coda. The Subterranean Life Seeds 258
Notes 297
References 313
Index 349
Abbreviations xi
Prelude. Walking Together: The Politics of Acompañamiento xv
Introduction 1
1. The Multiscalar Practice of Autonomy in Mexico 41
2. Abiayala as Scale 96
3. Rebellion at the Roots 143
4. Transborder Geographies of Difference 193
5. Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity 230
Coda. The Subterranean Life Seeds 258
Notes 297
References 313
Index 349