Scales of resistance : indigenous women's transborder activism / Maylei Blackwell.
| Author/creator |
Blackwell, Maylei, 1969- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2023. |
| Description | xxviii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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| Contents | The Practice of Autonomy: Indigenous Women's Multiscalar Organizing in Mexico -- Abiayala as Scale: Indigenous Women's Organizing in the Americas -- Rebellion at the Roots: Place-based Activism Interweaving the Local -- Geographies of Difference: Transborder Organizing and Indigenous Women's Activism -- Geographies of Indigeneity: Indigenous Migrant Women's Organizing and Translocal Politics of Place -- The Subterranean Life of Seeds. |
| Abstract | "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 over seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Blackwell, Maylei, 1969- Scales of resistance Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478022602 |
| LCCN | 2022029792 |
| ISBN | 9781478017967 |
| ISBN | 1478017961 |
| ISBN | 9781478015352 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1478015357 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook other) |
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