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Decolonising Andean Identities

Andinxs, Activism and Social change

Groundbreaking interdisciplinary insights into gender studies in Andean Latin America, addressing transformative societal shifts and anti-genderism.

The collection Decolonising Andean Identities presents ground-breaking work from scholars carrying out social science research in and from Andean Latin America. It addresses themes of central importance to contemporary perspectives on interdisciplinary gender studies and politics in societies undergoing significant social transformation, by bringing together several in-depth ethnographic accounts and a diverse range of methodologies that will appeal to a wide audience. Taken together, its essays offer insights into the transformative role of gender in Latin America, providing the first academic collection of scholarship to give critical context for the rise of anti-genderism in the Andes.

Decolonising Andean Identities aims to develop the field of decolonial gender studies by showcasing interdisciplinary work at the forefront of scholarship. It draws on international expertise through its diverse contributors, including predominately Latin American scholars. In this way, it addresses the urgent need to broaden the perspectives on gender and gender-based activism in Latin America beyond the Southern Cone and Mexico, so that scholars can bring the region as a whole into dialogue with global scholarship.
 

182 pages | 2 halftones, 1 line drawing | 6.14 x 9.21

Modern Americas

Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology


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Table of Contents

List of figures
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Jelke Boesten

Introduction
Rebecca Irons and Phoebe Martin

Part I: Coloniality, indigeneity and the body

  1. Entrapped in Hollow Choices: Indigenous Women Manoeuvring Legal Pluralism in Ecuador
    Andrea Espinoza Carvajal
  2. A New Dawn for Good Living: Women Healing and Defending Body, Community, and Culture in the Andes
    Lucia Stavig
  3. Prudish in the Puna: Quechua Sexuality and the Post-Colonial Pornographic Gaze
    Rebecca Irons
  4. Queerness and social suffering in the Peruvian Andes through the lens of ‘Retablo’
    Micaela Giesecke Chero

Part II: Emergent Andean feminisms

  1. ‘Somos Las Indígenas Que No Pudiste Esterilizar’: Visual and Embodied Activism in the Contemporary Peruvian Feminist Movement
    Phoebe Martin
  2. Challenging Multiple Oppressions: Situating the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC) Insurgent Feminism Within Andean Feminisms
    Jennifer Bates
  3. AMiMeGustaLaVidaSocial: An analysis of a feminist and Peruvian social media ’campaign’ against victim blaming

    Daniela Meneses

Afterword
Florence Babb

Index

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