Laura Raquel Valladares de la Cruz She has a doctorate in anthropology, is a professor-researcher at the Department of Anthropology of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa since 2001. Member of the National System of Researchers, level I. Her research work focuses on indigenous movements and organizations in Mexico, an interest that has maintained it for more than three decades and that has led her to study issues such as forms of organization and resistance, and strategies of struggle of indigenous peoples in Mexico, as well as the collective rights of indigenous peoples. In this last area, he has analyzed its impact within indigenous organizations and its role in the construction of political platforms for various organizations. Another of her topics for reflection and research has been the organizing and advocacy process of indigenous women and youth of different ethnic groups. She has studied the human rights situation of indigenous women in communities in the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Veracruz, Michoacán and the State of Mexico. Another line has focused on the analysis of multicultural and postmulticultural policies implemented in Mexico from the 1990s to the present, from the perspective of legal anthropology.

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Indigenous women between wars: old and new expressions of violence

  • Laura Raquel Valladares de la Cruz

Keywords: Neoliberal extractivism., gender, intersectionality, indigenous women, Violence against women.

Throughout history it has been shown that in a large number of conflicts there is a constant: violence directed against women, using them as spoils of war to denigrate and hurt the contestants, be they peoples, groups or individuals. This is no different in contemporary conflicts faced by women of indigenous peoples, especially in those cases related to the struggle to build, defend and strengthen the autonomous models of their peoples and communities, as well as those related to the opposition of the peoples. against extractive megaprojects that threaten to deprive them of their territories. In this scenario, indigenous women are being objects of additional violence, not only considering them as spoils of war, but there is violence directed directly against them for their political activism, whether as autonomists, organization leaders, suffragettes, feminists or anti-women. extractivists. In this context, in this article we will provide an overview of the different intersections of gender, class, ethnicity that, in an extractive neoliberal context, violate men and women of indigenous peoples who put power, (in) justice and the economic model into question. current, focusing on the continuities and new expressions of violence against indigenous women.