Decolonising Andean Identities
Andinxs, activism and social change
Edited by Rebecca Irons and Phoebe Martin
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.
The collection 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. There is an urgent need to broaden the perspectives on gender and gender-based activism in Latin America beyond the Southern Cone and Mexico in order to bring the region as a whole into dialogue with global scholarship.
The contributors use the term ‘Andinxs’ as a provocation to encourage scholars of the region to reconsider approaches the politics of gender, sexuality and (de)coloniality. By responding to the question, ‘Who are Andinxs (Andin-exs)?’ the collection interrogates the postcolonial, gendered and political subjectivities currently undergoing dramatic social change in Andean Latin America.
Praise for Decolonising Andean Identities
'Decolonizing Andean Identities is a brilliant contribution to the scholarship of the Andean region that offers readers a new grammar for thinking about gender and feminist activism in a decolonial register. Irons and Martin introduce the term ‘Andinx’ as a critical reevaluation of ‘andeanism,’ pushing the boundaries of academic discourse to encompass the rich, multifaceted experiences of those living in the Andes today.'
Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago, University of Cambridge
'This is a timely and inspirational collection that captures the power and potential of intersectional feminist activism in the Andes. Breaking new ground conceptually through the term Andinx, it also provides fascinating decolonial insights into gender, sexualities, indigeneity and feminism.'
Cathy McIlwaine, King’s College London
Rebecca Irons is Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Health, UCL. Phoebe Martin is Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London.
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword
Jelke Boesten
Introducing Andinxs
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 and community in the Andes
Lucía Isabel Stavig
3 Prudish in the puna: Quechua sexuality and the post-colonial pornographic gaze
Rebecca Irons
4 Queer suffering in the Andes through the lens of the film Retablo
Micaela Giesecke-Chero
Part II: Emergent Andean feminisms
5 ‘Somos las indígenas que no pudiste esterilizar’: visual and embodied activism in the contemporary Peruvian feminist movement
Phoebe Martin
6 Challenging multiple oppressions: situating the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC) insurgent feminism within Andean feminisms
Jennifer Bates
7 #AMiMeGustaLaVidaSocial: an analysis of a feminist and Peruvian social media 'campaign’ against victim blaming
Daniela Meneses Sala
Afterword: Andinxs as provocation for a new generation of Andean researchers
Florence E. Babb
Index
'This is a timely and inspirational collection that captures the power and potential of intersectional feminist activism in the Andes. Breaking new ground conceptually through the term 'Andinx', it also provides fascinating decolonial insights into gender, sexualities, indigeneity and feminism.'
Cathy McIlwaine, King’s College London
'Decolonizing Andean Identities is a brilliant contribution to the scholarship of the Andean region that offers readers a new grammar for thinking about gender and feminist activism in a decolonial register. Irons and Martin introduce the term ‘Andinx’ as a critical reevaluation of ‘andeanism,’ pushing the boundaries of academic discourse to encompass the rich, multifaceted experiences of those living in the Andes today.' Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago, University of Cambridge
Format: Hardback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
196 Pages
1 diagram and 2 B&W photo/halftones
Copyright: © 2024
ISBN: 9781787354944
Publication: June 03, 2024
Series: Modern Americas
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