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  • Incarcerated Stories

    Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State

    by Shannon Speed ...
    Series series Critical Indigeneities
    Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their disproportionate vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies and practices in Latin ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Women and Violence

    Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice

    Edited by Lynn Stephen, Shannon Speed ...
    Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Dissident Women

    Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas

    Edited by Shannon Speed, Lynn M. Stephen, R. Aída Hernández Castillo ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    Yielding pivotal new perspectives on the indigenous women of Mexico, Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas presents a diverse collection of voices exploring the human rights and gender issues that gained international attention after the first public appearance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in 1994.Drawing from studies on topics ranging from the daily life of ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Human Rights in the Maya Region

    Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements

    by Rodolfo Stavenhagen ...
    In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state, and the presence of multinational actors ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Feminicide and Global Accumulation

    Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism

    by Susana Draper, Liz Mason-Deese, Silvia Federici, Sheila Gruner ...
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  • The Anti-Black City

    Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

    by Jaime Amparo Alves ...
    An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the ... Read more

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  • I'm Neither Here nor There

    Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

    by Patricia Zavella ...
    I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and ... Read more

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  • Barrio Libre

    Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier

    by Gilberto Rosas ...
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  • Vernacular Sovereignties

    Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics

    by Manuela Lavinas Picq ...
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  • Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

    Edited by Edward F. Fischer ...
    In recent years the concept and study of “civil society” has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America, this volume explores the multiple potentialities of civil society’s growth and critically assesses the ... Read more

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  • Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico

    The Other Half of the Centaur

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