This paper examines the difficulties that a network of Indigenous women in Mexico deal with when they seek peace for their people under a hybrid political structure. This paper discusses some distinctive aspects of the politics that these women engage in, how they conceive their political ideas, and how they use these ideas to structurally transform the colonial relationship that the liberal state maintains toward their people. They devise various strategies to influence state policies and to withstand the discrimination they face whenever they participate in democratic affairs.
Author Bio(s)
Alaide Vences Estudillo is a mestiza who vinidcates her nahua roots Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Sociological Research - Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca- IISUABJO. Alaide is interested in the study of Indigenous peace and conflict transformation processes in Mexico.
Norma Don Juan Pérez has been part of the National Coordinating Committee of Indigenous Women (CONAMI) in Mexico for 15 years. is an Indigenous Nahua Woman from Mexico City. Norma holds a degree in Human Settlement Design from the Metropolitan Autonomous University Xochimilco Unit (UAM-X). She is well known as a human rights advocate, popular educator, and social researcher.
Patricia Torres Sandoval is P’urhépecha, native of the community of Pichátaro in Michoacán, Mexico. Torres is a member of the P’urhépecha Zapatista Nation Organization (ONPZ) in Michoacán. She has been politically active since 1999, when she became a member of the National Coordination of Indigenous Women (CONAMI). She is currently a member of the CONAMI’s Council of Women Elders. She was also a founder of the National Network of Indigenous Women Lawyers (RAI) in 2011. Torres is pursuing her MA in social anthropology at the Center of Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City.
Fabiola Del Jurado Mendoza is Nahua, has a degree in psychology and lectures at the Autonomous University of Morelos State. She is a member of the Coordinating Group of Indigenous and Popular Cultural Groups [Coordinadora de Grupos Culturales Indígenas y Populares] and of CONAMI’s Council of Elders.
Keywords
Comprehensive Approaches to Violence, Indigenous Methodologies, Communitarian Politics, Indigenous Women’s Organizing, Peace, Politics, Strategies to Influence State Politics
Publication Date
12-2024
Recommended Citation
Vences Estudillo, Alaide; Don Juan Pérez, Norma; Torres Sandoval, Patricia; and Del Jurado Mendoza, Fabiola
(2024)
"When Is It Convenient for Indigenous Women to Influence State Policies?,"
Peace and Conflict Studies: Vol. 31:
No.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/pcs/vol31/iss1/1
