Jo-Marie Burt & María Eugenia Ulfe | Power and Resistance in the Americas: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

  Against different forms of violence, women are often at the forefront of movements resisting oppression and defending rights. In their search for justice in war crimes trials, women’s voices and narration are a critical part of the healing process for them as individuals but also for their communities, while also contributing to rewriting difficult pasts. Women are also at the forefront of movements that seek to defend collective and community rights, which are under threat by extractivist industries and illicit economies with the implicit and sometimes explicit support of the state. Caring and caring practices, usually associated with women and their domestic worlds, thus assume a public dimension, as women become protagonists of movements to defend human rights, communities, and territories. With cases from Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, and other Latin American countries, this is an invitation to think together from different disciplinary perspectives on issues related to resistance and power, women and territories, displacements and politics.

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