[Lasa] Anuncio: nueva publicación

[Ramos, Juan G.]

Estimados colegas,

Les envío este anuncio sobre la publicación del nuevo libro de Manuela
Picq. También les adjunto un documento en formato en pdf con más
información sobre el libro.

Saludos,

Juan

Announcing the publication of a new book, *Vernacular Sovereignties:
Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
<https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/vernacular-sovereignties>* (University of
Arizona Press). In *Vernacular Sovereignties*, Manuela Lavinas Picq shows
that Indigenous women have long been dynamic political actors who have
partaken in international politics and have shaped state practices carrying
different forms of resistance. Her research on Ecuador shows that although
Kichwa women face over- lapping oppressions from socioeconomic exclusions
to sexual violence, they are achieving rights unparalleled in the world.
They successfully advocated for women’s participation in the administration
of Indigenous justice during the 2008 constitutional reform, creating the
first constitution in Latin America to explicitly guarantee the rights of
Indigenous women, and the first worldwide to require gender parity in the
administration of justice.

Picq argues that Indigenous women are among the important forces re-
shaping states in Latin America. She offers empirical research that shows
the significance of Indigenous women in international politics and the
sophistication of their activism. Indigenous women strategically use
international norms to shape legal authority locally, defying Western
practices of authority as they build what the author calls *vernacular
sovereignties*. Weaving feminist perspectives with Indigenous studies, this
interdisciplinary work expands conceptual debates on state sovereignty.

“In this thoughtful and compelling book, Picq effectively restores
Indigenous women to their rightful place in academic and political
discourse, thus making a groundbreaking contribution to the fields of
gender and Native studies.”—Marc Becker, author of *Pachakutik: Indigenous
Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador*

Available at the University of Arizona Press
<https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/vernacular-sovereignties> with a 30%
discount below (and on Amazon
<https://www.amazon.com/Vernacular-Sovereignties-Indigenous-Challenging-Politics/dp/0816537356/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1531434119&sr=8-1&keywords=picq+vernacular+sovereignties>
)

Juan G. Ramos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA 01610
(508) 793-2607
jramos at holycross.edu

Author of *Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin American Arts*.
<http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683400240> Gainesville: University Press of
Florida, 2018.

Co-editor of *Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and
Cultures* <http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137603128>. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.


<jramos at holycross.edu>

<jramos at holycross.edu>
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