<div dir="ltr"><div>Estimados colegas, <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Saludos, <br></div><div><br></div><div>Juan <br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="gmail-m_6100379433073119296x_MsoNormal">Announcing the publication of a new book, <i><a href="https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/vernacular-sovereignties" target="_blank">Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics</a></i> (University of Arizona Press). In
<i>Vernacular Sovereignties</i>, 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.
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<p>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
<i>vernacular sovereignties</i>. Weaving feminist perspectives with
Indigenous studies, this interdisciplinary work expands conceptual
debates on state sovereignty.
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<p class="gmail-m_6100379433073119296x_MsoNormal"><font color="#5c0700"><span style="background-color:white">“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 </span><i>Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador</i></font></p>
<p class="gmail-m_6100379433073119296x_MsoNormal">Available at the <a href="https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/vernacular-sovereignties" target="_blank">
University of Arizona Press</a> with a 30% discount below (and on <a href="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" target="_blank">
Amazon</a>)</p><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Juan G. Ramos, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor of Spanish<br>Department of Spanish<br>College of the Holy Cross<br>1 College Street<br>Worcester, MA 01610<br>(508) 793-2607<br><a href="mailto:jramos@holycross.edu" target="_blank">jramos@holycross.edu</a><br><br></div><div>Author of <a href="http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683400240" target="_blank"><i>Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin American Arts</i>.</a> Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018.<br><br>Co-editor of <a href="http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137603128" target="_blank"><i>Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures</i></a>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.</div><br><div><a href="mailto:jramos@holycross.edu" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="mailto:jramos@holycross.edu" target="_blank"><br></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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