Essays about: "Indigenous feminism"
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1. Indigenous justice in Guatemala: Indigenous women’s access to justice versus indigenous communities’ collective rights
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : In 2016, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ruled in favor of validating the application of ancestral justice by the indigenous authorities of the community of Comitancillo, San Marcos, to an individual who raped a 10-year-old girl. In addition to recognizing the application of an ancestral punishment that consisted in asking for forgiveness and receiving some lashings from members of his family as valid, the court ordered the dismissal of the case in the legal ordinary system, claiming the aggressor had already been judged and punished. READ MORE
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2. Gender Equality Policies: Results for Social Change? : A comparative discourse analysis on gender equality from two ends of the “aid chain”
University essay fromAbstract : The field of international development cooperation has experienced an increasing demand for result-driven management over the last decades. However, a clear consensus of the meaning of ‘ results’ is often lacking in initiatives and projects for social change. READ MORE
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3. The Limitations and Potential of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: An Analysis through the Lenses of Indigeneity and Gender
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), theforemost legal instrument that defines and protects Indigenous rights, is groundbreaking because it centers the voices of Indigenous peoples and pushes back on the colonial undertones of the United Nations human rights framework. While this declaration represents a landmark in the fight for Indigenous rights, it is nonetheless rooted in a statist international system and perpetuates patriarchal and heteronormative traditions. READ MORE
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4. Speaking from the interstices: Latin American Decolonial Feminists Theorizing the State
University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Latin American decolonial feminists are concerned with deconstructing the colonial legacies that persist and multiply today albeit formal colonialism has ended. This thesis engages with Latin American decolonial feminism’s political project of decolonization in relation to the state, to see whether it follows the state-phobia tendency popular in other emancipatory political discourses. READ MORE
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5. Policy on domestic violence in Bolivia: An intersectional study on visibility and inclusion
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : The purpose of this thesis was to investigate visibility and inclusion in policy on domestic violence in Bolivia by answering the specific questions: 1) How are the axis of difference related to gender, class and ethnicity made visible in the national policy documents on domestic violence? and 2) How are the intersections of gender class and ethnicity understood by service providers in public institutions assisting victims of domestic violence and how do they relate them to their work and broader societal structures? This thesis employed a qualitative case study, conducting a qualitative content analysis of policy documents between 2008 and 2018, and semi-structured interviews with nine service providers in three municipalities of Cochabamba in order to answer these questions and fulfill the purpose. Findings showed that domestic violence is not an elaborated policy field in Bolivia, as its forms and implications as a typology in relation to intersecting inequalities is not fully formulated and politicized. READ MORE
