Author Archives: anacgaeta
Retos y posibilidades de los peritajes antropológicos: reflexiones desde la experiencia Mexicana
In this article, the researcher analyzes the challenges of preparing cultural expert opinions in defense of indigenous justice systems, in contexts marked by violence and the criminalization of social movements. She uses her experience in preparing an expert report in the defense of a woman member of an indigenous security and justice system as an example, where she reflects on the limits and possibilities of expert opinions in contexts in which law has become a tool to justify state violence and repress indigenous autonomic projects.
Mulheres Indígenas e o acesso à Justiça: a perspectiva de gênero na antropologia jurídica latino-americana
The chapter is written in Portuguese.
In this text, the authors reflect on the contributions of the practices and theorizations of indigenous women in Latin America for the reformulation of a legal anthropology with a gender perspective. They consider that the critical perspectives of legal anthropology in the Latin American countries that incorporated gender analysis are the product of a dialogue of knowledge between anthropologists committed to the struggles of organized indigenous peoples and women who, have been reflecting on their rights as women and as indigenous peoples and focusing in particular on spaces of community justice. These dialogues questioned both the idealized perspectives of indigenous law and the universalist perspectives of women’s rights.
La Antropología Jurídica feminista y sus aportes al trabajo forense con familiares de desaparecidos
In this article, the author reflects on her experience as part of the Research Group on Social and Forensic Anthropology (GIASF) in following the search for relatives of the disappeared. The work with “Las Buscadoras de El Fuerte” is analyzed, an organization that, like many in Mexico, is made up mostly of mothers and wives of disappeared persons who, given the inability of the Mexican State, have given themselves the task of searching for human remains of their relatives in clandestine graves. Based on testimonies and ethnographic registration, the limits and possibilities of feminist legal anthropology are analyzed for the co-production of knowledge that are useful in contexts of multiple violence and impunity.
Diálogos entre la Antropología Social y las Ciencias Forenses
This article corresponds to the introduction of the special issue of AbyaYala, where the authors try to share their reflections on the challenges and possibilities of building epistemic and political bridges, between social anthropology and forensic science. Based on their own collaborative research experiences with groups of relatives of the disappeared in Mexico, they reflect on the methodological strategies and theoretical perspectives that they have developed as members of the Research Group on Forensic and Social Anthropology (GIASF).
The Challenges of Activist Feminist Anthropology in the Context of Forced Disappearance
In this article, the author reflects on the contributions that Legal Anthropology can make to the contexts of enforced disappearance and the analysis of extreme violence, building an analytical link between the global processes of militarization and the contexts of impunity and the violent masculinities that make disappearance possible. The author uses the case study of relatives of the disappeared in northern Sinaloa and the challenges they face in their searches.
Hacia una antropología socialmente comprometida desde una perspectiva dialógica y feminista
In this chapter, the author presents ideas about the methodological and political challenges involved in the practice of a socially engaged feminist anthropology in the contemporary Latin American context. In my experience as an academic and as an activist who has worked for more than two decades in favor of women’s rights in contexts of cultural diversity, I have had to face both the disqualifications of the positivist academy and the distrust of anti-academic activism. The reflections presented here are intended to respond to these two positions claiming the epistemological richness involved in doing research in partnership or collaboration with social movements and, at the same time, stating that social research can contribute to the development of critical thinking and the destabilization of the speeches of power, thus contributing to the struggle of the movements that work for social justice.
Transcontinental Dialogues Activist Alliances With Indigenous Peoples Of Canada, Mexico, And Australia
Transcontinental Dialogues brings together indigenous and non-indigenous anthropologists from Mexico, Canada, and Australia who work at the intersections of indigenous rights, defense and research in action. It presents a set of chapters that do not take the usual political or geographical paradigms as a starting point; instead, the particular dialogues of the margins presented in this book arise from a rejection of the geographical hierarchy of knowledge in which the Global South continues to be the space for fieldwork, while the Global North is the place for its systematization and theorization.
Feminismos a la Contra
This chapter is part of the latest book by the Mexican sociologist Luis Martínez Andrade, in which he presents a neat and provocative navigation through some of the most incisive views of feminisms from the Global South, that South that is sometimes found in the South and which others also live in the cities of the Global North.
La Guerra contra el Narco
In this chapter I am interested in reflecting on the impact that the so-called war against drugs is having on the bodies and territories of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Taking as an analytical window the life stories of women victims of sexual violence in militarized and paramilitarized regions, as well as the stories of exclusion of indigenous women imprisoned in the framework of the fight against drug trafficking, I want to establish a link between occupation through rape of the bodies of indigenous women, their control and imprisonment, with the occupation of their territories and the dispossession of their natural resources.