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OverviewIn Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women's activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork spent accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance. Blackwell shows how activists in Mexico and those in the migrant stream that runs from Oaxaca into California redefined women's roles in community decision-making. They did so by scaling down Indigenous autonomy to their own bodies, homes, and communities; grounding their political claims within Indigenous epistemologies and the gendered nature of social organization; and scaling up to regional, national, and continental contexts. This allowed them to place themselves at the heart of Indigenous resistance and autonomy, decolonizing gender hierarchies and creating new scales of participation. Blackwell reveals the importance of moving across different types of scale and contrasting colonial divisions of scale itself with Indigenous conceptions of scale, space, solidarity, and connection. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maylei BlackwellPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9781478017967ISBN 10: 1478017961 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 12 May 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Abbreviations xi Prelude. Walking Together: The Politics of Acompañamiento xv Introduction 1 1. The Multiscalar Practice of Autonomy in Mexico 41 2. Abiayala as Scale 96 3. Rebellion at the Roots 143 4. Transborder Geographies of Difference 193 5. Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity 230 Coda. The Subterranean Life Seeds 258 Notes 297 References 313 Index 349Reviews"""In Scales of Resistance, Blackwell rethinks scale beyond solely its colonial and masculinist forms by centering Indigenous women’s organizing and geographies. By highlighting the work that Indigenous women (sometimes migrants) do at varying scales, as well as the creation of new scales based on their readings of power in different places and their own cosmovisions, Blackwell’s book is an important corrective to scalar analyses that invisibilize marginalized actors."" -- Rebekah Kartal * Antipode * ""Overall, Scales of Resistance is an invaluable contribution to social science and humanities literature. Blackwell’s rigorous analyses and insightful observations provide amuch-needed account of the vital roles of Indigenous women’s agency and activism in the Americas and in what will always be their forever home. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals."" -- T. M. Montoya * Choice *" """In Scales of Resistance, Blackwell rethinks scale beyond solely its colonial and masculinist forms by centering Indigenous women’s organizing and geographies. By highlighting the work that Indigenous women (sometimes migrants) do at varying scales, as well as the creation of new scales based on their readings of power in different places and their own cosmovisions, Blackwell’s book is an important corrective to scalar analyses that invisibilize marginalized actors."" -- Rebekah Kartal * Antipode *" Author InformationMaylei Blackwell is Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, author of ¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement, and coeditor of Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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