The Peace Vernacular Epistemologies of CONAMI
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2022-03-31
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Vences Estudillo, Alaide
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This collaborative research dismantles prevalent ideas around Indigenous peoples’ epistemologies on peace, arguing that the epistemologies that Indigenous peoples have built about peace do not correspond to the past but rather are evolutionary. Indigenous women play a central role revitalizing the worldviews of their peoples. As an example, I recover the knowledge that the members of the National Coordination of Indigenous Women (CONAMI) built through their collective struggle in favor of Indigenous self-determination, aligning their fundamental rights as women with the rights of their peoples. CONAMI has been an example of a solid political space, in Mexico, and perhaps in the world, supporting women to reclaim and re-signify their Indigenous roots, resisting against past and contemporaneous forms of colonization. The main participants of this research weave community networks, negotiate with multiple actors and intervene in different spaces to push forward the structural eradication of racism, sexism, and ageism.
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peace epistemologies, Indigenous women