From the sistema de cargos to the 69th general assembly of United Nations. The experience of indigenous women and the decolonial perspective on international diplomacy
Abstract
This article compares the life and work of Sofía Robles Hernández, a Zapotecan activist, with the experience of Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza, a zapotecan woman, focusing on their struggle for social and political recognition in the transnational movement of indigenous people. The article reflects on both women’s autoethnographic analyses in order to shed light on their political and ethical tensions and challenges. The latter originate the formation of a “body-territory” that, voicing the two women’s claim to autonomy and selfdetermination, brings to the fore their different approaches to the economic policies of the neoliberal Pluricultural State of Mexico. The article also focuses on the indigenous women’s struggle for political rights within the international juridical discourse. After many years, in fact, a diplomatic agenda now addresses the right of indigenous women to fight for decolonization.
Keywords: U.N.; Indigenous Women; Economic Inequality; International Diplomacy; Transnational Autonomy
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