Demanding Justice and Security Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America

"Demanding Justice and Security offers a panoramic view of Latin American indigenous women's strategies for combating gendered violence and of creating constructive justice alternatives grounded in indigenous concepts of collective rights and autonomy. Beautifully written ethnography and crisp theory make this a particularly useful classroom book."
- Lynn Stephen (author of We are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements) "Demanding Justice and Security constitutes a milestone in the study of indigenous women's organizing, understanding and engaging legal pluralities in Latin America. Drawing on rich fieldwork from Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala, the authors of this collaborative research-action experience have crafted an outstanding multi-sited ethnography of gender, violence, injustice and insecurity in these countries. This remarkable volume allows for a unique opportunity to consider structural violence and its comparative effects on the gendered body politic."
- Pamela Calla (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University) "Demanding Justice and Security...brings into focus communities often overlooked in much of the research on political institutions, particularly in political science. An important contribution of this work is its emphasis on intersectionality: the ways that indigenous women negotiate multiple identities of class, gender, and ethnicity and their struggles to balance gender and ethnic claims." (Politics & Gender)