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Horizonte

No. 06 (2020)

Co-theorization work in militant legal anthropology. Experiences from the struggles for indigenous self-government in México

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22201/udir.2954341xp.116
Submitted
September 18, 2020
Published
2020-11-13

Abstract

Is it possible to overcome the gap between knowledge as required by social struggles and knowledge as inertly produced by academia? Can the leading actors of resistance processes contribute theoretical and conceptual innovations to social sciences? Can allyship with the struggles of subaltern groups improve our comprehension of socio-legal phenomenons and renew Mexican legal studies? This contribution aims to answer these questions. I draw on my activist experience with several indigenous communities in Michoacán, Guerrero and Chiapas, who, over the past years, have upraised and practiced their right to self-government. In this article I aim, then, to show the potential of the intellectual project of militant legal anthropology, that I have built over the last few years, to successfully face these challenges, focusing the dicussion on a widened idea of epistemic justice.

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