Gender and knowledge in dialogue between activist lawyers and social actors in the struggles of indigenous communities: the experience of the Colectivo Emancipaciones
Abstract
In this article we explore how we build our relationships with the actors in the struggles of indigenous communities for self-determination, as militant women lawyers and members of Emancipaciones. Colectivo de Estudios Críticos Sobre Derecho y Humanidades, focusing on how we partake knowledge in dialogue. These reflections start from a gendered perspective, that is, we focus on how gender roles determine interactions. Additionally, this work is written from an intersectional viewpoint and it is the product of situated knowledge. Thus, more than analyzing indigenous women’s struggles, we analyze our own practice of law in specific contexts: the work with indigenous communities, in state institutions and in the academic field. This contribution is based on an auto-ethnographic methodology, and on the construction of texts in a collaborative manner, based on dialogues between the authors mediated by academic experiences.