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Indigenous women continue to be imagined as passive subjects at the margins of political decision-making, but they are in fact dynamic actors who shape state sovereignty and domestic and international politics. Manuela Lavinas Picq uses the case of Kichwa women successfully advocating for gender parity in the administration of Indigenous justice in Ecuador to show how Indigenous women can influence world politics

This article reviews three recent books that challenge conventional ways of doing International Relations. The rich arguments deployed in these books provide different yet complementary perspectives that can help us to rethink International Relations. They share a concern over what they regard as International Relations' entrenched coloniality and disciplinary straitjacket. They challenge what they identify as the hegemonic practices of conventional knowledge production that exclude alternative ways of knowing the international. They explore how International Relations is produced in the non-core and how personal narratives are embedded in theory-making, and question the claims to science of conventional methodologies. Yet, if all three books contribute to a praiseworthy attempt to trespass disciplinary boundaries, they also perpetuate hegemonic silences by failing adequately to engage with gender and indigenous perspectives.

AbstractThis article examines the challenges and opportunities of indigenous justice for women in Ecuador. The legal recognition of indigenous justice is a major component of democratization in the region. Yet it also raises the risk of institutionalizing detrimental gender biases within indigenous forms of law. Taking the Remache case as a point of departure, this article identifies some of the fault lines in legal pluralism and women's conflicted relationship with it. Rather than rejecting customary law, however, women advocate for their rights within it—lobbying for gender parity within indigenous justice in the 2008 Constitutional Assembly. As women's support for indigenous justice relocates legal authority, it also challenges conventional practices of state sovereignty. To understand the attractiveness of legal pluralism for women and its impact on the state, this study explores the confines of feminist alliances, the accessibility of indigenous justice, and its implications for state sovereignty.

1. Human rights, LGBT rights, and international theory / Anthony J. Langlois -- 2. To love or to loathe : modernity, homophobia, and LGBT rights / Michael J. Bosia -- 3. LGBT and (Dis)United Nations : sexual and gender minorities, international law, and UN politics / Francine D'Amico -- 4. Transversal and particularistic politics in the European Union's antidiscrimination policy : LGBT politics under neoliberalism / Markus Thiel -- 5. Sexual diffusions and conceptual confusions : Muslim homophobia and Muslim homosexualities in the context of modernity / Momin Rahman -- 6. Peripheral prides : Amazon perspectives on LGBT politics / Manuela Lavinas Picq -- 7. Between the universal and the particular : the politics of recognition of LGBT rights in Turkey / Mehmet Sinan Birdal -- 8. Queering security studies in Northern Ireland : problem, practice, and practitioner / Sandra McEvoy.

Si la reconnaissance légale de la justice indigène reste une composante majeure de la démocratisation en Amérique latine, il se trouve que la loi coutumière n'est pas forcément favorable aux femmes. En Équateur, en 2008, les Amérindiennes ont saisi l'opportunité offerte par la tenue d'une Assemblée constitutionnelle, pour revendiquer l'intégration de l'équité de genre dans la loi coutumière. Ainsi, le soutien apporté par ces femmes à la justice indigène non seulement propose une configuration démocratique nouvelle, plus diverse, mais il constitue également un véritable défi pour les conventions existantes en termes de pratiques citoyennes. Pour saisir en quoi les femmes peuvent avoir intérêt à ce pluralisme légal, et quel impact ce dernier a sur l'État, cet article revient sur le paradoxe de la difficile alliance entre féministes et Amérindiennes ainsi que sur la question de l'accessibilité des systèmes de justice coutumière.

The essay reviews the evolution of the EU-Caribbean region bilateral relation under the African, Caribbean & Pacific Group of Nations mechanism, from the Convention of Lome to the recent Cotonou Agreement, with special reference to Cuba. The bilateral relationship has evolved from a paternalistic & preferential position to a more pragmatic & free trade oriented approach. The Caribbean region faces the challenge of accelerating its integration in a single block, in order to reap the benefits of the new accord, & to avoid the disparities of negotiating separately under a renewed context of globalization. Adapted from the source document.