'Together We Have Power': Personal Traumas and Political Responses among Activist Oaxaquenas
In: Latin American perspectives, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 72-88
ISSN: 1552-678X
Activist Oaxacan women's lived experiences of trauma and violence have shaped their participation in indigenous-led anti-neoliberal organizing. The multifaceted dimensions of violence they experience-which are at once deeply structural and personal-have produced an intimate, embodied form of oppositional consciousness among them. The traumas of daily life are simultaneously racialized, gendered, and classed, and these embodied experiences can, and sometimes do, produce political responses among women. As they engage in activism that challenges capitalist incursions in the countryside, they are able to link the various traumas they face and, in so doing, become more effective protagonists in their interconnected journeys toward personal and structural emancipation. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]