Abstract

LINARES SANCHEZ, Betsy Malely  and  POSTIGO GOMEZ, Inmaculada. P'urhépecha Women: Word, Territory, and Autonomy Defenders. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2023, vol.31, n.1, e81239.  Epub Jan 01, 2023. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9584-2023v31n181239.

This article addresses the role of P'urhépecha women in Cheran, a Mexican geostrategic area where, through an uprising on April 15th 2011, they recovered the territory occupied by organized crime and drug trafficking that had devastated a third of the forests. With this action, P'urhépecha women also recovered the communication system of community sociocultural structures for their anti-systemic autonomic project and their uses and customs. By using ethnographic methods, interviews, oral history, and territory-body mapping for gender-based analysis, this qualitative study aims to understand the relationship between indigenous feminism and communication for the construction of alternative modernities.

Keywords : Indigenous peoples; Feminism; Communication; Social movements; México.

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