In Latin America, rural and indigenous women have mobilised in defence of their territories and built strategic alliances with urban and mestiza feminist movements. This paper focuses on how these processes have played out in Peru, tracing the development of the discourse on ‘body as territory’, which articulates sexual and reproductive rights with territorial autonomy. It discusses the ‘cosmopolitics’ of translating the distinct concerns and worldviews of the women involved, arguing that this discourse has enabled partial recognition and strategic equivalencing but that it has failed to fundamentally transform the underlying asymmetric relations of power and privilege.
@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-202104133660,
author ={Leinius, Johanna},
title ={Articulating Body, Territory, and the Defence of Life: The Politics of Strategic Equivalencing between Women in Anti‐Mining Movements and the Feminist Movement in Peru},
keywords ={300 and 320 and Peru and Lateinamerika and Frauenbewegung and Ontologie and Politik and Soziale Bewegung and Frau and Aktivismus},
copyright ={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/},
language ={en},
journal ={Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR)},
year ={2020-09-16}
}