ABSTRACT
In recent decades, indigenous populations have become the subjects and agents of development in national and international multicultural policy that acknowledges poverty among indigenous peoples and their historic marginalization from power over development. Although the impact of these legal and programmatic efforts is growing, one persistent axis of disadvantage, malefemale difference, is rarely taken into account in ethno-development policy and practice. This article argues that assumptions that inform policy related to indigenous women fail to engage with indigenous women's development concerns. The institutional separation between gender and development policy (GAD) and multiculturalism means that provisions for gender in multicultural policies are inadequate, and ethnic rights in GAD policies are invisible. Drawing on post-colonial feminism, the paper examines ethnicity and gender as interlocking systems that structure indigenous women's development experiences. These arguments are illustrated in relation to the case of the Tsáchila ethno-cultural group in the South American country of Ecuador.
Subject(s)
Gender Identity , Indians, South American , Social Change , Socioeconomic Factors , Women , Agriculture/economics , Agriculture/education , Agriculture/history , Agriculture/legislation & jurisprudence , Ecuador/ethnology , Ethnicity/education , Ethnicity/ethnology , Ethnicity/history , Ethnicity/legislation & jurisprudence , Ethnicity/psychology , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Indians, South American/education , Indians, South American/ethnology , Indians, South American/history , Indians, South American/legislation & jurisprudence , Indians, South American/psychology , Poverty Areas , Social Change/history , Socioeconomic Factors/history , Women/education , Women/history , Women/psychology , Women's Health/ethnology , Women's Health/historyABSTRACT
Este artículo establece un marco conceptual interdisciplinario, que imbrica las propuestas discursivas con los procesos políticos acerca de la construcción de identidad definidos en la ciencia política, la sociologíay la antropología, y, además, los combina con estructuras geográficas en espacio y en escala. Nuestro esfuerzo reafirma el llamado de Perreault (2003) para analizar el lugar de constitución de la identidad, a través de la interacción transnacional...