Ethnic Boundary-Making and the Gendered Politics of Belonging along the Ecuador-Colombia Borderland
- Authors
- Zaragocin, Sofia
- Format
- DoctoralThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
This dissertation focuses on the effects of processes of ethnic elimination on the intimate spaces, sexuality and bodies of indigenous women belonging to a bi-national indigenous group along the Ecuador-Colombia borderland. Eperara Siapidaara (also known as Epera) women experience multiple levels of violence culminating in ethnic elimination, triggered by settler colonial dynamics along a highly militarised geopolitical border. The thesis focuses on the Epera women?s struggles to confront overlapping geopolitical forms of violence, resulting from a masculinised ethnic sovereignty that arises in the interactions between the Ecuadorian State (government and military) and Epera men. The thesis focuses on the strategies of ethnic purity used by Epera men and women to counter the process of ethnic elimination. The forms taken by purifying practices regulate women?s lives as well as their position as boundarymakers in spatial registers as amechanism to assure the continuity of their ethnics
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- GEOGRAF?A FEMINISTA
GEOPOL?TICA FEMINISTA
COLONIALIDAD DE COLONOS
PUEBLOS BI-NACIONALES
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License