Mujeres y organización comunitaria. El caso de las palmeadoras de Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, México
Native women in Mexico engage in organizing dynamics that allow them to provide for their families. This paper identifies the individual and collective benefits of organizational processes for the women who belong to the Unión de Palmeadoras de la Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico. These wo...
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Aggiungi Tag | Riassunto: | Native women in Mexico engage in organizing dynamics that allow them to provide for their families. This paper identifies the individual and collective benefits of organizational processes for the women who belong to the Unión de Palmeadoras de la Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico. These women make handmade tortillas for household consumption and sale. Data were obtained between May 2015 and January 2017 through a combination of fieldwork techniques: interviews, workshops, participant observation, sale registers during a 20-day period, and a census of the whole organization. Two individual benefits were identified: guaranteed selling spots; barter opportunities while at the market. Three collective benefits were identified: daily availability of handmade tortillas; the mobilization of the local economy; the permanence of the palmeadora trade. The paper concludes that the organization was created due to the discrimination faced by these women. However, a lot remains to be done since their selling spots are inappropriate and their working conditions continue to be precarious. |
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