{"product_id":"scales-of-resistance-9781478017967","title":"Scales of Resistance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eScales of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales. Drawing on more than seventy testimonials and twenty years of fieldwork spent accompanying Indigenous women activists, Blackwell focuses on how these activists navigate the blockages to their participation and transform exclusionary spaces into scales of resistance. Blackwell shows how activists in Mexico and those in the migrant stream that runs from Oaxaca into California redefined women’s roles in community decision-making. They did so by scaling down Indigenous autonomy to their own bodies, homes, and communities; grounding their political claims within Indigenous epistemologies and the gendered nature of social organization; and scaling up to regional, national, and continental contexts. This allowed them to place themselves at the heart of Indigenous resistance and autonomy, deco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eScales of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, Blackwell rethinks scale beyond solely its colonial and masculinist forms by centering Indigenous women’s organizing and geographies. By highlighting the work that Indigenous women (sometimes migrants) do at varying scales, as well as the creation of new scales based on their readings of power in different places and their own cosmovisions, Blackwell’s book is an important corrective to scalar analyses that invisibilize marginalized actors.\" -- Rebekah Kartal * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003e\"Overall, \u003ci\u003eScales of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable contribution to social science and humanities literature. Blackwell’s rigorous analyses and insightful observations provide amuch-needed account of the vital roles of Indigenous women’s agency and activism in the Americas and in what will always be their forever home. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.\" -- T. M. Montoya * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The strength of the theoretical argument lies in the interaction between the various case studies explored in the chapters, as well as in their interrelation among struggles, allowing for an exploration of the different scales of indigenous women’s organization and considering them as interconnected rather than separated by national or political borders. ... While the opening up of the concepts of scale and boundary remains a major theoretical contribution, [\u003ci\u003eScales of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e] also subtly showcases the strength of indigenous women’s movements and their repertoire of rich, diverse, and unique actions, constituting an equally important empirical contribution.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Andreanne Brunet-Belanger * Journal of Borderlands Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  vii\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations  xi\u003cbr\u003e Prelude. Walking Together: The Politics of Acompañamiento  xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Multiscalar Practice of Autonomy in Mexico  41\u003cbr\u003e 2. Abiayala as Scale  96\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rebellion at the Roots  143\u003cbr\u003e 4. Transborder Geographies of Difference  193\u003cbr\u003e 5. Translocal Geographies of Indigeneity  230\u003cbr\u003e Coda. The Subterranean Life Seeds  258\u003cbr\u003e Notes  297\u003cbr\u003e References  313\u003cbr\u003e Index  349","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409007321431,"sku":"9781478017967","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017967.jpg?v=1730505067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scales-of-resistance-9781478017967","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}