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The process continues until the sun dies: organization and struggles of the Nasa women of Toribío, Cauca

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No. 21 (2024): Junio
https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2024.75187

Abstract

This article analyzes the political work of the Movimiento de Mujeres Nasa Hilando Pensamiento from Toribío (Cauca, Colombia), a collective that was born in 2017 to defend the rights of Nasa women and their body-territory. It seeks to highlight the daily struggles of its members and the difficulties involved in sustaining their organization in a hostile context due to both community patriarchal violence and war. The methodology is qualitative, it assumes an intersectional approach to understand in a situated way the experiences of violence that women experience because of the interweaving of different systems of oppression. The study argues that the Movement, despite the patriarchal Nasa structures, the ethnic fundamentalisms of the special indigenous justice and the armed conflict, has undertaken a collective process of political formation and spiritual strengthening that has led to changes at the community and family level, although the path it's long and painful

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indigenous women, community feminism, Colombian armed conflict, patriarchal violence, nasa community

Author Biography

Solange Bonilla Valencia, Universidad Iberoamericana

Socióloga, especialista en Cultura de Paz y DIH, y magíster en Construcción de Paz. Actualmente se encuentra estudiando el Doctorado en Antropología Social en la Universidad Iberoamericana, México.

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Bonilla Valencia, S. (2024). The process continues until the sun dies: organization and struggles of the Nasa women of Toribío, Cauca. Revista Punto Género, (21), pp. 393–429. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2024.75187
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