This article attempts to undertake a reading of gender as it oper ates in bolivias juridical history, in order to. Oct 16, 2007 in an interview conducted during her recent stay in pittsburgh. Silvia rivera cusicanqui, violencias reencubiertas en bolivia. Rivera, who identified as a transgender woman, participated in demonstrations with the gay liberation front with close friend marsha p. Silvia rivera cusicanqui explores the possibilities for decolonization through an analysis of the multicultural state as an ongoing practice of coloniality that recognizes and incorporates indigenous people but only as static, archaic figures defined by a continuous relationship to an idealized past. Silvia rivera cusicanqui, violence and interculturality. Pdf silvia rivera cusicanqui, violence and interculturality. Coleccion coordinada por xavier albo y raul barrios. Peasantstrugglesamongtheaymara andqhechwainbolivia,19001980geneva. An interview with silvia rivera cusicanqui keywords. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as quechua and aymara cosmologies.
Oct 25, 2016 silvia rivera cusicanqui is an aymara activist, sociologist, and oral historian who has worked with indigenous movements in bolivia over the last four decades. Indigenous peoples and women in bolivia silvia rivera cusicanqui search for other works by this author on. Una reflexin sobre prcticas y discursos descolonizadores, edici n. Translation article pdf available january 2014 with 983 reads. Johnson, rivera cofounded the street transvestite action revolutionaries star. Silvia rivera cusicanqui en buenos aires 2018 parte 1. Una reflexion sobre practicas y discursos descolonizadores. Simultaneously, the notion of origin refers us to a past imagined as quiet, static. Silvia rivera cusicanqui is an aymara activist, sociologist, and oral historian who has worked with indigenous movements in bolivia over the last four decades. But not in the sense of a past that is dead, incapable of renovation.
Silvia rivera cusicanqui chixinakax utxiwa addeddate 20160610 10. Silvia rivera cusicanqui born 1949 is a bolivian feminist, sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist. A reflection on the practices and discourses of decolonization. Aymara historian silvia rivera cusicanqui is a member and past director of the andean oral history.
Descarga pdf silvia rivera cusicanqui 2010, chixinakax utxiwa. Silvia rivera cusicanqui is a bolivian sociologist and activist of aymaran ancestry, with links to the indigenous katarista movement and to that of coca growers. Silvia rivera cusicanqui, violencias reencubiertas en. Sylvia rivera july 2, 1951 february 19, 2002 was a latina american gay liberation and transgender rights activist, prominent as an activist and community worker in new york. Chixinakax utxiwa ection on the practices and discourses. In an interview conducted during her recent stay in pittsburgh. The notion of rights and the paradoxes of postcolonial. The historical horizons of internal colonialism by.
Decolonizing the person, the image, and the collective global. For author silvia rivera cusicanqui 9 that question in the context of latin america requires understanding that colonialism assigns a very peculiar function to words. For many mestizo people of mixed spanish and indigenous blood from south america, identification with their native heritage has been difficult to imagine, let alone realize. Her work provides a valuable critique of certain forms of indigenous identity politics, and a balance sheet of anticolonial struggles in the country more broadly. United nations research institute for social development, 1987. Silvia rivera cusicanquis work has also addressed the relation between indigenous and feminist struggles, highlighting the shared underpinning dynamics between westernisation and patriarchy in gender systems. Rivera cusicanqui silvia pueblos originarios y estado. The notion of rights and the paradoxes of postcolonial modernity. Chixinakax utxiwa ection on the practices and discourses of. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Silvia rivera cusicanqui violencias reencubiertas en. For cusicanqui, the uneasiness her term that inspired her to recover her indigenous roots. I n d i c e 7 25 33 39 64 111 3 175 claroscuro andino. It implies that this world can be changed, a past that can also be the future.