Gendered violences and resistances to development: body, land, territory, and violences against women in postwar Guatemala

Q1 Social Sciences

Gender and Development Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI:10.1080/13552074.2021.1979798

Julia Hartviksen

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ABSTRACT This article explores the relationships between violences against women (VAW) and rural development in the context of postwar Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip region (FTN). How might we understand the relationships between postwar development, its gendered implications, and VAW in this context? What are the implications of these entanglements for feminist activism? The article explores this question in a twofold way. First, drawing on decolonial and feminist political economic critiques, it broadens the understanding of VAW in relation to development, informed by decolonial, communitarian, and territorial perspectives of bodies, land, and territory. Second, in contending that colonial and neocolonial dispossessions linked to development are linked with VAW, it suggests that these relationships shape women’s defence of land and territories as well as the strategies women community leaders pursue in resisting VAW. Focusing on the impacts of palm oil cultivation in Maya Q’eqchi’ communities in the FTN, it highlights the overlapping interests and strategies for feminist activism, highlighting the webbed interconnections between struggles for land and territory and struggles for justice and an end to VAW as they manifested empirically through the research.

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性别暴力和对发展的抵制：战后危地马拉的身体、土地、领土和对妇女的暴力

本文以战后危地马拉北部横贯地带(FTN)为背景，探讨对妇女的暴力行为(VAW)与农村发展之间的关系。在这种背景下，我们如何理解战后发展、其性别含义和妇女暴力之间的关系?这些纠缠对女权主义运动有什么影响?本文从两个方面探讨了这个问题。首先，它借鉴了非殖民主义和女权主义的政治经济批评，通过对身体、土地和领土的非殖民主义、社群主义和领土观点，拓宽了对妇女暴力与发展的理解。第二，在论述与发展有关的殖民和新殖民剥夺与暴力侵害有关时，报告指出，这些关系决定了妇女对土地和领土的捍卫以及妇女社区领导人在抵制暴力侵害方面采取的战略。重点关注棕榈油种植对FTN中玛雅Q ' eqchi '社区的影响，它强调了女权主义活动的重叠利益和策略，强调了土地和领土斗争与正义斗争之间的网络相互联系，并通过研究经验证明了这一点。

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Gender and Development Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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