Author’s contact: Manuela Lavinas Picq
Article accepted for publication at the Journal of Latin American Politics and Society (summer 2012)
manuelapicq@me.
com
Between the Dock and a Hard Place:
Hazards and Opportunities of Legal Pluralism for Indigenous...
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Author’s contact: Manuela Lavinas Picq
Article accepted for publication at the Journal of Latin American Politics and Society (summer 2012)
manuelapicq@me.
com
Between the Dock and a Hard Place:
Hazards and Opportunities of Legal Pluralism for Indigenous Women in Ecuador
Abstract
This article examines the challenges and opportunities of indigenous justice for women in Ecuador.
The
legal recognition of indigenous justice is a major component of democratization in the region.
Yet it
also raises the risk of institutionalizing detrimental gender biases within indigenous forms of law.
Taking the Remache case as a point of departure, this article identifies some of the fault lines with legal
pluralism and women’s conflicted relationship with it.
Rather than rejecting customary law, however,
women advocate for their rights within it—lobbying for gender parity within indigenous justice in the
2008 Constitutional Assembly.
As women’s support for indigenous justice relocates legal authority
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