Publicación del Proyecto de Fortalecimiento Democrático del PNUD – Bolivia
No. 6, Julio – Octubre 2012
In this article, the author intends to share some reflections arising from the Mexican experience on the tensions between the collective rights of peoples and the rights of women, with the purpose of rethinking from a gender perspective the policies of cultural recognition of human collectives. The intensification of migratory flows from the south to the north and the emergence of important indigenous movements in the Americas have put the issue of cultural and political rights of these human groups on the table in recent decades and have come to question the universalist and liberal vision of citizenship. The demand for the cultural recognition of these groups and the reforms of the State to recognize the multicultural character of nations has reopened old anthropological debates about cultural relativism and conceptual universalism.