Digging for Hope is a feminist ethnography based on nearly a decade of fieldwork with women-led search collectives in Mexico. R. Aída Hernández Castillo examines how these women confront disappearance through practices of exhumation, mourning, and collective remembrance, transforming grief into political action. The book explores a “pedagogy of love” grounded in care, solidarity, and memory, showing how search collectives create new forms of justice, resistance, and community while restoring dignity to the disappeared. It offers a powerful perspective on the gendered impacts of violence and the role of grassroots movements in challenging impunity.

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Transcontinental Dialogues brings together indigenous and non-indigenous anthropologists from Mexico, Canada, and Australia who work at the intersections of indigenous rights, defense and research in action. It presents a set of chapters that do not take the usual political or geographical paradigms as a starting point; instead, the particular dialogues of the margins presented in this book arise from a rejection of the geographical hierarchy of knowledge in which the Global South continues to be the space for fieldwork, while the Global North is the place for its systematization and theorization.

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This book recovers twenty-four years of activism and research with indigenous women’s organizations in Latin America. The author, a feminist and critical anthropologist, analyzes the context of legal pluralism in which indigenous women from Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia fight for justice. Through ethnographic research in spaces of legal pluralism, the author reflects on the possibilities and limitations of indigenous, national and international law for indigenous women, within the contexts of colonialism, racism and patriarchal violence. It concludes that the theories of indigenous women about culture, tradition and gender equity, as expressed in political documents, event reports, public speeches, and their intellectual writings are key factors in the decolonization of Latin American feminisms and social justice for all.

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This is the second volume of the Revelación Intramuros collection. The book brings together the writings of eleven inmates who decided to face and share their experiences in seclusion. The authors participated in every stage of the process, from the conception of the themes that make up this collective creation, the illustrations, to the final stages of the editing process. They chose the themes and with the members of the Colectiva Editorial Hermanas en la Sombra, they worked on developing the content collectively. Writings of the first phase were published in the gazette. Some texts that were produced in the workshop Stories of Life coordinated by R. Aída Hernández, appear in the book Fragmentos de Mujer (Fragments of Women), published by Marina Ruiz, others are published in the book Mareas Cautivas (Captive Tides), in addition to texts produced in the workshop of the Colectiva Editorial Hermanas en la Sombra and exercises which guest artists have proposed in their visits to CERESO prison.

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The testimonies reproduced in this book tell us about a new moment in the history of the indigenous movements of Latin America, in which women are playing a fundamental role in the struggle of their communities. These are stories told in two voices because the testimonies of the indigenous leaders were woven with our own voices – as activists and researchers – who intend to give context to the stories told and complete the oral history, with the documentary history obtained many times from secondary sources.

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In the last decade, we have seen the emergence, in different regions of Latin America, of the organizational processes of indigenous women in which the collective demands of their peoples are combined with their specific gender demands. We have witnessed the emergence of a new political identity that is not diluted in the political identities of the Indian peoples or in the gender identities of feminist movements. This book aims to give an account of these new social movements, reconstructing the different trajectories of struggle and political genealogies that have marked the lives of organized indigenous women in Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia.

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In this timely ethnographic study, nine Mexican and U.S. anthropologists examine the achievements and challenges facing women participating in the Zapatista movement. In this collection, they bring together the knowledge of activists and anthropologists with long-term field experience in Mayan communities who explore the construction of and the significance of new collective identities among indigenous women. Through archival research and ethnographic data, the authors shed light on the emergence of gender-specific demands and the appropriation of discourses of human rights and women’s rights discourses by indigenous women.

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The Maya Indian peoples of Chiapas had been mobilizing politically for years before the Zapatista rebellion that brought them to international attention. This authoritative volume explores the different ways that Indians across Chiapas have carved out autonomous cultural and political spaces in their diverse communities and regions. Offering a consistent and cohesive vision of the complex evolution of a region and its many cultures and histories, this work is a fundamental source for understanding key issues in nation-building. In a unique collaboration, the book brings together recognized authorities who have worked in Chiapas for decades, many linking scholarships with social and political activism. Their combined perspectives, many previously unavailable in English, make this volume the most authoritative, richly detailed, and authentic work available on the people behind the Zapatista movement.

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