ABSTRACT

This article examines the connection between Indigenous women’s bodies, their relationship to land and resistance to resource extraction in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. First, I explore the processes and practices through which natural resource extraction is expanded into the Global South to demonstrate that Indigenous lands are produced as wastelands that only acquire value through settler states’ imposition of land uses and ownership. Second, I show how Indigenous relations to land are simultaneously central to Indigenous struggles against territorial dispossession and Indigenous women’s struggles against gendered violence. Operationalising the concept of ‘body land’, I illustrate how relationships to territory are constituted and fragmented over time, shaping Indigenous women’s embodied experiences and transformational political capacities.

摘要

本文考察了墨西哥特万特佩克地峡中土著妇女的身体、她们与土地的关系以及对资源开采的抵制之间的联系。首先，我探索了将自然资源开采扩展到全球南方的过程和实践，以证明原住民土地是作为荒地生产的，只有通过定居者国家对土地使用和所有权的强加才能获得价值。其次，我展示了土著与土地的关系如何同时成为土著反对领土剥夺的斗争和土著妇女反对性别暴力的斗争的核心。运用“身体土地”的概念，我说明了与领土的关系是如何随着时间的推移而构成和分裂的，