Rights to the rescue? The promotion of Indigenous women's political-electoral rights and the rise of the Mexican security state

Rights to the rescue? The promotion of Indigenous women's political-electoral rights and the rise of the Mexican security state. WORTHEN, H. Political Geography, 85:e102279, 2021.

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This article demonstrates how the promotion of Indigenous women’s political-electoral rights in Mexico has furthered a conservative agenda of state securitization. To do so, it presents a discourse analysis of national media reports focused on the story of Eufrosina Cruz, a Zapotec woman who became the figurehead for state-led initiatives to promote Indigenous women’s rights. It argues that a colonial rescue narrative constructed through Cruz’s figure helped generate new hegemonic discourses of gendered indigeneity that portrayed Indigenous peoples’ alternative political practices and spaces as anti-democratic and illegal. In an era where advancements in party democracy were linked to processes of state securitization, these categorizations helped justify new forms of state intervention into Indigenous peoples’ lives. By exploring how rights initiatives were discursively constructed through racialized, spatialized and gendered constructions of indigeneity, this article contributes to a critical geography of indigeneity within political geography.

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