Alumnae Engagement
GSWS Colloquia Presents Rocío del Águila Gracey
Location
Boswell Hall (formerly Morton Hall), Room 314100 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
- Free food
- Open to the public
Resistance of indigenous women in Peruvian and Central American documentaries: A reading from the ethics of care and solidarity
In this talk I analyze and compare the Latin American documentaries Máxima by Claudia Sparrow (Peru 2019), Sembradoras de vida by Diego and Alvaro Sarmiento (Peru 2019), Berta Vive by Katia Lara (Honduras 2016), Las semillas de Berta (2021) from the journalists group CONTRAST and Cura de la Tierra Guatemala from Cura da Terra (2021). My analysis seeks to understand how state and/or patriarchal violence (Franco 2013, Segato 2016, Lugones 2008) marked the bodies of indigenous women and their territory while that same violence served as a starting point for environmental activism and female resistance. In this way, I want to think critically about ethics of care (Held 2006 and Cavarero 2016) and feminist solidarity (Talpade Mohanty 2003) as tools for denouncing state/patriarchal violence in the processes of reparation, justice, utopia, and the formation of women’s collective struggles.
Sponsored by: Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies