Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Primary Theme: Resistance

Secondary Theme: Resilience

(4-0025) An Anthropology of Resistance should be Radical, Queer, Feminist, Anti-Racist, Immigrant, Decolonial, and Accessible: the complex struggles and experiences of Guatemala, Mexico and the U.S.

This panel aims to bridge the work among scholars from various subfields of anthropology to contest contemporary insurgent issues facing global Latin America and the United States.
We explore diverse forms of resistance that are characterized for their different geographies , methodologies, and themes such as sexuality, race, gender, political economy, memory, history, immigration, and medicine. The papers share the effort of centering and honoring historically peripheral voices in order to subvert colonial, racial, gendered and capitalist violence. The diverse presentations seek to arrive at a common ground in which to bridge struggles of Resistance through Anthropological methods with a critical lense. We will discuss the ways in which we are decolonizing the discipline and thinking of alternative ways of knowledge production and solidarity mechanisms between scholars and the communities we collaborate with. Thus, we are arguing for an Anthropology that is not only critical but also radical, decolonial, immigrant, anti-racist, feminist, queer, and accessible.

Organizer(s)

• Meztli Rodriguez

  The University of Texas at Austin

Presenter(s)

• Meztli Rodriguez

  The University of Texas at Austin

Chair(s)

• Manuel Galaviz

  U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Program Fellow
  University of Texas at Austin

Presenter(s)

• Manuel Galaviz

  U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Program Fellow
  University of Texas at Austin

• Noe Lopez

  University of Texas at Austin

Discussant(s)

• Elizabeth Velasquez Estrada

  Visiting Professor
  The Evergreen State College

Presenter(s)

• Blanca Pacheco

• Adriana Linares-Palma

  The University of Texas at Austin

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

  Afrodescendant Women and Every-Day Resistances in Mexico Against Racialized Necropolitics
  Meztli Yoalli Rodriguez – The University of Texas at Austin
• 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

  Militarized and Racialized Atmospheres: Chicanx Struggles for Public Park Space in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
  Manuel Guadalupe Galaviz – University of Texas at Austin
• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

  Sex as a Colonial Tool: Queering the Mexican Mestizo Man in the Land of Rain
  Noe Lopez – University of Texas at Austin
• 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

  Existing is Resisting: The Xinka people’s Everyday Healing Practices and Knowledge as Tools for Existence and Resistance
  Blanca A. Pacheco
• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

  Privatization of Culture: The Politics Behind Archaeological Research in Guatemala
  Adriana Maria Linares-Palma – The University of Texas at Austin
• 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

  Discussion
  Elizabeth Velasquez Estrada – The Evergreen State College