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February 12, 2026Latin American Perspectives0 citations

Demanding Sovereignty, Resisting Patriarchy: Indigenous Territorial Feminism in the TIPNIS Conflict, Bolivia

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ALAnna F. Laing

Key Points

  • The article aims to explore the role of Indigenous women in the TIPNIS conflict, focusing on how they challenge gender norms and assert territorial sovereignty.
  • Ethnographic analysis of the TIPNIS conflict
  • Examination of Indigenous women's leadership roles
  • Analysis of cultural and political contexts
  • Indigenous women were central in advocating for territorial sovereignty
  • They reshaped gender roles within the lowland Indigenous movement
  • A dual resistance was observed against colonial capitalism and patriarchal oppression

Abstract

This article examines the leadership of Indigenous women in Bolivia’s 2011-2012 TIPNIS conflict through the lens of Ulloa’s concept of territorial feminisms, emphasizing cuerpo-territorio (body-territory). It explores how women positioned themselves at the center of the struggle for territorial sovereignty, simultaneously challenging and reshaping gender roles within the lowland Indigenous movement. Through ethnographic analysis, this study highlights the often-overlooked agency of women in Bolivia’s Amazonian movement and the importance of situating territorial feminisms within their specific cultural and political contexts. Indigenous women enacted a dual resistance: as Indigenous peoples opposing colonial and capitalist encroachments, and as women fighting against patriarchal domination by the state and within their own representative organizations. Este artículo examina el liderazgo de las mujeres indígenas en el conflicto del TIPNIS en Bolivia (2011-2012) a través del prisma del concepto de feminismos territoriales de Ulloa, con énfasis en la noción de cuerpo-territorio. Analiza cómo las mujeres se situaron en el centro de la lucha por la soberanía territorial, desafiando y reconfigurando simultáneamente los roles de género dentro del movimiento indígena de las tierras bajas. A partir de un análisis etnográfico, el estudio pone de relieve la agencia, a menudo invisibilizada, de las mujeres en el movimiento amazónico boliviano, así como la importancia de situar los feminismos territoriales en sus contextos culturales y políticos específicos. Las mujeres indígenas desplegaron una resistencia dual: como pueblos indígenas que se oponen a las incursiones coloniales y capitalistas, y como mujeres que luchan contra la dominación patriarcal tanto del Estado como al interior de sus propias organizaciones representativas.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/698d6de45be6419ac0d532a7https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582x251414631
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