Indigenous women in Mexico challenging interlegal boundaries in contexts of sociolegal locks

Abstract

The article will study the temporal space that spans from 1990 to 2000 on the silencing of indigenous women during the historical moment of the constitution of the indigenous normative system in the state of Oaxaca (Mexico). From a political history perspective, I will situate the analysis of interviews with liberal feminists and legal documents to explain the emergence of inter-legal boundaries in the experience of non-recognition of indigenous women as antagonistic agents of imagining and constructing reality in the context of the definition of the pluricultural neoliberal state. Based on the silencing of indigenous women in the discourse of indigenous laws, I will explore how conditioned autonomies have been constructed through socio-legal locks for the management and administration of two regimes of sovereign authority. The text concludes by demonstrating the challenges of indigenous women in Oaxaca concerning inter-legal boundaries, given the traditional character of control and conditioning of the new colonial paradigms maintained in the culture of the authority of law over the autonomy of the territorial body.