Manuela Lavinas Picq
Biographic Data
| ID | 455207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuela Lavinas Picq |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuela Lavinas |
| FAMILY NAME | Picq |
| SIGNATURE | PICQ M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8714-2735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ativismo Acadêmico
Eu deveria me sentir bem ao receber um prêmio por ativismo acadêmico? Por mais bem-intencionado que seja o reconhecimento do nosso ativismo, ele dilui o sentido do que é ativismo ao destacar uma pessoa só, especialmente acadêmica. O perigo de considerar o ativismo acadêmico como heroico é duplo. Primeiro, ele torna os ativistas excepcionais, insinuando que a sociedade pode confiar em indivíduos excepcionais em vez de valorizar o nosso corpo colet…
Savages and Citizens
This book takes the provocative view that Indigenous people have been fundamental to how contemporary state sovereignty was imagined, theorized, and practiced. By tracing indigeneity from European philosophers conceptualizing sovereignty during the Enlightenment to Indigenous President Evo Morales in Bolivia, this volume offers new analytical tools to explore indigeneity in contemporary world politics.
Can There Be a Public IR
International LGBTQ+ politics today
La colonización de sexualidades indígenas
La colonizacin sexual reprime sexualidades indgenas, regulando las experiencias sexuales y de gnero, forzando pueblos indgenas a existir dentro de cdigos occidentales heteronormativos. Este ensayo analiza la supresin de las sexualidades indgenas como parte de un proceso ms amplio de despojo colonial. Se examina la diversidad sexual en lenguas indgenas, la narrativa colonial de sodoma que criminaliza cuerpos para justificar el despojo bajo la doct…
Decolonizing Indigenous Sexualities
Indigenous societies were never straight. Hundreds of languages across the Americas had words referring to same-sex practices and non-binary, fluid understandings of gender long before the emergence of international LGBT rights. The muxes in Juchitán are neither men nor women but a Zapotec gender hybridity. Across the Pacific in Hawaii, the māhū embrace both the feminine and masculine. Global sexual rights frameworks did not introduce referents t…
With the Saraguros
What appears to be a book about Saraguro woven-bead necklaces turns out to be a meditation on the meaning of life. This ethnography explores what it means to live a good life for Saraguros in transnational worlds. Over eight years, anthropologist David Syring visited a Saraguro family in the Ecuadorian highlands learning la vida matizada through the art of beading.With the Saraguros starts with the idea of la vida matizada, or the blended life, i…
Vernacular Sovereignties
Stateness as Landgrab
Stateness as Landgrab: A Political History of Maya Dispossession in Guatemala Juan Castro (bio) and Manuela Lavinas Picq (bio) The history of state formation in the Americas is largely a history of indigenous dispossession. But not all dispossessions function the same. In Guatemala the forms of stealing of indigenous territory varied over time. Spanish colonizers made Maya communities buy their own lands. After independence, the modern liberal st…
Ecuador’s Expanding Extractive Frontier
After nearly a decade in power, governments on the political Left in Latin America have failed to revert the region’s longstanding economic dependence on extractivism. Today, raw materials continue
Rethinking IR from the Amazon
This article proposes Amazonia as a site to think world politics. The Amazon is invisible in the study International Relations (IR), yet its experiences are deeply global. I present the international dynamics at play in Amazonia at different historical moments to posit that this periphery has contributed to forging the political-economy of what is refer to as the core. The Amazon's absence from the study of IR speaks about the larger inequality i…
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America - by Madrid, Raúl L
Porter le genre dans la culture
Si la reconnaissance légale de la justice indigène reste une composante majeure de la démocratisation en Amérique latine, il se trouve que la loi coutumière n’est pas forcément favorable aux femmes. En Équateur, en 2008, les Amérindiennes ont saisi l’opportunité offerte par la tenue d’une Assemblée constitutionnelle, pour revendiquer l’intégration de l’équité de genre dans la loi coutumière. Ainsi, le soutien apporté par ces femmes à la justice i…
Critics at the edge? Decolonizing methodologies in International Relations
This article reviews three recent books that challenge conventional ways of doing International Relations. The rich arguments deployed in these books provide different yet complementary perspectives that can help us to rethink International Relations. They share a concern over what they regard as International Relations’ entrenched coloniality and disciplinary straitjacket. They challenge what they identify as the hegemonic practices of conventio…
Between the Dock and a Hard Place
This article examines the challenges and opportunities of indigenous justice for women in Ecuador. The legal recognition of indigenous justice is a major component of democratization in the region. Yet it also raises the risk of institutionalizing detrimental gender biases within indigenous forms of law. Taking the Remache case as a point of departure, this article identifies some of the fault lines in legal pluralism and women's conflicted relat…
Stateness as Landgrab
Stateness as Landgrab: A Political History of Maya Dispossession in Guatemala Juan Castro (bio) and Manuela Lavinas Picq (bio) The history of state formation in the Americas is largely a history of indigenous dispossession. But not all dispossessions function the same. In Guatemala the forms of stealing of indigenous territory varied over time. Spanish colonizers made Maya communities buy their own lands. After independence, the modern liberal st…
Critics at the edge? Decolonizing methodologies in International Relations
This article reviews three recent books that challenge conventional ways of doing International Relations. The rich arguments deployed in these books provide different yet complementary perspectives that can help us to rethink International Relations. They share a concern over what they regard as International Relations’ entrenched coloniality and disciplinary straitjacket. They challenge what they identify as the hegemonic practices of conventio…
Vernacular Sovereignties
Between the Dock and a Hard Place
This article examines the challenges and opportunities of indigenous justice for women in Ecuador. The legal recognition of indigenous justice is a major component of democratization in the region. Yet it also raises the risk of institutionalizing detrimental gender biases within indigenous forms of law. Taking the Remache case as a point of departure, this article identifies some of the fault lines in legal pluralism and women's conflicted relat…
Rethinking IR from the Amazon
This article proposes Amazonia as a site to think world politics. The Amazon is invisible in the study International Relations (IR), yet its experiences are deeply global. I present the international dynamics at play in Amazonia at different historical moments to posit that this periphery has contributed to forging the political-economy of what is refer to as the core. The Amazon's absence from the study of IR speaks about the larger inequality i…
International LGBTQ+ politics today
Between the Dock and a Hard Place
This article examines the challenges and opportunities of indigenous justice for women in Ecuador. The legal recognition of indigenous justice is a major component of democratization in the region. Yet it also raises the risk of institutionalizing detrimental gender biases within indigenous forms of law. Taking the Remache case as a point of departure, this article identifies some of the fault lines in legal pluralism and women's conflicted relat…
Porter le genre dans la culture
Si la reconnaissance légale de la justice indigène reste une composante majeure de la démocratisation en Amérique latine, il se trouve que la loi coutumière n’est pas forcément favorable aux femmes. En Équateur, en 2008, les Amérindiennes ont saisi l’opportunité offerte par la tenue d’une Assemblée constitutionnelle, pour revendiquer l’intégration de l’équité de genre dans la loi coutumière. Ainsi, le soutien apporté par ces femmes à la justice i…
Critics at the edge? Decolonizing methodologies in International Relations
This article reviews three recent books that challenge conventional ways of doing International Relations. The rich arguments deployed in these books provide different yet complementary perspectives that can help us to rethink International Relations. They share a concern over what they regard as International Relations’ entrenched coloniality and disciplinary straitjacket. They challenge what they identify as the hegemonic practices of conventio…
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America - by Madrid, Raúl L
Ecuador’s Expanding Extractive Frontier
After nearly a decade in power, governments on the political Left in Latin America have failed to revert the region’s longstanding economic dependence on extractivism. Today, raw materials continue
Rethinking IR from the Amazon
This article proposes Amazonia as a site to think world politics. The Amazon is invisible in the study International Relations (IR), yet its experiences are deeply global. I present the international dynamics at play in Amazonia at different historical moments to posit that this periphery has contributed to forging the political-economy of what is refer to as the core. The Amazon's absence from the study of IR speaks about the larger inequality i…
Stateness as Landgrab
Stateness as Landgrab: A Political History of Maya Dispossession in Guatemala Juan Castro (bio) and Manuela Lavinas Picq (bio) The history of state formation in the Americas is largely a history of indigenous dispossession. But not all dispossessions function the same. In Guatemala the forms of stealing of indigenous territory varied over time. Spanish colonizers made Maya communities buy their own lands. After independence, the modern liberal st…
Vernacular Sovereignties
Decolonizing Indigenous Sexualities
Indigenous societies were never straight. Hundreds of languages across the Americas had words referring to same-sex practices and non-binary, fluid understandings of gender long before the emergence of international LGBT rights. The muxes in Juchitán are neither men nor women but a Zapotec gender hybridity. Across the Pacific in Hawaii, the māhū embrace both the feminine and masculine. Global sexual rights frameworks did not introduce referents t…
With the Saraguros
What appears to be a book about Saraguro woven-bead necklaces turns out to be a meditation on the meaning of life. This ethnography explores what it means to live a good life for Saraguros in transnational worlds. Over eight years, anthropologist David Syring visited a Saraguro family in the Ecuadorian highlands learning la vida matizada through the art of beading.With the Saraguros starts with the idea of la vida matizada, or the blended life, i…
La colonización de sexualidades indígenas
La colonizacin sexual reprime sexualidades indgenas, regulando las experiencias sexuales y de gnero, forzando pueblos indgenas a existir dentro de cdigos occidentales heteronormativos. Este ensayo analiza la supresin de las sexualidades indgenas como parte de un proceso ms amplio de despojo colonial. Se examina la diversidad sexual en lenguas indgenas, la narrativa colonial de sodoma que criminaliza cuerpos para justificar el despojo bajo la doct…
Savages and Citizens
This book takes the provocative view that Indigenous people have been fundamental to how contemporary state sovereignty was imagined, theorized, and practiced. By tracing indigeneity from European philosophers conceptualizing sovereignty during the Enlightenment to Indigenous President Evo Morales in Bolivia, this volume offers new analytical tools to explore indigeneity in contemporary world politics.
Can There Be a Public IR
International LGBTQ+ politics today
Ativismo Acadêmico
Eu deveria me sentir bem ao receber um prêmio por ativismo acadêmico? Por mais bem-intencionado que seja o reconhecimento do nosso ativismo, ele dilui o sentido do que é ativismo ao destacar uma pessoa só, especialmente acadêmica. O perigo de considerar o ativismo acadêmico como heroico é duplo. Primeiro, ele torna os ativistas excepcionais, insinuando que a sociedade pode confiar em indivíduos excepcionais em vez de valorizar o nosso corpo colet…
Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Humanities (3 works)