Patricia Richards
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3661522 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Patricia Richards |
| PRENOMES | Patricia |
| SOBRENOME | Richards |
| ASSINATURA | RICHARDS P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6727-0409 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 230 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
From Embodied Contradictions to Self-Authorship
Sociological research on women evangelicals has tended to focus on how they exercise agency within a gender traditional context. But what happens when it becomes untenable to stay, such as in cases of abuse? This article draws on interviews with survivors of abuse in evangelical contexts to understand the pathways and experiences that brought survivors to leave. We theorize embodied contradictions between religious identity and bodily experiences…
Feminist Futures for Authoritarian Times
Voces y experiencias de mujeres mapuche en tiempos de revoluciones feministas
Nos hemos propuesto en este artículo, desde una apuesta descolonial y con perspectiva interseccional, analizar las luchas históricas que mujeres mapuche han llevado adelante para reivindicar derechos de su pueblo y la equidad de género. Llamamos atención sobre el protagonismo que han tenido mujeres mapuche en la coyuntura reciente: en los procesos constitucionales, en los debates sobre el proyecto neoliberal, el extractivismo y el racismo institu…
Towards an Embodied Analysis of the Academic Field
In this introduction to the journal's special issue on Gender, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge we engage with the collected articles to expand conversations on embodiment and research. The issue brings together articles that reflect on gender, race, and violence throughout academic spaces—from teaching to tenure, from field sites to job talks. They contribute to ongoing conversations that interrogate embodied experiences not only in the…
Institutional, Ideological, and Interactional Constraints
Drawing on 32 interviews with survivors, we examine sexual abuse in white evangelical contexts as a point of intervention in feminist debates over agency. In recent decades, scholars have tended to focus on how women in gender‐traditional religions exercise agency via submission and piety. We argue that the case of abuse points to the limits of agency as a lens to understand women and girls' experiences, and theorize ideological, institutional, a…
Feeling rules in the marriage equality movement
In recent years, scholars have turned their attention to the role of emotion on social networking sites. Much of this research has focused on social media as a space where emotions develop and are transformed in order for movement organizations to mobilize participants. This article uses activism around marriage equality in Georgia to explore participants’ experiences of emotion during public protest events and on social media. Utilizing intervie…
Sentient Lands
Harassed
"Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. Nevertheless, these experiences are often left out of ethnographers' "tales from the field" and remain unaddressed within qualitative literature. Harassed argues that the androcentric, racist, and colonialist epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology contribute to silence surrounding sexual harassment and oth…
Harassed
Ethnographic Fixations
An argument for context‐driven intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality has fundamentally changed feminist theorizing and the study of women and gender. However, intersectional research, theorizing, and practice also have been subject to important critiques. This article provides a brief genealogy of intersectionality and summarizes major critiques. We recognize value in these critiques as well as the ongoing power of an intersectional lens. We therefore advocate what we call “context…
Building Power from Below
Harassed
As a graduate student conducting interviews alone in rural locations, I experienced flirtatious comments (directed to me, or between men talking about me) and physical contact from participants that made me uncomfortable; some of my friends faced far worse. We occasionally talked about these incidents among ourselves and developed some strategies to feel safer—sharing a list of our expected locations for the day or agreeing to call each other by …
The Life Histories of Mapuche Women Elders as Protest
This article explores the relationship between the life history narratives of Mapuche women elders and the theme of protest, making three central points. First, these narratives can contribute to understanding Mapuche protest against ongoing colonialism. Second, highlighting these stories is itself a protest against the absence of women elders' voices in most narrations of the collective struggle, as well as in academic theorizing about indigenou…
Sexual Harassment and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge
It is not uncommon for women researchers to experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. Nevertheless, these experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from the field” and remain unaddressed within our discipline. In this article, we use women's experiences with harassment in the field to interrogate the epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology within the discipl…
The Spatiality of Boundary Work
How does the collective identification of indigenous peoples who span contemporary state borders align with and diverge from those borders? This article analyzes how the Mam, an indigenous people divided by the Guatemala-Mexico border, identify collectively. We further existing sociological literature on collective identity “boundary work” by demonstrating how it is shaped by spatial, and not just symbolic, boundaries. Mam individuals and organiz…
The Mapuche in Modern Chile
Decolonizing Globalization Studies
In this essay, I argue that scholarship on globalization needs to be decolonized in three ways. First, Northern theory on globalization and transnational processes must be brought into conversation with work produced by scholars in the Global South. Second, we need to examine how looking at global and transnational phenomena from “other” epistemological perspectives could tell a different story of global processes and open up new possibilities fo…
The Mapuche Movement, the Popular Unity, and the Contemporary Left
(2013). The Mapuche Movement, the Popular Unity, and the Contemporary Left. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 34-38
Neoliberalism's Fractured Showcase
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Still Seeking Recognition
As recent research demonstrates that recognition-based reforms have not addressed many of the substantive demands of indigenous movements, many scholars claim that the movements have moved beyond recognition to focus now on the effects of neoliberal capitalism and material claims. However, setting aside formal recognition of indigenous peoples as a focus of analytic concern may have the unintended effect of drawing attention away from two issues:…
The Contradictions of Inclusion
The center-left Concertación held the presidency in Chile from the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990 until 2010. The coalition's loss of the office provides a unique opportunity to evaluate its performance. I focus in this essay on the government of socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first woman president, who held the office from 2006 to 2010. I am interested in the contradictions in the evaluations of her presidency by feminists (inclu…
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France, Queen of England
Ralph V. Turner is the author of two major monographs, one on King John and one on Richard the Lionheart, as well as numerous studies of the Angevin empire and studies of medieval church politics and secular administration. It is therefore not surprising that one of the pleasures of this book lies in its wide-ranging description of these issues as they relate to Eleanor. In addition to the primary source materials, Turner demonstrates an extensiv…
Of Indians and Terrorists
This paper examines the production of neoliberal multiculturalism in Chile as well as ideas about race, ethnicity and nation mobilised among local elites in the Chilean South. It argues that the process of creating neoliberal multicultural citizens is not only imposed from above, but also informed by local histories, attitudes and social relationships. Official neoliberal multiculturalism is shaped by transnational and national priorities, and in…
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Sexual Harassment and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge
It is not uncommon for women researchers to experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. Nevertheless, these experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from the field” and remain unaddressed within our discipline. In this article, we use women's experiences with harassment in the field to interrogate the epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology within the discipl…
Of Indians and Terrorists
This paper examines the production of neoliberal multiculturalism in Chile as well as ideas about race, ethnicity and nation mobilised among local elites in the Chilean South. It argues that the process of creating neoliberal multicultural citizens is not only imposed from above, but also informed by local histories, attitudes and social relationships. Official neoliberal multiculturalism is shaped by transnational and national priorities, and in…
Negotiating Neoliberal Multiculturalism
A central component of neoliberal multiculturalism in contemporary Latin America is an increase in indigenous individuals who work for the state, implementing indigenous policy at the municipal, regional and national levels. We explore the consequences of the inclusion of these individuals by analyzing the experiences of Mapuche state workers in Chile. We find that Mapuche workers possess a hybrid subjectivity that leads them to engage in both re…
The Politics of Gender, Human Rights, and Being Indigenous in Chile
Although the universal human rights paradigm has been problematic for women and indigenous peoples, both groups have made advances by framing their demands within a human rights perspective. Indigenous women, however, have frequently found themselves marginalized by women's movements and indigenous movements alike, particularly when they make demands for rights as indigenous women-not just as members of one group or the other. This article takes …
An argument for context‐driven intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality has fundamentally changed feminist theorizing and the study of women and gender. However, intersectional research, theorizing, and practice also have been subject to important critiques. This article provides a brief genealogy of intersectionality and summarizes major critiques. We recognize value in these critiques as well as the ongoing power of an intersectional lens. We therefore advocate what we call “context…
Still Seeking Recognition
As recent research demonstrates that recognition-based reforms have not addressed many of the substantive demands of indigenous movements, many scholars claim that the movements have moved beyond recognition to focus now on the effects of neoliberal capitalism and material claims. However, setting aside formal recognition of indigenous peoples as a focus of analytic concern may have the unintended effect of drawing attention away from two issues:…
Bravas, Permitidas, Obsoletas
The author explores how dichotomous representations of women and Indians came into play in Chilean print media representations of Mapuche women from 1997 to 2003, at the height of conflicts between the Mapuche people, the state, and elites in southern Chile. The author finds there were three competing representations of Mapuche women, which reproduce assumptions not just about them but about the people as a whole. Together, they accentuate, and s…
Decolonizing Globalization Studies
In this essay, I argue that scholarship on globalization needs to be decolonized in three ways. First, Northern theory on globalization and transnational processes must be brought into conversation with work produced by scholars in the Global South. Second, we need to examine how looking at global and transnational phenomena from “other” epistemological perspectives could tell a different story of global processes and open up new possibilities fo…
The Spatiality of Boundary Work
How does the collective identification of indigenous peoples who span contemporary state borders align with and diverge from those borders? This article analyzes how the Mam, an indigenous people divided by the Guatemala-Mexico border, identify collectively. We further existing sociological literature on collective identity “boundary work” by demonstrating how it is shaped by spatial, and not just symbolic, boundaries. Mam individuals and organiz…
The Politics of Difference and Women's Rights
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2006
Expanding Women's Citizenship
Neoliberalism's Fractured Showcase
Reviving Social Rights in Latin America
Social rights are essential to our ability to fully participate in society. In Latin America, these rights are increasingly marginalized as neoliberal policies take hold. At the same time, the related concepts of civil society and social capital are often incorporated into strategies aimed at alleviating the problems of the Latin American poor. It is expected that by strengthening people's civic capacity, their sense of mutual responsibility and …
Towards an Embodied Analysis of the Academic Field
In this introduction to the journal's special issue on Gender, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge we engage with the collected articles to expand conversations on embodiment and research. The issue brings together articles that reflect on gender, race, and violence throughout academic spaces—from teaching to tenure, from field sites to job talks. They contribute to ongoing conversations that interrogate embodied experiences not only in the…
Institutional, Ideological, and Interactional Constraints
Drawing on 32 interviews with survivors, we examine sexual abuse in white evangelical contexts as a point of intervention in feminist debates over agency. In recent decades, scholars have tended to focus on how women in gender‐traditional religions exercise agency via submission and piety. We argue that the case of abuse points to the limits of agency as a lens to understand women and girls' experiences, and theorize ideological, institutional, a…
New Readings on Women's Movements and Women's Rights in Latin America
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Toward a Theory of the Regulated Environment
Reviving Social Rights in Latin America
Social rights are essential to our ability to fully participate in society. In Latin America, these rights are increasingly marginalized as neoliberal policies take hold. At the same time, the related concepts of civil society and social capital are often incorporated into strategies aimed at alleviating the problems of the Latin American poor. It is expected that by strengthening people's civic capacity, their sense of mutual responsibility and …
Women and the State in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua
Expanding Women's Citizenship
New Readings on Women's Movements and Women's Rights in Latin America
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Pobladoras, Indígenas, and the State
This critical analysis of the role of the state, diversity of women's movements and the social and political position of indigenous peoples of Latin America provides an illuminating discussion of the ways in which the state defines women's interest, and constructs women's citizenship
The Politics of Gender, Human Rights, and Being Indigenous in Chile
Although the universal human rights paradigm has been problematic for women and indigenous peoples, both groups have made advances by framing their demands within a human rights perspective. Indigenous women, however, have frequently found themselves marginalized by women's movements and indigenous movements alike, particularly when they make demands for rights as indigenous women-not just as members of one group or the other. This article takes …
The Politics of Difference and Women's Rights
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2006
Women and Politics in Chile
Women and Politics in Chile , Susan Franceschet, Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005, pp. x, 203. The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973–1990) was marked by a high degree of women's activism focusing on human rights, economic survival and feminism. Many women expected that their active role during the dictatorship would lead to a new way of doing politics and greater inclusion of women in the political process once democracy was restored…
Negotiating Neoliberal Multiculturalism
A central component of neoliberal multiculturalism in contemporary Latin America is an increase in indigenous individuals who work for the state, implementing indigenous policy at the municipal, regional and national levels. We explore the consequences of the inclusion of these individuals by analyzing the experiences of Mapuche state workers in Chile. We find that Mapuche workers possess a hybrid subjectivity that leads them to engage in both re…
Bravas, Permitidas, Obsoletas
The author explores how dichotomous representations of women and Indians came into play in Chilean print media representations of Mapuche women from 1997 to 2003, at the height of conflicts between the Mapuche people, the state, and elites in southern Chile. The author finds there were three competing representations of Mapuche women, which reproduce assumptions not just about them but about the people as a whole. Together, they accentuate, and s…
History, Politics, and the Mapuche People in Southern Chile
Of Indians and Terrorists
This paper examines the production of neoliberal multiculturalism in Chile as well as ideas about race, ethnicity and nation mobilised among local elites in the Chilean South. It argues that the process of creating neoliberal multicultural citizens is not only imposed from above, but also informed by local histories, attitudes and social relationships. Official neoliberal multiculturalism is shaped by transnational and national priorities, and in…
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France, Queen of England
Ralph V. Turner is the author of two major monographs, one on King John and one on Richard the Lionheart, as well as numerous studies of the Angevin empire and studies of medieval church politics and secular administration. It is therefore not surprising that one of the pleasures of this book lies in its wide-ranging description of these issues as they relate to Eleanor. In addition to the primary source materials, Turner demonstrates an extensiv…
The Contradictions of Inclusion
The center-left Concertación held the presidency in Chile from the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990 until 2010. The coalition's loss of the office provides a unique opportunity to evaluate its performance. I focus in this essay on the government of socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first woman president, who held the office from 2006 to 2010. I am interested in the contradictions in the evaluations of her presidency by feminists (inclu…
The Mapuche Movement, the Popular Unity, and the Contemporary Left
(2013). The Mapuche Movement, the Popular Unity, and the Contemporary Left. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 34-38
Neoliberalism's Fractured Showcase
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Still Seeking Recognition
As recent research demonstrates that recognition-based reforms have not addressed many of the substantive demands of indigenous movements, many scholars claim that the movements have moved beyond recognition to focus now on the effects of neoliberal capitalism and material claims. However, setting aside formal recognition of indigenous peoples as a focus of analytic concern may have the unintended effect of drawing attention away from two issues:…
Decolonizing Globalization Studies
In this essay, I argue that scholarship on globalization needs to be decolonized in three ways. First, Northern theory on globalization and transnational processes must be brought into conversation with work produced by scholars in the Global South. Second, we need to examine how looking at global and transnational phenomena from “other” epistemological perspectives could tell a different story of global processes and open up new possibilities fo…
The Mapuche in Modern Chile
Sexual Harassment and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge
It is not uncommon for women researchers to experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. Nevertheless, these experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from the field” and remain unaddressed within our discipline. In this article, we use women's experiences with harassment in the field to interrogate the epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology within the discipl…
The Spatiality of Boundary Work
How does the collective identification of indigenous peoples who span contemporary state borders align with and diverge from those borders? This article analyzes how the Mam, an indigenous people divided by the Guatemala-Mexico border, identify collectively. We further existing sociological literature on collective identity “boundary work” by demonstrating how it is shaped by spatial, and not just symbolic, boundaries. Mam individuals and organiz…
The Life Histories of Mapuche Women Elders as Protest
This article explores the relationship between the life history narratives of Mapuche women elders and the theme of protest, making three central points. First, these narratives can contribute to understanding Mapuche protest against ongoing colonialism. Second, highlighting these stories is itself a protest against the absence of women elders' voices in most narrations of the collective struggle, as well as in academic theorizing about indigenou…
Harassed
"Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. Nevertheless, these experiences are often left out of ethnographers' "tales from the field" and remain unaddressed within qualitative literature. Harassed argues that the androcentric, racist, and colonialist epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology contribute to silence surrounding sexual harassment and oth…
Sociology (27 obras) · Political science (24 obras) · Law (19 obras) · Politics (16 obras) · Gender Studies (15 obras) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (10 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics (8 obras) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (8 obras)