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In Dr Manuela Picq's talk, “How Water Defenders' Resistance to Extractive Megaprojects Transformed Ecuador,” Dr. Picq discusses the inscribing of the rights of nature into Ecuador’s constitution in 2008 and the water defenders behind the scenes, mostly indigenous women, who have been putting their bodies on the frontlines, pushing for consultation and consent through roadblocks and legal claims. Her talk tells their stories of resistance, and how their struggle for consent transformed the state in irreversible ways. Dr Manuela Picq is Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Political Science and contributes to the Department of Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College (USA). She is the author of Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (University of Arizona Press 2024) and Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics (University of Arizona Press 2018). She has co-authored four edited volumes , published dozens of scholarly articles and contributes political analysis to various international media outlets in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. After being detained and expelled from Ecuador in 2015 for her work at the intersection of scholarship, journalism, and activism, she was nominated a New Generation of Public Intellectuals (2018) and featured in the FemiList 100 (2021) of women working in law, policy, and peace building across the Global South. You can watch recordings of the Consortium’s past events on our YouTube channel or at https://genderandsecurity.org/events.

Los defensores del agua del Azuay, liderados por el abogado Yaku Pérez, no se rinden ante el megaproyecto de explotación del oro de la minera Dundee Precious Metals, de Canadá

As mulheres indígenas continuam a ser imaginadas como sujeitos passivos à margem da tomada de decisões políticas. Na realidade, contudo, elas são dinâmicas na política internacional, e suas formas de resistência influenciam a soberania do Estado na América Latina. Manuela Picq utiliza o caso das mulheres Kichwa no Equador para mostrar como as mulheres indígenas desafiam a política mundial de forma fundamental. Apesar da justaposição de opressões que atravessa a vida dessas mulheres (desde a violência socioeconômica até a sexual), seu ativismo político lhes permitiu alcançar direitos inigualáveis na constituição de 2008 - a primeira a garantir explicitamente os direitos das mulheres indígenas e a primeira no mundo a exigir a paridade de gênero na administração da justiça. Combinando olhares feministas com estudos indígenas, a pesquisa interdisciplinar de Manuela Picq expande os debates conceituais sobre a soberania do Estado nas relações internacionais. ---- Manuela Lavinas Picq é professora de Relações Internacionais na Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Equador, e Loewenstein Fellow em Amherst College, EUA. É também co/autora de cinco livros, e sua pesquisa com povos indígenas e gênero e sexualidades em relações internacionais a levou a Freie Universität (2015), Institute for Advanced Study (2013) e Woodrow Wilson Center (2005).

How do Indigenous forms of governance provide models for organizing beyond the state? How might scholars better work alongside of and in the best interests of the people that they study? How does Indigenous artistic production reimagine the very nature of politics? In episode 72 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews professor Manuela Lavinas Picq about the powerful ways Indigenous Ecuadorian women are forging new models for international politics; the personal, professional, and political stakes of being a scholar in the Global South; why it is so important for academics to work with and for communities, not just write about them; and how Indigenous communities across the globe are imagining worlds beyond the state. TRANSCRIPT & SHOW NOTES: https://ideasonfire.net/72-manuela-lavinas-picq/ _____________________________________ WEBSITE: https://ideasonfire.net TONS of publishing, writing, creating, and teaching resources to rock your interdisciplinary career SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST: Apple Podcasts (iOS): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/imagine-otherwise/id1075877472 Google Podcasts (Android): https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL2ltYWdpbmVvdGhlcndpc2UubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M%3D Spotify: https://soundcloud.com/cathy-hannabach/ JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER: https://ideasonfire.net/newsletter Podcast episodes, articles, and trainings right to your inbox to help you rock your interdisciplinary career CONNECT: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IdeasOnFirePhD/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ideasonfirephd Twitter: https://twitter.com/ideasonfirephd

I SEMINARIO DE REFLEXIÓN SOBRE LA INVESTIGACIÓN: ESTRATEGIAS DE PUBLICACIÓN INDEXADA EN LA ACADEMIA GLOBAL: Conferencia 5 Jueves 27 de marzo de 2014 Sala de Conferencias Biblioteca

Brazil Institute The discussion focused on Brazil's progress in developing a congressionally-backed truth commission which would examine crimes committed by the military regime that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. This was the message that was delivered by Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro and Paulo de Tarso Vanucchi, both of whom held high level positions within their respective human rights commissions. Manuela Lavinas Picq, the Loewenstein Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Amherst College, analyzed the experiences of similar commissions organized in other countries and pointed out that Brazil is late in the process. Sérgio Fausto, the Executive-Director of the Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso, raised questions about how the Truth Commission is perceived by the Brazilian society. Events speakers: Paulo Sotero, Sergio Fausto, Manuela Lavinas Picq, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi