Popular feminism and revolution

The life and activism of Mexican Mercedes Olivera is forged in the mold of the best traditions of Latin American revolutionary ideology, in the incessant exercise of a thought that questions everything.

CLACSO pays tribute to one of the great intellectuals of our region, with the book “Popular Feminism and Revolution. Between Militancy and Anthropology” built in a fruitful dialogue between the most rigorous academic reflections and the conviction that without militancy there is no possible social transformation.

Montserrat Bosch Heras, responsible for the editing, explains that the anthology “is a collection of texts that were written throughout a lifetime. Through reading them, we can learn about the situation in which the indigenous peoples of Mexico lived decades and even hundreds of years ago, how women were and are discriminated against and alienated, or what paths Mercedes Olivera believes Anthropology or feminist methodology should take so that women can achieve self-determination.”

In turn, in the Preliminary Study, Alain Basail Rodríguez recalls that “the life and work of Mercedes Olivera are defined by their revolutionary character, by a thought and an incessant action in questioning the relations of power, especially of gender, institutionalized, normalized and naturalized.”

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Mercedes OliveraA feminist anthropologist, she holds a PhD in Anthropology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has taught at various universities in Mexico, Central America, and Spain, and is currently a professor and researcher at the Center for Higher Studies of Mexico and Central America at the University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas (CESMECA-UNICACH). Along with other feminist women, she founded the Center for Research and Action of Latin American Women (CIAM) and the Chiapas Women's Rights Center (CDMCH), as well as the Postgraduate Programs in Feminist Studies and Intervention at CESMECA-UNICACH. In 2016, she received the Martin Diskin Memorial Dissertation Award at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, and in 2018, she was awarded the CLACSO 2018 prize for human rights and solidarity among peoples.