The University of Arizona Press
March 20, 2024
Manuela L. Picq is the 2024 Outstanding Activist Scholar Awardee from the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association. She joins an extraordinary list of past recipients that includes Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Walden Bello, and David Graeber.
A celebratory reception will take place on Thursday, April 4, 12:30 p.m., Imperial A, Hilton Union Square, at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in San Francisco. After the reception, there will be a panel discussing Picq’s scholarship; the panel features Hasmet Uluorta, Markus Thiel, Robin Broad and Arlene Tickner. Finally, Picq will give a talk titled “When Our Bodies Stand With Our Ideas.”
About Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics:
Indigenous women are rarely accounted for in world politics. Imagined as passive subjects at the margins of political decision-making, they often epitomize the antithesis of international relations. Yet from their positions of marginality they are shaping sovereignty.
In Vernacular Sovereignties, Manuela Lavinas Picq shows that Indigenous women have long been dynamic political actors who have partaken in international politics and have shaped state practices carrying different forms of resistance. Her research on Ecuador shows that although Kichwa women face overlapping oppressions from socioeconomic exclusions to sexual violence, they are achieving rights unparalleled in the world.
