Resources
Here are details of some of the Resources, Sources and Projects that have informed and inspired the Women of Influence project team:
Convención sobre la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer
(United Nations, 2022)
Womens, indigenous rights
Recommendation 39
Open Access
Green, S. (2009)
Customizing indigeneity: Paths to a visionary politics in Peru.
Stanford University Press
Indigenous Organizations
Non-open Access
Rousseau, S., & Morales Hudon, A. (2018)
Movimientos de mujeres indígenas en Latinoamérica.
Editoral de la Ponticia Universidad Católica del Perú (available in English)
Indigenous Organizations
Open Access
Santos Granero, F. (2018)
Utopia & Slavery. The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer.
University of Texas Press.
Historical leaders
Non-open Access
Veber, H. (2009)
Historias para nuestro futuro. Narraciones autobiográficas de líderes asháninkas y ashéninkas de la Selva Central del Perú.
Grupo Internacional De Trabajo Sobre Asuntos Indigenas.
Historical leaders
Open Access
Sarmiento Barletti, J. P. (2011).
Kametsa Asaiki: The pursuit of the good life in an Ashaninka village (Peruvian Amazonia).
University of St. Andrews. (PhD dissertation)
‘Buen vivir’ (living well – ethically and resonsibly)
Open Access
Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación. (2003).
Los Pueblos Indígenas Y El Caso De Los Asháninkas. En Informe final de la CVR
Tomo V, pp. 241–277), Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación.
Armed Conflict in Ashaninka
Open Access
Women Resisting Gendered and Intersectional Violence
Project led by Marilyn Thomson and Louise Morris (Latin America Bureau) with Cathy McIlwaine and Jelke Boesten (Kings College London) plus Patricia Muñoz Cabrera.
Gender quality; grassroots campaigns and organisations that counter violence against women and girls in Latin America
Open access podcast series, website, workshop. Plus a book (non open access)
Espinosa, O. (2017).
Gender and political leadership.
In H. Veber & P. K. Virtanen (Eds.),
Creating dialogues. Indigenous perceptions and changing forms of leadership in Amazonia.
University Press of Colorado.
Veber, H. (2017).
Variabilities of Indigenous Leadership.
In Hanee Veber & P. K. Virtanen (Eds.),
Creating dialogues. Indigenous perceptions and changing forms of leadership in Amazonia.
University Press of Colorado.
Indigenous leadership
Non-open Access
Indigenous Women & Leadership
Non-open Access
Espinosa, O. (2012)
To be Shipibo nowadays: The Shipibo-Konibo youth organizations as a strategy for dealing with cultural change in the Peruvian Amazon region.
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 17(3), 451–471.
Juventudes/Indigenous Youth
Non-open Access
Reclama - Harnessing Afro-Ecuadorian Women’s Heritage
Collaborative project between Mujeres de Asfalto Collective, University of Northumbria and Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
Funded by British Academy, GCRF scheme
A decolonial, anti-racist and feminist research project, drawing conceptually on geography and critical history, using oral history tools and participatory methodologies to strengthen the reexistencia of Afro-descendant-black women, with the aim of visibilising their knowledge, and opening up spaces for transmission of their rich cultural heritage. The purpose is to document the rich heritage of Afro-descendant-black women living in Esmeraldas Province, on the north coast of Ecuador.
Open access, website, podcast, recipe book, artwork, films.
Inclusion Manifesto
Qualitative Research Methods Symposium, UEA 2020
The Inclusion Manifesto was crowdsourced from contributions by participants in the Qualitative Research Methods Symposium, organised by the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Qualitative Research Forum September 3rd, 2020.
Open Access.
Co-creating and Decolonizing a Methodology Using Indigenist Approaches: Alliance with the Asheninka and Yine-Yami Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon
Collaboratively co-authored paper: Andrea Milagros Vasquez-Fernandez University of British Columbia Reem Hajjar Oregon State University María I. Shuñaqui Sangama Member of the Asheninka people Raúl Sebastián Lizardo Member of the Yine-Yami people Miriam Pérez Pinedo Member of the Asheninka people John L. Innes and Robert A. Kozak Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia
Open Access.
Sophie Harman, 2019.
Seeing Politics: Film, Visual Method and International Relations
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Non-open Access.
Camila Rossi, 2023.
Women Must Be Protagonists in Solving the Climate Crisis
As the most vulnerable population, particularly those at the intersection of the environment and Indigeneity, women should take part in the development of global climate solutions.