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A queer ecological reading of ecocultural identity in contemporary Mexico
- Author(s):
- Gabriela Méndez Cota (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Environmental Humanities, Feminist Humanities, Gender Studies
- Subject(s):
- Rural women--Social life and customs, Ethnobotany, Modernity and society, Mexico, Social change, Queer theory
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- quelites, weeds, ecocultural identity, ecocultural identity
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/rmxc-5y98
- Abstract:
- This chapter analyzes activist narratives that foreground agroecological systems such as milpa farming. Here, corn has been most visibly used as a unifying metaphor for Mexican identity, while quelites (‘tender edible weeds’), which grow spontaneously at the feet of corn plants, have historically commanded much less attention. Recently, however, quelites have emerged, alongside rural women, as ecocultural agents calling for more just and sustainable futures for the Mexican nation.
- Notes:
- This chapter analyzes activist narratives that foreground agroecological systems such as milpa farming. Here, corn has been most visibly used as a unifying metaphor for Mexican identity, while quelites (‘tender edible weeds’), which grow spontaneously at the feet of corn plants, have historically commanded much less attention. Recently, however, quelites have emerged, alongside rural women, as ecocultural agents calling for more just and sustainable futures for the Mexican nation.
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- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 year ago
- License:
- Attribution
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