ASSOCIATION OF INDIGENOUS AND AFRO-MEXICAN WOMEN IN ACAPULCO (AMIARA A.C.): IDENTITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The exploration, analysis and reflection about the integration process towards a new environment and the challenges they face are essential for the members of the Association of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Women in Acapulco (AMIARA A.C.) as an exercise in the reconfiguration of Identity and its scope. As a result of this project (2015-2017), the general objective was: To make visible the history of AMIARA integrators as managers of their development to consolidate collective identity and gender. The qualitative methodology (oral technique) using diverse technologies for the data collection and interviews in depth and semi-structured with the members of this association (Nahuas, Mixtecas, Tlapanecas, Amuzgas and Afromexican women); Internal workshops for human and external development for their visibility; 1 focus group and a panel, with a total of 70 women. In order to elucidate the complexity of these processes, the categories were identified as: Ethnic identity, identity strategies (Giménez, 1998): migration, network of links, knowledge; Gender (Lagarde, 1996; Larrain, 2004); Sustainability (Satterhwaite 1998; Toledo, 2015; Velázquez 2003).

Keywords

• identity
• gender
• sustainable development
• sustainability
• racism