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⚫ | '''Gladys Elizabeth Tzul Tzul''' (born 1982) is a [[Maya peoples|Maya]] [[Kʼicheʼ people|K'iche']] [[Activism|activist]], [[Intellectual|public intellectual]], [[Sociology|sociologist]], and [[Visual arts|visual artist]] who was one of the first to study |
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[[File:MX TV POETA GUATEMALTECA GLADYS TZUL.jpg|alt=A woman with long brown hair wearing an embroidered top in three-quarter view smiles at the camera.|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul, at the fifth Festival of Indigenous Cultures, Peoples and Original Neighborhoods in Mexico City, 2018.]] |
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⚫ | '''Gladys Elizabeth Tzul Tzul''' (born 1982) is a [[Maya peoples|Maya]] [[Kʼicheʼ people|K'iche']] [[Activism|activist]], [[Intellectual|public intellectual]], [[Sociology|sociologist]], and [[Visual arts|visual artist]] who was one of the first to study Indigenous communal politics and gender relationships in Guatemala. |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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Tzul Tzul was born in a small K'iche' community in [[Totonicapán]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web| |
Tzul Tzul was born in a small K'iche' community in [[Totonicapán]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last1=Tzul Tzul|first1=Gladys|last2=Sebastián|first2=Sandra|date=June 15, 2016|title=Escucharnos decir: feminismos populares in América Latina|trans-title=Hear What We Say: Popular Feminism in Latin America|url=https://issuu.com/escucharnosdecir/docs/escucharnos_decir_-_e01_-_jun_16_-_|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Issuu|pages=130–136|language=en}}</ref> She is a descendant of {{ill|Atanasio Tzul|es}}, a K'iche' leader who led an Indigenous revolution in 1820.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last1=Hernández|first1=Oswaldo J.|last2=trans. by Sandra Cuffe|date=2014-02-10|title=Confronting the Narrative: Gladys Tzul on Indigenous Governance and State Authority in Guatemala|url=http://upsidedownworld.org/archives/guatemala/confronting-the-narrative-gladys-tzul-on-indigenous-governance-and-state-authority-in-guatemala/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Upside Down World|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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== Academics and |
== Academics and activism == |
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She earned |
She earned a master's degree from the [[Alberto Hurtado University]] in Chile and a PhD in sociology from [[Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla|Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla]] in Mexico.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Gladys Tzul Tzul|url=https://creativetime.org/summit/athens-2017/gladys-tzul-tzul/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=The Creative Time Summit}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|date=2019-09-04|title="En Guatemala la tierra es indígena" [Interview with Gladys Tzul Tzul]|url=https://www.clacso.org/en-guatemala-la-tierra-es-indigena/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=CLACSO|language=es}}</ref> Her scholarly work focuses on the relationships of Indigenous women within their communities and with larger political structures, such as federal governments.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tzul|first=Gladys Tzul|date=2018-10-31|title=Rebuilding Communal Life: Ixil women and the desire for life in Guatemala|journal=NACLA Report on the Americas|language=en|volume=50|issue=4|pages=404–407|doi=10.1080/10714839.2018.1550986|s2cid=187142099|issn=1071-4839}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Tzul|first=Gladys Tzul|date=July 2016|title=Communal Strategies for Controlling Microfinance in Chuimeq'ena' Guatemala|url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/115/3/625-631/3854|journal=South Atlantic Quarterly|language=en|volume=115|issue=3|pages=625–631|doi=10.1215/00382876-3608686|issn=0038-2876}}</ref> In many of her articles, Tzul Tzul describes how Indigenous women resist domination and exploitation through communal democracy in the [[Andes]] and [[Mesoamerica]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tzul|first=Gladys Tzul|date=2018-10-31|title=Rebuilding Communal Life|journal=NACLA Report on the Americas|volume=50|issue=4|pages=404–407|doi=10.1080/10714839.2018.1550986|s2cid=187142099|issn=1071-4839}}</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Tzul Tzul|first=Gladys|title=La forma comunal de la resistencia {{!}} Gladys Tzul Tzul|url=https://www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/7a052353-5edf-45fe-a7ab-72c6121665b4/la-forma-comunal-de-la-resistencia|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Revista de la Universidad de México|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Tzul Tzul|first=Gladys|date=2020-03-12|title=El deseo que moviliza la lucha de las mujeres comunales en Honduras|url=https://www.clacso.org/el-deseo-que-moviliza-la-lucha-de-las-mujeres-comunales-en-honduras/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=CLACSO|language=es}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=Tzul Tzul|first=Gladys|title=Gobierno comunal indígena y estado Guatemalteco: algunas claves críticas para comprender su tensa relación|publisher=Instituto Amaq'|year=2018|isbn=978-9929-778-27-6|edition=1st|location=Guatemala|oclc=1048462006}}</ref> Indigenous land ownership is also one of her key beliefs.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-04|title='En Guatemala la tierra es indígena' ['In Guatemala, the land is indigenous,' an Interview with Gladys Tzul Tzul]|url=https://www.clacso.org/en-guatemala-la-tierra-es-indigena/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=CLACSO|language=es}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> |
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[[File:Gladys Tzul Tzul at MX RC VOLUNTAD DE VIDA.jpg|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul giving a talk in 2018 in Mexico City.]] |
[[File:Gladys Tzul Tzul at MX RC VOLUNTAD DE VIDA.jpg|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul giving a talk in 2018 in Mexico City.]] |
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One of Tzul Tzul's case studies is the [[Ixcán]] highland village of Santa María Tzejá, an |
One of Tzul Tzul's case studies is the [[Ixcán]] highland village of Santa María Tzejá, an Indigenous community that was destroyed in 1982 as part of the [[ethnic cleansing]] of the Maya during the [[Guatemalan Civil War]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Martin|first=Maria|title=Santa Maria: The Tale of One Village|url=http://joehoy.com/clients/ATW/segment01.html|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Despues las Guerras: Central America after the Wars}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pike|first=Scott|date=2015-02-19|title=33 Years Ago Today: February 15, 1982 in Guatemala|url=https://enfoqueixcan.org/33-years-ago-today-february-15-1982/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Enfoque Ixcán|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Anderson|first=George M.|date=2005-06-06|title=Guatemala Nunca Ms!|url=https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2005/06/06/guatemala-nunca-ms|access-date=2020-08-03|website=America Magazine|language=en}}</ref> As rebuilding efforts began in the 1990s, women in the village linked alcohol to increased violence and began to organize efforts to prohibit the sale of alcohol.<ref name=":5" /> Tzul Tzul describes the successful regulation of alcohol starting in 1994 and the accompanying decrease in [[domestic violence]] as a success of the "communal process of historical [and Indigenous] self-regulation," which could represent the [[Intersectionality|intersectional]] concerns of Indigenous women in a way that federal governance could not.<ref name=":5" /> |
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A key part of her activism is the idea that individual |
A key part of her activism is the idea that individual Indigenous communities best understand their own needs.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Abbott|first=Jeff|date=Apr 27, 2020|title=Reviving Indigenous authorities in Guatemala|url=https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/reviving-indigenous-authorities-in-guatemala|access-date=2020-08-03|website=briarpatchmagazine.com|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> She is influenced by the work of [[Michel Foucault]] and [[Silvia Federici]],<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":1" /> and has argued that Indigenous communities can resist political domination through language and through their continued existence.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tzul Tzul|first=Gladys|date=March–August 2015|title=Mujeres indígenas: Historias de la reproducción de la vida en Guatemala. Una reflexión a partir de la visita de Silvia Federici|url=https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/286/28642148007.pdf|journal=Bajo el Volcán|language=es|volume=15|issue=22|pages=91–99}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Picq|first=Manuela L.|date=2017|title=Indigenous Politics of Resistance: An Introduction|url=https://newdiversities.mmg.mpg.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2017_19-02_01_Introduction.pdf|journal=New Diversities|volume=12|issue=2|pages=1}}</ref> |
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In 2012, Tzul Tzul faced persecution for her efforts to bring light to the massacre of |
In 2012, Tzul Tzul faced persecution for her efforts to bring light to the massacre of Indigenous leaders; she was an expert witness in the 2016 trials that saw the exoneration of community leaders.<ref>{{Cite web|title=GSN MONDAY MAILER NOVEMBER 04 2013|url=https://www.vanderbilt.edu/gsn/2013/11/05/gsn-monday-mailer-november-04-2013/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Vanderbilt University|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nelson|first=Diane M.|date=2019-02-01|title=Low Intensities|journal=Current Anthropology|volume=60|issue=S19|pages=S122–S133|doi=10.1086/701040|issn=0011-3204}}</ref> |
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She has written that |
She has written that Indigenous communities have responded flexibly to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] despite government neglect because of Indigenous authorities' use of native languages and support for communal markets.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tzul Tzul|first=Gladys|date=2020-04-18|title=Archipelagos and the desire for life|url=https://towardfreedom.org/story/archipelagos-and-the-desire-for-life/|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Toward Freedom|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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[[File:MX RC VOLUNTAD DE VIDA - 43718725394 Gladys Tzul Tzul.jpg|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul giving a talk in 2018 in Mexico City. |
[[File:MX RC VOLUNTAD DE VIDA - 43718725394 Gladys Tzul Tzul.jpg|thumb|Gladys Tzul Tzul giving a talk in 2018 in Mexico City.]] |
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She is also the founder of Amaq', an organization that provides legal guidance to |
She is also the founder of Amaq', an organization that provides legal guidance to Indigenous peoples.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|last=Jung|first=Karina|title=Award Recipient for 2018|url=https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/voltaire-preis/award-recipient-for-2018|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Universität Potsdam|language=en-GB}}</ref> |
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== Honors and |
== Honors and awards == |
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In 2017, she received the [[Berta Cáceres]] scholarship, named in honor of the Honduran |
In 2017, she received the [[Berta Cáceres]] scholarship, named in honor of the Honduran Indigenous activist.<ref name=":3" /> |
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Tzul Tzul received the 2018 "[[Voltaire]] Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Difference" from the [[University of Potsdam]] in Germany.<ref name=":7" /> |
Tzul Tzul received the 2018 "[[Voltaire]] Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Difference" from the [[University of Potsdam]] in Germany.<ref name=":7" /> |
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== Visual |
== Visual arts == |
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Tzul Tzul is a member of the |
Tzul Tzul is a member of the Indigenous photographers' collective “Con Voz Propia" (English: "In Their Own Voices" or "In Her Own Voice").<ref name=":2" /> The organization was established in response to federal programs to "liberate" Indigenous women; instead, Con Voz Propia empowers Indigenous women to represent themselves through photography.<ref name=":0" /> |
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== Books |
== Books authored == |
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* ''Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimea'ena (Systems of Indigenous Communal Government: Women and Lineage in Chuimea'ena).'' Guatemala, Editorial Maya' Wuj and the Sociedad Comunitaria de Estudios Estratégicos / Tz'i'kin, Centro de Investigación y Pluralismo Jurídico, 2016. |
* ''Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimea'ena (Systems of Indigenous Communal Government: Women and Lineage in Chuimea'ena).'' Guatemala, Editorial Maya' Wuj and the Sociedad Comunitaria de Estudios Estratégicos / Tz'i'kin, Centro de Investigación y Pluralismo Jurídico, 2016. |
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Revision as of 03:26, 20 April 2024
Gladys Elizabeth Tzul Tzul (born 1982) is a Maya K'iche' activist, public intellectual, sociologist, and visual artist who was one of the first to study Indigenous communal politics and gender relationships in Guatemala.
Biography
Tzul Tzul was born in a small K'iche' community in Totonicapán.[1] She is a descendant of Atanasio Tzul , a K'iche' leader who led an Indigenous revolution in 1820.[2]
Academics and activism
She earned a master's degree from the Alberto Hurtado University in Chile and a PhD in sociology from Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.[3][4] Her scholarly work focuses on the relationships of Indigenous women within their communities and with larger political structures, such as federal governments.[5][6] In many of her articles, Tzul Tzul describes how Indigenous women resist domination and exploitation through communal democracy in the Andes and Mesoamerica.[7][6][8][9][10] Indigenous land ownership is also one of her key beliefs.[11][2]
One of Tzul Tzul's case studies is the Ixcán highland village of Santa María Tzejá, an Indigenous community that was destroyed in 1982 as part of the ethnic cleansing of the Maya during the Guatemalan Civil War.[12][13][14] As rebuilding efforts began in the 1990s, women in the village linked alcohol to increased violence and began to organize efforts to prohibit the sale of alcohol.[8] Tzul Tzul describes the successful regulation of alcohol starting in 1994 and the accompanying decrease in domestic violence as a success of the "communal process of historical [and Indigenous] self-regulation," which could represent the intersectional concerns of Indigenous women in a way that federal governance could not.[8]
A key part of her activism is the idea that individual Indigenous communities best understand their own needs.[15][1] She is influenced by the work of Michel Foucault and Silvia Federici,[8][2] and has argued that Indigenous communities can resist political domination through language and through their continued existence.[16][17]
In 2012, Tzul Tzul faced persecution for her efforts to bring light to the massacre of Indigenous leaders; she was an expert witness in the 2016 trials that saw the exoneration of community leaders.[18][19]
She has written that Indigenous communities have responded flexibly to the COVID-19 pandemic despite government neglect because of Indigenous authorities' use of native languages and support for communal markets.[20]
She is also the founder of Amaq', an organization that provides legal guidance to Indigenous peoples.[3][21]
Honors and awards
In 2017, she received the Berta Cáceres scholarship, named in honor of the Honduran Indigenous activist.[4]
Tzul Tzul received the 2018 "Voltaire Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Difference" from the University of Potsdam in Germany.[21]
Visual arts
Tzul Tzul is a member of the Indigenous photographers' collective “Con Voz Propia" (English: "In Their Own Voices" or "In Her Own Voice").[3] The organization was established in response to federal programs to "liberate" Indigenous women; instead, Con Voz Propia empowers Indigenous women to represent themselves through photography.[1]
Books authored
- Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimea'ena (Systems of Indigenous Communal Government: Women and Lineage in Chuimea'ena). Guatemala, Editorial Maya' Wuj and the Sociedad Comunitaria de Estudios Estratégicos / Tz'i'kin, Centro de Investigación y Pluralismo Jurídico, 2016.
- Gobierno comunal indígena y estado guatemalteco: Algunas claves críticas para comprender su tensa relación (Indigenous Communal Government and the Guatemalan State: Some Critical Perspectives to Understand their Tense Relationship). Guatemala: Instituto Amaq', 2018.[10]
References
- ^ a b c Tzul Tzul, Gladys; Sebastián, Sandra (June 15, 2016). "Escucharnos decir: feminismos populares in América Latina" [Hear What We Say: Popular Feminism in Latin America]. Issuu. pp. 130–136. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ a b c Hernández, Oswaldo J.; trans. by Sandra Cuffe (2014-02-10). "Confronting the Narrative: Gladys Tzul on Indigenous Governance and State Authority in Guatemala". Upside Down World. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ a b c "Gladys Tzul Tzul". The Creative Time Summit. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ a b ""En Guatemala la tierra es indígena" [Interview with Gladys Tzul Tzul]". CLACSO (in Spanish). 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Tzul, Gladys Tzul (2018-10-31). "Rebuilding Communal Life: Ixil women and the desire for life in Guatemala". NACLA Report on the Americas. 50 (4): 404–407. doi:10.1080/10714839.2018.1550986. ISSN 1071-4839. S2CID 187142099.
- ^ a b Tzul, Gladys Tzul (July 2016). "Communal Strategies for Controlling Microfinance in Chuimeq'ena' Guatemala". South Atlantic Quarterly. 115 (3): 625–631. doi:10.1215/00382876-3608686. ISSN 0038-2876.
- ^ Tzul, Gladys Tzul (2018-10-31). "Rebuilding Communal Life". NACLA Report on the Americas. 50 (4): 404–407. doi:10.1080/10714839.2018.1550986. ISSN 1071-4839. S2CID 187142099.
- ^ a b c d Tzul Tzul, Gladys. "La forma comunal de la resistencia | Gladys Tzul Tzul". Revista de la Universidad de México (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Tzul Tzul, Gladys (2020-03-12). "El deseo que moviliza la lucha de las mujeres comunales en Honduras". CLACSO (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ a b Tzul Tzul, Gladys (2018). Gobierno comunal indígena y estado Guatemalteco: algunas claves críticas para comprender su tensa relación (1st ed.). Guatemala: Instituto Amaq'. ISBN 978-9929-778-27-6. OCLC 1048462006.
- ^ "'En Guatemala la tierra es indígena' ['In Guatemala, the land is indigenous,' an Interview with Gladys Tzul Tzul]". CLACSO (in Spanish). 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Martin, Maria. "Santa Maria: The Tale of One Village". Despues las Guerras: Central America after the Wars. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Pike, Scott (2015-02-19). "33 Years Ago Today: February 15, 1982 in Guatemala". Enfoque Ixcán. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Anderson, George M. (2005-06-06). "Guatemala Nunca Ms!". America Magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Abbott, Jeff (Apr 27, 2020). "Reviving Indigenous authorities in Guatemala". briarpatchmagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Tzul Tzul, Gladys (March–August 2015). "Mujeres indígenas: Historias de la reproducción de la vida en Guatemala. Una reflexión a partir de la visita de Silvia Federici" (PDF). Bajo el Volcán (in Spanish). 15 (22): 91–99.
- ^ Picq, Manuela L. (2017). "Indigenous Politics of Resistance: An Introduction" (PDF). New Diversities. 12 (2): 1.
- ^ "GSN MONDAY MAILER NOVEMBER 04 2013". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ Nelson, Diane M. (2019-02-01). "Low Intensities". Current Anthropology. 60 (S19): S122–S133. doi:10.1086/701040. ISSN 0011-3204.
- ^ Tzul Tzul, Gladys (2020-04-18). "Archipelagos and the desire for life". Toward Freedom. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
- ^ a b Jung, Karina. "Award Recipient for 2018". Universität Potsdam. Retrieved 2020-08-03.