“Displaced futures”: indigeneity, land struggle, and mothering in Honduras

Abstract

This paper draws from the insights of feminist political ecology and ethnographic fieldwork in the coastal Miskito communities of the Honduran Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve. In this paper, I highlight how Miskito matriarchal land organization is challenged by both the state and Miskito men. Through a reflection of multi-scaled narratives, I argue that Miskito women “work” to counter entrenched patriarchal assumptions and racialized state development practices that deny women's labor in agriculture and undermine their means “to mother.”