Experiences from the collaborative and feminist ethnographic process with indigenous women’s organizations

Experiencias desde el proceso etnográfico colaborativo y feminista con organizaciones de mujeres indígenas

From an ethnographic, reflexive theoretical approach, I describe four collective processes driven by indigenous women (two in Mexico, two in Bolivia), focusing in preventing genderbased violence, women’s participation in politics, and the defense of women’s collective and individual rights. Then I tell and analyze how I accompanied four organizing experiences, underlining how I applied a collaborative engaged methodology, along with a feminist community-based decolonial approach. By looking at these methodologies and approaches, I also develop collaborative focus as political engagement, considering the contributions being achieved through active participation by female social actors, as well as the hindrances and challenges we as scholars face in collective processes leading to knowledge production.