This chapter analyses the ways in which indigenous women’s rights to physical integrity and protection from sexual violence are – or are not – addressed within the state justice system and indigenous community justice in postwar Guatemala. Contrasting two specific cases of rape and attempted rape which occurred in the department of Quiché, it explores how justice practices in the postwar period are framed by histories of violence, the interplay between different legal spheres, and different ontologies or understandings of personhood.

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(2012) “Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women’s search for justice in Guatemala,” in Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives, ed. with John-Andrew McNeish, Routledge-Cavendish: New York.