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Anthropologist | Historian studying women in radical politics British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @uclhistory.bsky.social
@mercrisostomo.bsky.socialI am so grateful to Marral Shamshiri for inviting me to write this piece for @historyworkshop.org.uk and its Radical Horizons series. The piece forms part of my broader research on women in radical politics in twentieth-century Latin America.
@historyworkshop.org.ukReposted by @mercrisostomo.bsky.socialHow can processes of political formation shape transformative politics? Mercedes Crisóstomo discusses the experiences of Peru's militante women from past to present.
@mercrisostomo.bsky.socialI tell the story of women who, during the 1950s and 1960s, entered grassroots politics determined to overthrow an oppressive institution inherited from the colonial past: the hacienda.
