TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
LIST OF FIGURES 10
GEOGRAPHIES OF THANKS 12
THREE VIGNETTES: ENCOUNTERING WOMEN IN ELECTORAL POLITICS 18
1. INTRODUCING POLITICAL CHANGE IN ECUADOR 20
SEARCHING FOR A FEMINIST ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY 23
PUZZLING OVER POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN ECUADOR 28
TRAVELING THROUGH ECUADORIAN LOCAL POLITICS 36
2. RETHINKING ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY 40
THEORISING SPACES OF DEMOCRACY 44
Understanding (Spaces of) Politics as Antagonistic 44
From the Performativity of Gender to Performative Spaces of Politics 50
The Emotional Spaces of Passionate Politics 54
(Spaces of) Politics at the ‘Crossroad’ of Gender, Ethnicity, Class and Locality 57
Rethinking Electoral Geography through Feminist Theories 62
STUDYING POLITICAL PRACTICES IN LOCAL SPACES OF POLITICS 64
3. THE PERFORMATIVITY OF POST-COLONIAL POLITICS 74
TAKING BUTLER AND MOUFFE ELSEWHERE 74
THINKING SPACE THROUGH PERFORMATIVITY AND ANTAGONISM 75
HEGEMONY, POWER AND SPACES OF POLITICS 78
CONTESTING (POST-)COLONIAL POLITICAL HEGEMONIES 83
PERFORMING ANTAGONISM IN CHIMBORAZO’S LOCAL POLITICS 85
INTERCULTURALIDAD AS AGONISTIC POLITICS 90
TOWARDS A POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CHANGE 94
4. A VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF POLITICAL PERFORMANCES 96
OPENING CREDITS 96
GENRE: VISUALIZING THE PERFORMATIVE TURN 97
STAGE DIRECTION: STRUGGLING WITH THE CAMERA IN THE FIELD 100
ON THE SET: IDENTITY PERFORMANCES ON THE POLITICAL STAGE 101
CLOSING CREDITS 105
5. PERFORMATIVE EMOTIONS IN ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS 110
QUE VIVA PACHAKUTIK: EMOTIONS IN LOCAL CAMPAIGNS 110
THE PERFORMATIVITY OF EMOTIONS IN POLITICAL SPEECH 112
RESEARCHING EMOTIONS 115
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF POPULISM 117
EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF LOCAL CAMPAIGNING 121
TOWARDS AN EMOTIONAL ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY 126
6. THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF EMOTIONS IN CAMPAIGNS 128
BRIDGING EMOTIONAL AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES 129
RESEARCHING EMOTIONS FROM AN INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE 130
STRUCTURAL INTERSECTIONALITIES AS CAUSE AND TARGET OF COLLECTIVE FEELINGS 131
DISCOURSES AROUND THE WHITENESS AND MASCULINITY OF ECUADOR’S POLITICAL SPACES 134
EMOTIONAL PERFORMANCES AS PART OF POLITICAL IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS 135
THINKING EMOTIONS FROM AN INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE 137
7. RETHINKING GENDER QUOTAS INTERSECTIONALLY 142
ACCESSING ECUADORIAN POLITICS 142
INTERSECTIONALITY IN ELECTORAL POLITICS 143
RESEARCHING INTERSECTIONALITY IN ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY 146
GENDER QUOTAS AS A MECHANISM FOR ENRICHING DEMOCRATIC INCLUSION? 148
INTERSECTIONAL POLITICAL AGENDAS? 152
A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON GENDER QUOTAS 165
8. TACKLING FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUETHROUGH PARTICIPATORY AND INTERSECTIONAL APPROACHES 168
FACING FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE 168
TOWARDS A FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL RESEARCH AGENDA 169
PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES BETWEEN TYRANNY AND TRANSFORMATION 170
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT INTERSECTIONALITY 173
DEVELOPING TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST RESEARCH PRACTICES 177
9. TOWARDS FEMINIST ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHIES 182
(HOW) DO WOMEN DO POLITICS? 182
PERFORMING POLITICS 183
MAKING SPACE FOR FEMINIST ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHIES 186
REFERENCES 190