This book examines the roots of systemic aggression against women in contemporary Mexico, and the connection between social practices and the institutional permissiveness of the Mexican State with regard to gendered violence.
Since the democratic transition at the end of the 1990s, Mexico has registered an increase in the intensity and types of violence that have made life in some regions almost unsustainable. The chapters in this volume consider that capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy are interrelated processes that employ the technologies of gender and race as a continuation of the symbolic hegemony that treats feminized and racialized bodies as disposable. Against this background, it becomes necessary to understand from different dimensions the systemic violence against women as well as the processes of articulation between social practices and the permissiveness of the State in the face of aggression. Gender-Based Violence in Mexico mobilizes a dialogue between writings, fields of knowledge, causes and situations as essential tools for the struggle against gender violence. As a situated work that underlines the systematic roots of the violence that keeps women in subaltern positions, the text seeks an insurrection, an uprising of the bodies that invite naming the abject, peripheral and unseen populations of the project of globalized life, woven by the obsession of success and prestige. It presents a counter-conclusion in the manner of a beginning in the desire to elaborate counter-political and counter-pedagogical strategies of non-coercive experiences, where questions and debates are not a sign of belligerence but of vitality and care for the body-territories.
Gender-Based Violence in Mexico will appeal to scholars of sociology, criminology, gender and Latin American studies with interests in gendered violence and injustice.
Introduction 1. Gender and Necropolitics in Mexico 2. Drug Trafficking in the Tarahumara Sierra: An Approach from Colonial / Gender / Sexual Violence 3. Systemic Sexual Violence against Women in the Context of Armed Violence and Militarization: The Mexican Case 4. Health is walked... In Search of Territorial Health in Contexts of Slow Violence: Insurgencies of Organized Women in the Border Region of Chiapas 5. Gender Violence: Racism, Classicism, and Femigenocide 6. Structural Transformations or the Politics of Simulation? The Gender Perspective in Higher Education 7. The Gender Effects of the Militarization of Migratory Controls in Mexico: Violence against Migrant Women Perpetrated by the State 8. Normative Frameworks of Gender-Based Political Violence in Mexico 9. State Control of Violence against Women: A Proposal with an Indigenous Cosmovision 10. Logics of the State and Sexualization of the Enemy: Power, Sovereignty and Indecency 11. Political Transitions, Commissions of Truth, and Gender in Mexico 12. Social Hostility and Peace Claims: Rethinking Gendered Migration from some Philosophical Categories 13. Informative Sources on Victims and Perpetrators of Femicide in the Mexican Press 14. Digital Civics and Female Agency: The Case of the Group of the Mothers of Por Amor a Ellxs 15. Deported Mothers and their Voices in Humanizing Deportation Digital Archive: Domestic Violence and Resistances 16. The Social Function of Representing Violence against Women in Contemporary Mexican Documentary Film Postscript: It does not End here
Ana Luisa Sánchez Hernández is a cataloguer of the Archives of Repression project at Article 19. In 2022, she completed a postdoctoral stay at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Mexico. She teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of the Americas (UDLAP), Mexico. Her research topics have revolved around subjectivities, resistance and state violence. Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez is currently a member of the National System of Researchers and a researcher for the Science and Technology Council of the State of Puebla (CONCYTEP). He is also member of Researchers for Mexico. His interdisciplinary research draws upon philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis to address issues on the production of corporealities and subjectivities, public spaces, violence and human rights. Francisco Díaz Estrada is Dean of Research of the School of Humanities and Education at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Mexico. He is also a member of the National System of Researchers and has lectured at universities such as San Carlos University in the Philippines, the Technological Institute of Costa Rica and the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. His research focuses on Judeo-Christian philosophical thought and the social phenomena of exclusion and social marginalization.
