Feminicidio, narcoviolence, and gentrification in Ciudad Juárez: the feminist fight

• Autores: Melissa W Wright
• Localización: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, ISSN-e 1472-3433, Vol. 31, Nº. 5, 2013, págs. 830-845
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The fight against impunity continues along Mexico�s border, especially in the industrial hub of Ciudad Juárez. In the 1990s feminists brought this fight to international attention as they launched a transnational justice movement against feminicidio, the killing of women with impunity. In this paper I create a feminist and Marxist frame to show that there is much to be learned from the fight against feminicidio for the ongoing struggles in a border city that is now also notorious for juvenicidio, the killing of youth with impunity, which is occurring in relation to the Mexican government�s declaration of war against organized crime. By situating these justice struggles within a context of North American securitization and neoliberal gentrification along the Mexico�US border, I argue that the feminist fight against impunity exposes the synergy of symbolic and material processes within the drug war. And I argue that this synergy seeks to generate value through the extermination of whole populations, especially of working poor women and their families in this border city today.