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Colaborador
Bidaseca, Karina
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2001-2021
Idioma
spa
Extent
250 p.
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Identificador
Cobertura
MEX
2001-2021
Abstract
Long and painful is the "list" of grievances against women that has been registered for decades in Mexican territory. Multiple violence that are part and articulating axis of a complex framework of colonial, capitalist and patriarchal domination where female and feminized bodies have been receptacles and canvas. The wave of systematic femicides that began in Ciudad Juárez in the 1990s acted as an expanded cartography in space and time, a femicide machine extended to the entire national territory, full of wounds and scars that do not heal. For decades, femicides have been steadily increasing in numbers and cruelty, although the information provided by official State sources acts as a veil that hides rather than clarifies. Hand in hand, complicity, responsibility, impunity, indifference, (in) justice in most cases.
It was the indefatigable struggle of organizations of mothers and relatives of murdered and disappeared women, which managed to place the pain of Juárez in the international, media, social, institutional and legislative arena, achieving important legal milestones, and the state response of creating a complex institutional, inter-institutional and legislative apparatus on gender violence and femicides in Mexico. However, this has not meant in any case the clarification, cessation, reparation and non-repetition of the violence that kills.
From here, I start from the assumption that the potential for struggles and resistance is found in other political practices, which transcend the state-centric and capital management, from what authors such as Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar and Rita Segato have called feminine politics, or in a feminine key, those that emphasize their axis of attention and starting point in the collective commitment to the reproduction, sustainability and defense of life and the common (Gutiérrez, 2017). Through these notions, it is proposed to re-tie the memory threads of our history interrupted (Segato, 2019) by the colonial invasion: the imposition of a modern/colonial gender system (Lugones, 2008) and a colonial/modern patriarchy that divided life into binary hierarchies,
designating the intimate, private, reproductive, domestic, the feminine as a residue stripped of politics (Segato, 2015).
The motivation behind the research process stems from an emotion: deep admiration for the struggles of mothers and women against violence and femicides in Mexico. Respect, inspiration, and recognition are linked to political convictions that at the time of research are translated into theoretical and methodological decisions. In this sense, the thesis proposes a confluence of disciplines, approaches and methods that complement each other from a situated feminist doing and thinking (Haraway, 1995), taking elements and tools that enrich understanding: from historical sociology and Latin American studies as a backdrop in the background, I positioned the research in the epistemological approach of the decolonial turn and decolonial feminism, spinning with an affective autoethnographic writing and the genealogy of the experience (Espinosa, 2019). To this, I integrate the textile dimension, as part of my own experiential process. Thus, my search starts from the intentionality and commitment to contribute an essay on the exercise of a feminist corporeal-emotional narrative, located in the South.
From this prism, the main objective of the research is to analyze from a socio-historical perspective how the organizations "Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa" (2001-2021, Ciudad Juárez) and "Nos Queremos Vivas Neza" (2017-2021, Nezahualcóyotl), contribute from a feminine policy to the fight against femicides in Mexico. To do this, I carry out a survey of the socio-historical conditions of violence against women and femicides through a long-term view -starting from the colonial wound of 1492-, while characterizing and analyzing institutions of the Mexican state that deal with gender violence and femicides. Then, I place the organizations territorially and historically through a biographical reconstruction and genealogical link, linked to an affective autoethnographic narrative. Finally, I give way to a last and central specific objective by way of closure and open stitching: the identification and analysis of the contributions of a feminine policy of organizations regarding the fight against femicides.
The research is framed in a qualitative, feminist, decolonial and autoethnographic approach. The work with primary sources was carried out through six in-depth interviews based on script (Canales, 2006) carried out in 2019 and 2021 with three members of each organization, together with interviews from the time in question (2001 to 2021) recorded in the written media and audiovisual. The investigative process was marked by the pandemic and the resulting methodological and emotional complexities. Here autoethnography and the affective dimension of research, as tools with multiple potentialities, allowed me to restore the order of the unrepresented.
Accordingly, the information analysis is discursive and autoethnographic, by means of coding according to the objectives and the deployment of Creative Analytical Processes (Richardson and Adams, 2019). The results show the confirmation of the initial assumptions that guided the research, hand in hand with the appearance of dimensions and emerging questions in the process that enable potential future lines to be explored: justice/injustice, impunity/punitiveness. The emotional and corporal affectations in the academic processes that deal with violence, how to continue thinking about the struggles from political-other practices, in feminine; the textile and its potential as a political, artistic and epistemic practice; the place of bodies, memories, emotions, affections when investigating and generating knowledge. The roads are still open.
It was the indefatigable struggle of organizations of mothers and relatives of murdered and disappeared women, which managed to place the pain of Juárez in the international, media, social, institutional and legislative arena, achieving important legal milestones, and the state response of creating a complex institutional, inter-institutional and legislative apparatus on gender violence and femicides in Mexico. However, this has not meant in any case the clarification, cessation, reparation and non-repetition of the violence that kills.
From here, I start from the assumption that the potential for struggles and resistance is found in other political practices, which transcend the state-centric and capital management, from what authors such as Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar and Rita Segato have called feminine politics, or in a feminine key, those that emphasize their axis of attention and starting point in the collective commitment to the reproduction, sustainability and defense of life and the common (Gutiérrez, 2017). Through these notions, it is proposed to re-tie the memory threads of our history interrupted (Segato, 2019) by the colonial invasion: the imposition of a modern/colonial gender system (Lugones, 2008) and a colonial/modern patriarchy that divided life into binary hierarchies,
designating the intimate, private, reproductive, domestic, the feminine as a residue stripped of politics (Segato, 2015).
The motivation behind the research process stems from an emotion: deep admiration for the struggles of mothers and women against violence and femicides in Mexico. Respect, inspiration, and recognition are linked to political convictions that at the time of research are translated into theoretical and methodological decisions. In this sense, the thesis proposes a confluence of disciplines, approaches and methods that complement each other from a situated feminist doing and thinking (Haraway, 1995), taking elements and tools that enrich understanding: from historical sociology and Latin American studies as a backdrop in the background, I positioned the research in the epistemological approach of the decolonial turn and decolonial feminism, spinning with an affective autoethnographic writing and the genealogy of the experience (Espinosa, 2019). To this, I integrate the textile dimension, as part of my own experiential process. Thus, my search starts from the intentionality and commitment to contribute an essay on the exercise of a feminist corporeal-emotional narrative, located in the South.
From this prism, the main objective of the research is to analyze from a socio-historical perspective how the organizations "Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa" (2001-2021, Ciudad Juárez) and "Nos Queremos Vivas Neza" (2017-2021, Nezahualcóyotl), contribute from a feminine policy to the fight against femicides in Mexico. To do this, I carry out a survey of the socio-historical conditions of violence against women and femicides through a long-term view -starting from the colonial wound of 1492-, while characterizing and analyzing institutions of the Mexican state that deal with gender violence and femicides. Then, I place the organizations territorially and historically through a biographical reconstruction and genealogical link, linked to an affective autoethnographic narrative. Finally, I give way to a last and central specific objective by way of closure and open stitching: the identification and analysis of the contributions of a feminine policy of organizations regarding the fight against femicides.
The research is framed in a qualitative, feminist, decolonial and autoethnographic approach. The work with primary sources was carried out through six in-depth interviews based on script (Canales, 2006) carried out in 2019 and 2021 with three members of each organization, together with interviews from the time in question (2001 to 2021) recorded in the written media and audiovisual. The investigative process was marked by the pandemic and the resulting methodological and emotional complexities. Here autoethnography and the affective dimension of research, as tools with multiple potentialities, allowed me to restore the order of the unrepresented.
Accordingly, the information analysis is discursive and autoethnographic, by means of coding according to the objectives and the deployment of Creative Analytical Processes (Richardson and Adams, 2019). The results show the confirmation of the initial assumptions that guided the research, hand in hand with the appearance of dimensions and emerging questions in the process that enable potential future lines to be explored: justice/injustice, impunity/punitiveness. The emotional and corporal affectations in the academic processes that deal with violence, how to continue thinking about the struggles from political-other practices, in feminine; the textile and its potential as a political, artistic and epistemic practice; the place of bodies, memories, emotions, affections when investigating and generating knowledge. The roads are still open.
Título obtenido
Magíster de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Estudios Sociales Latinoamericanos
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales