Weeks, J;
(2025)
Staging the crime scene: feminicide and performativity in Ciudad Juárez.
Radical Americas
, 10
(1)
, Article 11. 10.14324/111.444.ra.2025.v10.1.011.
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Abstract
This commentary focuses on what Monárrez Fragoso calls ‘systemic sexual feminicide’ in Ciudad Juárez and examines the patriarchal-colonial conditions that make the murder of women possible and widespread. Specifically, it draws on the work of Rita Laura Segato to show how the style of the killings – the rape, torture and murder of victims who are then dumped in semi-public spaces – relates to the production of impunity, before turning to individuals and groups that challenge this relation.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Staging the crime scene: feminicide and performativity in Ciudad Juárez |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ra.2025.v10.1.011 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2025.v10.1.011 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 2025, Josh Weeks. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2025.v10.1.011. |
| Keywords: | feminicide, femicide, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, immunity, the Mexico–US border, North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, neoliberalism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > SHS Faculty Office UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > SHS Faculty Office > UCL Institute for Advanced Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10219778 |
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