Coloniality, Necropolitical Masculinity and Femicide Violence: The Case of War on Huachicol in Mezquital Valley, Hidalgo State, Mexico
As a result of the covid-19 pandemic, there is a significant increase in the rate of femicides and disappearances of women in Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo State). The ongoing health con- tingency, the War on Huachicol and the socio-environmental problem in this region -one of the most polluted in the w...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Acta Sociológica |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/84877 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/ras/article/view/84877 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Necropolitics coloniality gender masculinity femicide violence rurality Necropolítica colonialidad género masculinidad violencia feminicida ruralidad Necropolítica colonialidade gênero masculinidade violência feminicida ruralidade |
| Sumario: | As a result of the covid-19 pandemic, there is a significant increase in the rate of femicides and disappearances of women in Mezquital Valley (Hidalgo State). The ongoing health con- tingency, the War on Huachicol and the socio-environmental problem in this region -one of the most polluted in the world- give account for the colonial context that frames this policy of death (Mbembe, 2006). Thus, in this paper we return to the approach of the Modern/Colonial Gender System (Lugones, 2008) to explain the configuration of a necropolitical masculin- ity (Valencia, 2010) based on the figure of huachicolero, to whom the sovereign right to kill subjects and have nature under his control is conferred. The result: femicide violence as a direct effect of colonial gender imaginaries in which women are differentiated, from gender and race categories. As part of nature, women are considered appropriable, exploitable and damageable due to a pedagogy of cruelty (Segato, 2014a) |
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