Paulina García-Del Moral
Biographic Data
| ID | 170275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paulina García-Del Moral |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paulina García |
| FAMILY NAME | Del Moral |
| SIGNATURE | DEL MORAL P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7504-0248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
State Complicity: Settler Colonialism, Multisided Violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
This article theorizes and analyzes the Canadian state’s complicity in the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) in terms of the acts of omission (inaction) and commission (action) of the police and courts. Building on the intersectional perspective of Indigenous and antiracist feminist scholarship on MMIWG, I argue that these acts of omission and commission are rooted in a context of “multisided violence” that is colo…
Indigenous women, multiple violences, and legal activism: Beyond the dichotomy of human rights as “law” and as “ideas for social movements”
This review interrogates the divide between human rights “as ideas for social movements” and human rights “as law” that permeates the literature on human rights law and gender violence by putting it into conversation with the scholarship on Indigenous women's legal activism against the multiple forms of violence that they face. This divide obscures the ways in which Indigenous women across the Americas have appropriated and re‐signified the disco…
Mujeres Y Niñas Indígenas Desaparecidas Y Asesinadas: Femicidio, Feminicidio, y Genocidio en el Contexto Canadiense
A pesar de enfatizar las semejanzas entre los feminicidios de Ciudad Juárez y las desapariciones y asesinatos de mujeres y niñas indígenas en Canadá (MMIWG por sus siglas en inglés), las activistas y académicas indígenas no utilizan el concepto de feminicidio para enmarcar este tipo de violencia. Las académicas usan el término de genocidio y las activistas transnacionales la enmarcan como discriminación interseccional y una violación a los derech…
Practicing Accountability, Challenging Gendered State Resistance: Feminist Legislators and Feminicidio in Mexico
In the late 1990s, Mexican feminists mobilized transnationally to demand state accountability for the feminicidios (feminicides) of women in Ciudad Juarez. Feminicidio refers to the misogynous killing of women and the state's complicity in this violence by tolerating it with impunity. Drawing on debates of the Mexican Federal Congress (1997-2012) and interviews with feminist state and non-state actors, I examine feminist legislators' response to …
The “Formally Feminist State”: A Potential New Player in the Inter-American Human Rights System
A decade ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark judgment in the case of González and Others (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico , which addressed the abduction and subsequent sexual murder of three young women in the industrial border city of Ciudad Juárez—a place known for systematic gender violence and impunity. For the victims’ next of kin and the feminist and human rights activists involved in the litigation, the murders const…
The Making and Unmaking of Feminicidio/Femicidio Laws in Mexico and Nicaragua
This article examines the contested process of law-making related to the killing of women which resulted in the criminalization of feminicide (feminicidio) and femicide (femicidio) in Mexico and Nicaragua, two countries in which feminists engaged in legal activism to increase state accountability for gendered violence. Through comparative analysis, we demonstrate the importance of (1) the interaction between shifting local political conditions an…
The Murders of Indigenous Women in Canada as Feminicides: Toward a Decolonial Intersectional Reconceptualization of Femicide
In this article, I focus on the murders of over six hundred Indigenous women in Canada to argue that the radical feminist concept of femicide is limited in its capacity to help us analyze the killing of women as a product of intersecting structures of inequality and colonial histories. These murders constitute racialized gendered violence rooted in the ongoing material and discursive effects of colonial power relations and require a conceptualiza…
Feminicidio: TWAIL in Action
Feminicidio is a Mexican adaptation of the radical feminist concept of femicide, usually defined as the misogynous murder of women by men because they are women. In this essay based on original fieldwork, I seek to contribute to Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholarship by providing a brief analysis of the engagement of Mexican grassroots feminist activists with international human rights law in their struggle against the sy…
Transforming feminicidio: Framing, institutionalization and social change
This article analyses the transformation of femicide from an academic concept into a frame for political struggle, and into a crime in the context of Mexican feminist activism against the murders of women, or feminicidios, in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua City. Through analysis of interviews with Mexican activists, the author argues that the implications of the transformations of feminicidio for social change are tied to the interplay between the t…
A feminist challenge to the gendered politics of the public/private divide: On Due Diligence, Domestic Violence, and Citizenship
This article examines the feminist appropriation of the legal principle of due diligence to politicize acts of violence at the hands of private actors within the private sphere. This move expanded traditional notions of state responsibility for violence against women under international human rights law. Using frame analysis, we focus on the institutionalization of this feminist understanding of due diligence through its discursive incorporation …
The sexual politics of citizenship and reproductive rights in Ireland: From national, international, supranational and transnational to postnational claims to membership
Claims concerning the death of the nation-state are often accompanied by postnationalist arguments that emphasize the potential of human rights to contest nation-bounded conceptualizations of membership. Conversely, arguments focusing on the continuing importance of state-bounded social citizenship rights undermine such postnationalist claims. To assess these claims, this article turns to the Irish state and its prohibition of abortion except in …
Representation as a Technology of Violence: On the Representation of the Murders and Disappearances of Aboriginal Women in Canada and Women in Ciudad Juarez
This article focuses on the press coverage of the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women in Canada and women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to analyze the relationship between the representation of violence and the violence of representation. It takes as its point of departure the notion of representation as a technology of violence that has both discursive and material effects. Drawing on the concept of abjection, I argue that the discursive …
The Murders of Indigenous Women in Canada as Feminicides: Toward a Decolonial Intersectional Reconceptualization of Femicide
In this article, I focus on the murders of over six hundred Indigenous women in Canada to argue that the radical feminist concept of femicide is limited in its capacity to help us analyze the killing of women as a product of intersecting structures of inequality and colonial histories. These murders constitute racialized gendered violence rooted in the ongoing material and discursive effects of colonial power relations and require a conceptualiza…
The Making and Unmaking of Feminicidio/Femicidio Laws in Mexico and Nicaragua
This article examines the contested process of law-making related to the killing of women which resulted in the criminalization of feminicide (feminicidio) and femicide (femicidio) in Mexico and Nicaragua, two countries in which feminists engaged in legal activism to increase state accountability for gendered violence. Through comparative analysis, we demonstrate the importance of (1) the interaction between shifting local political conditions an…
Transforming feminicidio: Framing, institutionalization and social change
This article analyses the transformation of femicide from an academic concept into a frame for political struggle, and into a crime in the context of Mexican feminist activism against the murders of women, or feminicidios, in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua City. Through analysis of interviews with Mexican activists, the author argues that the implications of the transformations of feminicidio for social change are tied to the interplay between the t…
Representation as a Technology of Violence: On the Representation of the Murders and Disappearances of Aboriginal Women in Canada and Women in Ciudad Juarez
This article focuses on the press coverage of the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women in Canada and women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to analyze the relationship between the representation of violence and the violence of representation. It takes as its point of departure the notion of representation as a technology of violence that has both discursive and material effects. Drawing on the concept of abjection, I argue that the discursive …
A feminist challenge to the gendered politics of the public/private divide: On Due Diligence, Domestic Violence, and Citizenship
This article examines the feminist appropriation of the legal principle of due diligence to politicize acts of violence at the hands of private actors within the private sphere. This move expanded traditional notions of state responsibility for violence against women under international human rights law. Using frame analysis, we focus on the institutionalization of this feminist understanding of due diligence through its discursive incorporation …
The sexual politics of citizenship and reproductive rights in Ireland: From national, international, supranational and transnational to postnational claims to membership
Claims concerning the death of the nation-state are often accompanied by postnationalist arguments that emphasize the potential of human rights to contest nation-bounded conceptualizations of membership. Conversely, arguments focusing on the continuing importance of state-bounded social citizenship rights undermine such postnationalist claims. To assess these claims, this article turns to the Irish state and its prohibition of abortion except in …
State Complicity: Settler Colonialism, Multisided Violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
This article theorizes and analyzes the Canadian state’s complicity in the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) in terms of the acts of omission (inaction) and commission (action) of the police and courts. Building on the intersectional perspective of Indigenous and antiracist feminist scholarship on MMIWG, I argue that these acts of omission and commission are rooted in a context of “multisided violence” that is colo…
Practicing Accountability, Challenging Gendered State Resistance: Feminist Legislators and Feminicidio in Mexico
In the late 1990s, Mexican feminists mobilized transnationally to demand state accountability for the feminicidios (feminicides) of women in Ciudad Juarez. Feminicidio refers to the misogynous killing of women and the state's complicity in this violence by tolerating it with impunity. Drawing on debates of the Mexican Federal Congress (1997-2012) and interviews with feminist state and non-state actors, I examine feminist legislators' response to …
Representation as a Technology of Violence: On the Representation of the Murders and Disappearances of Aboriginal Women in Canada and Women in Ciudad Juarez
This article focuses on the press coverage of the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women in Canada and women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to analyze the relationship between the representation of violence and the violence of representation. It takes as its point of departure the notion of representation as a technology of violence that has both discursive and material effects. Drawing on the concept of abjection, I argue that the discursive …
The sexual politics of citizenship and reproductive rights in Ireland: From national, international, supranational and transnational to postnational claims to membership
Claims concerning the death of the nation-state are often accompanied by postnationalist arguments that emphasize the potential of human rights to contest nation-bounded conceptualizations of membership. Conversely, arguments focusing on the continuing importance of state-bounded social citizenship rights undermine such postnationalist claims. To assess these claims, this article turns to the Irish state and its prohibition of abortion except in …
A feminist challenge to the gendered politics of the public/private divide: On Due Diligence, Domestic Violence, and Citizenship
This article examines the feminist appropriation of the legal principle of due diligence to politicize acts of violence at the hands of private actors within the private sphere. This move expanded traditional notions of state responsibility for violence against women under international human rights law. Using frame analysis, we focus on the institutionalization of this feminist understanding of due diligence through its discursive incorporation …
Feminicidio: TWAIL in Action
Feminicidio is a Mexican adaptation of the radical feminist concept of femicide, usually defined as the misogynous murder of women by men because they are women. In this essay based on original fieldwork, I seek to contribute to Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholarship by providing a brief analysis of the engagement of Mexican grassroots feminist activists with international human rights law in their struggle against the sy…
Transforming feminicidio: Framing, institutionalization and social change
This article analyses the transformation of femicide from an academic concept into a frame for political struggle, and into a crime in the context of Mexican feminist activism against the murders of women, or feminicidios, in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua City. Through analysis of interviews with Mexican activists, the author argues that the implications of the transformations of feminicidio for social change are tied to the interplay between the t…
The Murders of Indigenous Women in Canada as Feminicides: Toward a Decolonial Intersectional Reconceptualization of Femicide
In this article, I focus on the murders of over six hundred Indigenous women in Canada to argue that the radical feminist concept of femicide is limited in its capacity to help us analyze the killing of women as a product of intersecting structures of inequality and colonial histories. These murders constitute racialized gendered violence rooted in the ongoing material and discursive effects of colonial power relations and require a conceptualiza…
The “Formally Feminist State”: A Potential New Player in the Inter-American Human Rights System
A decade ago, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark judgment in the case of González and Others (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico , which addressed the abduction and subsequent sexual murder of three young women in the industrial border city of Ciudad Juárez—a place known for systematic gender violence and impunity. For the victims’ next of kin and the feminist and human rights activists involved in the litigation, the murders const…
The Making and Unmaking of Feminicidio/Femicidio Laws in Mexico and Nicaragua
This article examines the contested process of law-making related to the killing of women which resulted in the criminalization of feminicide (feminicidio) and femicide (femicidio) in Mexico and Nicaragua, two countries in which feminists engaged in legal activism to increase state accountability for gendered violence. Through comparative analysis, we demonstrate the importance of (1) the interaction between shifting local political conditions an…
Mujeres Y Niñas Indígenas Desaparecidas Y Asesinadas: Femicidio, Feminicidio, y Genocidio en el Contexto Canadiense
A pesar de enfatizar las semejanzas entre los feminicidios de Ciudad Juárez y las desapariciones y asesinatos de mujeres y niñas indígenas en Canadá (MMIWG por sus siglas en inglés), las activistas y académicas indígenas no utilizan el concepto de feminicidio para enmarcar este tipo de violencia. Las académicas usan el término de genocidio y las activistas transnacionales la enmarcan como discriminación interseccional y una violación a los derech…
Practicing Accountability, Challenging Gendered State Resistance: Feminist Legislators and Feminicidio in Mexico
In the late 1990s, Mexican feminists mobilized transnationally to demand state accountability for the feminicidios (feminicides) of women in Ciudad Juarez. Feminicidio refers to the misogynous killing of women and the state's complicity in this violence by tolerating it with impunity. Drawing on debates of the Mexican Federal Congress (1997-2012) and interviews with feminist state and non-state actors, I examine feminist legislators' response to …
Indigenous women, multiple violences, and legal activism: Beyond the dichotomy of human rights as “law” and as “ideas for social movements”
This review interrogates the divide between human rights “as ideas for social movements” and human rights “as law” that permeates the literature on human rights law and gender violence by putting it into conversation with the scholarship on Indigenous women's legal activism against the multiple forms of violence that they face. This divide obscures the ways in which Indigenous women across the Americas have appropriated and re‐signified the disco…
State Complicity: Settler Colonialism, Multisided Violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
This article theorizes and analyzes the Canadian state’s complicity in the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) in terms of the acts of omission (inaction) and commission (action) of the police and courts. Building on the intersectional perspective of Indigenous and antiracist feminist scholarship on MMIWG, I argue that these acts of omission and commission are rooted in a context of “multisided violence” that is colo…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Human rights (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (5 works) · Complicity (4 works)