Veronica Valencia Gonzalez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3833283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Valencia Gonzalez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica Valencia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gonzalez |
| SIGNATURE | GONZALEZ V V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6283-6856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Aguantar , Gendered Expectation, and the Limits of Safety in Rural Michoacán
This article examines aguantar , the moral expectation that women endure suffering, as a form of gendered governance in rural Michoacán, Mexico. Drawing on 26 qualitative interviews with women, including trans women, the study conceptualizes endurance not as resilience but as a moral infrastructure that organizes belonging, safety, and respectability amid structural neglect and endemic violence. Aguantar transforms abandonment into obligation, ma…
Food as Methodological Infrastructure
Qualitative interviews are often treated as neutral tools for eliciting information, with methodological attention focused on question design, rapport, and researcher reflexivity. This article advances a methodological intervention by theorizing food as methodological infrastructure—a design arrangement that shapes power, temporality, consent, and disclosure within research encounters. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2022 and …
Erasing gendered death
The empirical authority of state-centered criminological knowledge often depends on the bureaucracies that decide which deaths are countable. This article conceptualizes bureaucracies of (Un)Knowing: institutional systems that organize ignorance while appearing to produce knowledge. Focusing on the omission of “femicide” from U.S. law and data, it examines how classification, measurement, and silence operate as technologies of governance. Through…
The Relational Interview
This article introduces the relational interview, a qualitative method for studying experiences that are jointly produced, relationally negotiated, and distributed across social relationships. Conventional qualitative interviews treat individuals as discrete units of knowledge, limiting analytic access to relational processes such as narrative alignment, divergence, silence, and revision. The relational interview addresses this limitation through…
Aesthetic governance in courts and workplaces
Across courts and workplaces, appearance functions as a condition of institutional visibility. This article theorizes aesthetic governance as a sociolegal mechanism through which law regulates bodies by allocating perceptual attention under conditions of finite observational capacity and dense normative expectations. In rule-saturated environments, scrutiny cannot be evenly distributed. Aesthetic deviation lowers thresholds of attention, concentr…
Punishment as class governance
Punishment is commonly understood as a response to criminal behavior calibrated by offense severity or legal proportionality. This article advances a different account. It argues that punishment operates as a system of class governance structured through bureaucratic practices of knowing and not-knowing. Criminal-legal institutions do not simply sanction wrongdoing; they organize unequal exposure to punishment by differentially rendering populati…
We Were Never Meant to Be Neutral
This article examines the epistemic, political, and affective divides shaping femicide response in Mexico, highlighting the conflicting logics between formal institutional actors and grassroots feminist organizers. Drawing on 64 interviews and sustained community engagement across rural Michoacán and Mexico City, it introduces three co-produced conceptual frameworks—the IPV Perception Gap, Localized Violence Realities (LVR), and the Cultural Conf…
The Unascended Pyramid the Limits of State Response to IPV in Rural Michoacán
This study examines how rural women in Michoacán, Mexico understand and navigate intimate partner violence (IPV) amid poverty, limited state presence, and institutional promotion of legal intervention. Drawing on 64 qualitative interviews and embedded observation, the findings show a disconnect between institutional and community definitions of harm, strategic disengagement from legal systems, and reliance on relational, community-based responses…
Courage in Crisis
This study examines how Latina immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) understand and navigate California's sanctuary policies when deciding whether to seek formal help. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 12 immigrant IPV survivors and 14 service providers in Southern California, the findings reveal significant gaps in knowledge and trust surrounding sanctuary policies. Despite policies intended to limit cooperation with federa…
Statewide sanctuary policies and female homicide rates, 2016–2021
The current study examines whether state immigration enforcement policies, such as sanctuary policies that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, are associated with female homicide rates in the United States (2016–2021). We examine crude female homicide rates from the National Violent Death Reporting System ( N = 244 state‐years), which we stratify by race and ethnicity (Hispanic of all races, non‐Hispanic Black, an…
Factors Enhancing Resilience Among Youth Exposed to Macro-Level Violence in Spanish-Speaking Countries in Latin America
This scoping review aimed to synthesize current literature on strengths associated with resilience and well-being among youth in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries exposed to macro-level violence and by type of exposure (i.e., political, community, and anti-LGBTQ+ violence and child soldiers)—guided by the Resilience Portfolio Model (RPM). Following the Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis-Scoping Review (PRISM…
Contrasting organizational responses to femicide in Mexico’s public health crisis
Femicide prevention frameworks in Mexico must move beyond symbolic gestures of inclusion and begin to reckon with the structural exclusion of grassroots knowledge and labor. Meaningful response requires a shift in power and priorities-one that values community knowledge, centers survivor-defined metrics of safety and trust, and explores models of shared governance in contexts where institutional systems are distrusted or absent. In such settings,…
Grassroots Memory and Maternal Refusal in Michoacán
Conceptions of Recovery and Relapse of Severe Mental Illness from the Perspective of Mental Health Personnel in Mexico City
This study explores recovery from severe mental disorders from the perspective of 89 mental health care professionals working in Mexico City, using a mixed method approach. The participants were recruited and interviewed from mental health and addiction treatment facilities in Mexico City using convenience sampling techniques. Transcribed interviews were coded and analyzed for thematic content regarding recovery and relapse of mental illness. On …
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Conceptions of Recovery and Relapse of Severe Mental Illness from the Perspective of Mental Health Personnel in Mexico City
This study explores recovery from severe mental disorders from the perspective of 89 mental health care professionals working in Mexico City, using a mixed method approach. The participants were recruited and interviewed from mental health and addiction treatment facilities in Mexico City using convenience sampling techniques. Transcribed interviews were coded and analyzed for thematic content regarding recovery and relapse of mental illness. On …
Factors Enhancing Resilience Among Youth Exposed to Macro-Level Violence in Spanish-Speaking Countries in Latin America
This scoping review aimed to synthesize current literature on strengths associated with resilience and well-being among youth in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries exposed to macro-level violence and by type of exposure (i.e., political, community, and anti-LGBTQ+ violence and child soldiers)—guided by the Resilience Portfolio Model (RPM). Following the Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis-Scoping Review (PRISM…
Contrasting organizational responses to femicide in Mexico’s public health crisis
Femicide prevention frameworks in Mexico must move beyond symbolic gestures of inclusion and begin to reckon with the structural exclusion of grassroots knowledge and labor. Meaningful response requires a shift in power and priorities-one that values community knowledge, centers survivor-defined metrics of safety and trust, and explores models of shared governance in contexts where institutional systems are distrusted or absent. In such settings,…
Grassroots Memory and Maternal Refusal in Michoacán
Aguantar , Gendered Expectation, and the Limits of Safety in Rural Michoacán
This article examines aguantar , the moral expectation that women endure suffering, as a form of gendered governance in rural Michoacán, Mexico. Drawing on 26 qualitative interviews with women, including trans women, the study conceptualizes endurance not as resilience but as a moral infrastructure that organizes belonging, safety, and respectability amid structural neglect and endemic violence. Aguantar transforms abandonment into obligation, ma…
Food as Methodological Infrastructure
Qualitative interviews are often treated as neutral tools for eliciting information, with methodological attention focused on question design, rapport, and researcher reflexivity. This article advances a methodological intervention by theorizing food as methodological infrastructure—a design arrangement that shapes power, temporality, consent, and disclosure within research encounters. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2022 and …
Erasing gendered death
The empirical authority of state-centered criminological knowledge often depends on the bureaucracies that decide which deaths are countable. This article conceptualizes bureaucracies of (Un)Knowing: institutional systems that organize ignorance while appearing to produce knowledge. Focusing on the omission of “femicide” from U.S. law and data, it examines how classification, measurement, and silence operate as technologies of governance. Through…
The Relational Interview
This article introduces the relational interview, a qualitative method for studying experiences that are jointly produced, relationally negotiated, and distributed across social relationships. Conventional qualitative interviews treat individuals as discrete units of knowledge, limiting analytic access to relational processes such as narrative alignment, divergence, silence, and revision. The relational interview addresses this limitation through…
Aesthetic governance in courts and workplaces
Across courts and workplaces, appearance functions as a condition of institutional visibility. This article theorizes aesthetic governance as a sociolegal mechanism through which law regulates bodies by allocating perceptual attention under conditions of finite observational capacity and dense normative expectations. In rule-saturated environments, scrutiny cannot be evenly distributed. Aesthetic deviation lowers thresholds of attention, concentr…
Punishment as class governance
Punishment is commonly understood as a response to criminal behavior calibrated by offense severity or legal proportionality. This article advances a different account. It argues that punishment operates as a system of class governance structured through bureaucratic practices of knowing and not-knowing. Criminal-legal institutions do not simply sanction wrongdoing; they organize unequal exposure to punishment by differentially rendering populati…
We Were Never Meant to Be Neutral
This article examines the epistemic, political, and affective divides shaping femicide response in Mexico, highlighting the conflicting logics between formal institutional actors and grassroots feminist organizers. Drawing on 64 interviews and sustained community engagement across rural Michoacán and Mexico City, it introduces three co-produced conceptual frameworks—the IPV Perception Gap, Localized Violence Realities (LVR), and the Cultural Conf…
The Unascended Pyramid the Limits of State Response to IPV in Rural Michoacán
This study examines how rural women in Michoacán, Mexico understand and navigate intimate partner violence (IPV) amid poverty, limited state presence, and institutional promotion of legal intervention. Drawing on 64 qualitative interviews and embedded observation, the findings show a disconnect between institutional and community definitions of harm, strategic disengagement from legal systems, and reliance on relational, community-based responses…
Courage in Crisis
This study examines how Latina immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) understand and navigate California's sanctuary policies when deciding whether to seek formal help. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 12 immigrant IPV survivors and 14 service providers in Southern California, the findings reveal significant gaps in knowledge and trust surrounding sanctuary policies. Despite policies intended to limit cooperation with federa…
Statewide sanctuary policies and female homicide rates, 2016–2021
The current study examines whether state immigration enforcement policies, such as sanctuary policies that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, are associated with female homicide rates in the United States (2016–2021). We examine crude female homicide rates from the National Violent Death Reporting System ( N = 244 state‐years), which we stratify by race and ethnicity (Hispanic of all races, non‐Hispanic Black, an…
Poison control (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Domestic violence (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (3 works) · Suicide prevention (3 works)