Vanessa Freije
Biographic Data
| ID | 691505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Freije |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Freije |
| SIGNATURE | FREIJE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-2051-3215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“The Word of the State against Ours”
This article brings together two stories of 1970s Mexico that are often narrated separately: the story of the PRI’s attempts to reform itself, specifically through the right to know, and the story of activists’ mobilizations against disappearances. Epistemic struggles surrounding the right to know and disappearances created a shared discursive arena in which activists and state officials contested the nature of information, the authority to produ…
Citizens of Scandal
A Peoples’ Policy for the Americas
The ‘emancipation of media’
Throughout the 1970s, journalists and leaders in the Global South organized around the concept of a New International Information Order (NIIO), premised upon the self-determination of news access and production. Though largely forgotten today, the NIIO constituted a key platform of the ‘Third World’ solidarity movement. Latin America was a prominent site for NIIO activism, and this article examines the regional and local meetings that frequently …
Speaking of Sterilization
In 1974, rumors spread that the Mexican government and foreign doctors were colluding to sterilize schoolchildren. The allegations sparked panic across the Valley of Mexico and prompted popular protests and school closures. Public officials and mainstream journalists portrayed worried parents as ignorant pawns in a conservative conspiracy. Ordinary residents and leftist groups, meanwhile, accused the government of using family planning to uproot …
Cultures of Authoritarianism and Resistance in Mexico and Brazil
This essay reviews the following works:Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil. By Benjamin A. Cowan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 311. 39.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826358370
Eclipse of the Assassins
The murder of Manuel Buendía, a prominent Mexican columnist, dominated news coverage in the summer of 1984 and outraged many influential Mexico City journalists and intellectuals. Five years passed before the special prosecutor indicted José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez, former director of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS), one of Mexico's intelligence agencies. However, many close observers of the case doubted that Buendía's assassination was t…
Exposing Scandals, Guarding Secrets
On January 14, 1982, residents of Tula, Hidalgo, discovered the bodies of nine murdered men floating in a sewage drain emanating from Mexico City. All bore signs of gruesome torture. Red Cross workers soon located three more bodies, leading one reporter to describe the homicides as “the crime of the century.” Detectives initially asserted that the victims were drug traffickers who had been murdered by a rival gang. Manuel Buendía, in his weekday …
The ‘emancipation of media’
Throughout the 1970s, journalists and leaders in the Global South organized around the concept of a New International Information Order (NIIO), premised upon the self-determination of news access and production. Though largely forgotten today, the NIIO constituted a key platform of the ‘Third World’ solidarity movement. Latin America was a prominent site for NIIO activism, and this article examines the regional and local meetings that frequently …
Exposing Scandals, Guarding Secrets
On January 14, 1982, residents of Tula, Hidalgo, discovered the bodies of nine murdered men floating in a sewage drain emanating from Mexico City. All bore signs of gruesome torture. Red Cross workers soon located three more bodies, leading one reporter to describe the homicides as “the crime of the century.” Detectives initially asserted that the victims were drug traffickers who had been murdered by a rival gang. Manuel Buendía, in his weekday …
Speaking of Sterilization
In 1974, rumors spread that the Mexican government and foreign doctors were colluding to sterilize schoolchildren. The allegations sparked panic across the Valley of Mexico and prompted popular protests and school closures. Public officials and mainstream journalists portrayed worried parents as ignorant pawns in a conservative conspiracy. Ordinary residents and leftist groups, meanwhile, accused the government of using family planning to uproot …
Exposing Scandals, Guarding Secrets
On January 14, 1982, residents of Tula, Hidalgo, discovered the bodies of nine murdered men floating in a sewage drain emanating from Mexico City. All bore signs of gruesome torture. Red Cross workers soon located three more bodies, leading one reporter to describe the homicides as “the crime of the century.” Detectives initially asserted that the victims were drug traffickers who had been murdered by a rival gang. Manuel Buendía, in his weekday …
Eclipse of the Assassins
The murder of Manuel Buendía, a prominent Mexican columnist, dominated news coverage in the summer of 1984 and outraged many influential Mexico City journalists and intellectuals. Five years passed before the special prosecutor indicted José Antonio Zorrilla Pérez, former director of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS), one of Mexico's intelligence agencies. However, many close observers of the case doubted that Buendía's assassination was t…
The ‘emancipation of media’
Throughout the 1970s, journalists and leaders in the Global South organized around the concept of a New International Information Order (NIIO), premised upon the self-determination of news access and production. Though largely forgotten today, the NIIO constituted a key platform of the ‘Third World’ solidarity movement. Latin America was a prominent site for NIIO activism, and this article examines the regional and local meetings that frequently …
Speaking of Sterilization
In 1974, rumors spread that the Mexican government and foreign doctors were colluding to sterilize schoolchildren. The allegations sparked panic across the Valley of Mexico and prompted popular protests and school closures. Public officials and mainstream journalists portrayed worried parents as ignorant pawns in a conservative conspiracy. Ordinary residents and leftist groups, meanwhile, accused the government of using family planning to uproot …
Cultures of Authoritarianism and Resistance in Mexico and Brazil
This essay reviews the following works:Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil. By Benjamin A. Cowan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 311. 39.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826358370
Citizens of Scandal
A Peoples’ Policy for the Americas
“The Word of the State against Ours”
This article brings together two stories of 1970s Mexico that are often narrated separately: the story of the PRI’s attempts to reform itself, specifically through the right to know, and the story of activists’ mobilizations against disappearances. Epistemic struggles surrounding the right to know and disappearances created a shared discursive arena in which activists and state officials contested the nature of information, the authority to produ…
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)