Regina José Galindo Estoy Viva Skira Edition 2014 Multilanguage D.Sileo E.Viola

Curatore: D. Sileo, E. Viola

Editore: Skira

Collana: Arte moderna. Cataloghi

Anno edizione: 2014

Release: 24 aprile 2014

Pagine: 257 p., ill. , Brossura

EAN: 9788857223186

Anno edizione: 2014

Condition: Excellent

was 1993, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on the border with the United States. Women began to disappear, and their lifeless bodies started to be found. From 1993 to 2003 alone, a total of 410 women were killed 1 , tortured, raped and abandoned in the desert. The desert is full of questions. What word can we use in order not to transform the murders of women from Juárez into a landmark case, making the vastness of the crime invisible and generalizing the problem? What word can be constructed to express the political meaning of violence against women? How can we unmask the mechanisms of a violence that maintains and reproduces asymmetrical power relationships, so ingrained as to be perceived as normal and natural? How can we conceive a new vocabulary 2 to create meanings that are constructed through collective conversations and audacious practices? In that desert, in order to start talking, one of the first things we become aware of is that studying the etymology of the terms is of no use, that we can see and make visible the atrocity of an event without reproducing violence and that, through choral practices, we can transform pain into the possibility of knowledge. The word "The life of words is drawn simultaneously on a field of experience and the socio-political practice that analyzes its effects on the community of speakers" 3. Who are the women of Ciudad Juárez? What chance of speech and visibility do they have, starting with the social inequalities to which they are subjected? Indigenous women, migrants, maquilladoras workers 4 , women whose race and gender place them in a particularly vulnerable position 5. In Latin American societies, with their history of colonization processes and genocide, the value of lives has historically been hierarchical. Killers of women are part of the history of Latin America, but in modern times, what changes are the reasons and the forms of the phenomenon, and this obliges us to rethink and give a name to other forms of violence. What does it mean to be a Latin American at the height of globalization 6 ? What does it mean to be a Maquilla worker in Juárez? "Latin American women in the era of globalization, whether integrated or not", writes feminist anthropologist Marcela Lagarde, "come from the rise of conquered and colonized societies and States that originated through violent processes or genocide. These societies were shaped by patriarchy. The social and political malformations have lived alongside distorted echoes of democracy and humanist utopias of freedom, where the States were weak and subsidiary mechanisms prevailed.