iMex. México Interdisciplinario/Interdisciplinary Mexico (Jan 2016)

This is what the worship of death looks like. Capitalismo Gore, TLCAN y máquina feminicida

  • Sayak Valencia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.23692/iMex.9.10
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 9
pp. 106 – 118

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The aim of this paper is to articulate a reflection on necropolitics gender relationship between Gore Capitalism and femicide machine, taking the signing of NAFTA in November 1993 as a historic moment that gives the conditions of possibility for crystallization of multiple neo-colonial narratives on the promise of «progress and modernization» that redistributed and strengthen the capitalist hetereopatriarchy project, understood as «a classless, interracial and intergenerational pact between males where appropriate the bodies of women, as private property «(Amorós, 1994: 27). The pact will work in several concentric levels to produce a contradictory logic: allied and antagonistic at the same time. Articulating the possibility of being read from a transfeminist perspective, that is, from a feminist position that explores the intersections between gender, race / ethnicity and class in México, brought by NAFTA.

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