Legal Violence and the Gendered Necropolitics of Coloniality: Feminicide, Socioeconomic Marginalization, and Housing Rights Violations against Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Canada

Q3 Social Sciences Genocide Studies International Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.3138/gsi-2021-0022
Lauren E. Grant
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Abstract:This paper argues that feminicidal and sexual gender-based violence faced by Indigenous women in Guatemala and Canada is a cause and consequence of these states' failure to effectively guarantee Indigenous women's intersecting socio-economic rights, namely their right to adequate housing. Exposing the historically-rooted, economic and political interests and investments of the two countries, this paper argues that Indigenous women's rights have been co-opted by legal violence in both contexts. Revealing the complicity of settler democratic states and the international human rights regime in sustaining these rights violations, this paper evidences Indigenous women's socio-economic marginalization, inadequate housing, and consequential feminicidal violence as the product of the gendered necropolitics of coloniality. Interrogating why and how these colonial genocidal structures sustain the subjugation of Indigenous women's bodies, this paper exposes how colonial genocidal structures have rendered Indigenous women illegible for protection under international human rights law. Highlighting a range of performative attempts undertaken by the Guatemala and Canada to address the grave rights violations facing Indigenous women, this paper provides a feminist, decolonial framework that evidences why and how Indigenous women's experiences of socioeconomic marginalization, inadequate and unsafe housing, and the alarming rates of feminicidal and sexual gender-based violence continue to persist unabated.
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法律暴力与殖民地的性别化死亡政治:危地马拉和加拿大针对土著妇女的杀戮、社会经济边缘化和侵犯住房权行为
摘要:本文认为,危地马拉和加拿大土著妇女所面临的女性暴力和基于性别的性暴力,是这两个国家未能有效保障土著妇女相互交织的社会经济权利(即适足住房权)的原因和结果。本文揭露了这两个国家根植于历史的经济和政治利益与投资,认为土著妇女的权利在这两个国家都被法律暴力所利用。本文揭示了定居者民主国家和国际人权制度在维持这些侵权行为方面的共谋关系,证明土著妇女的社会经济边缘化、住房不足以及随之而来的女性暴力是殖民主义性别化死亡政治的产物。本文探讨了这些殖民种族灭绝结构为何以及如何维持对土著妇女身体的奴役,揭露了殖民种族灭绝结构如何使土著妇女无法获得国际人权法的保护。本文强调了危地马拉和加拿大为解决土著妇女面临的严重侵权问题所做的一系列表演性尝试,提供了一个女权主义的非殖民主义框架,证明了土著妇女的社会经济边缘化经历、不适当和不安全的住房以及令人震惊的女性暴力和基于性别的性暴力的发生率为何以及如何继续有增无减。
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