Ciudad Juarez: Surviving: Superfluous Lives and the Banality of Death

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2014

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Ohio State University. Center for Latin American Studies

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Survival in Ciudad Juarez, from 1993 to 2011, has been paradigmatic of death and the devaluing of the lives of men and women. Although the murders of more than a hundred girls and women have been reported by the relatives of victims and women activists, they have gone unpunished. Pressured by the demand for justice, the State denied all responsibility, arguing that those lives were valueless, trivializing their deaths as necessary consequences of economic progress, and the city’s image.

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femicide, male homicide, dehumanization, banality of death, extreme violence

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alter/nativas, latin american cultural studies journal, no. 3 (Autumn 2014)

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http://hdl.handle.net/1811/64792

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alter/nativas: 3, autumn 2014 - Latin American Cultural Studies Practices