Search Results - "Wright, Melissa W."

Necropolitics, Narcopolitics, and Femicide: Gendered Violence on the Mexico-U.S. Border by Wright, Melissa W.

“…In 1993, a group of women shocked Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, with the news that dozens of girls and women had been murdered and dumped, like garbage, around the…”
Get full text

Border Thinking, Borderland Diversity, and Trump's Wall by Wright, Melissa W

“…Donald Trump's agenda to build a "big" and "beautiful" border wall continues to raise alarms for anyone concerned with social justice and environmental…”
Get full text

Geography and gender: Feminism and a feeling of justice by Wright, Melissa W.

“…The recent emphasis on emotional geographies has turned critical attention to the connections linking affect and social justice. It is hard to imagine this…”
Get full text

Against the Evils of Democracy: Fighting Forced Disappearance and Neoliberal Terror in Mexico by Wright, Melissa W.

“…On 26 September 2014, Mexican police forces in Iguala, Guerrero, attacked and abducted four dozen students known as normalistas (student teachers); some were…”
Get full text

Epistemological Ignorances and Fighting for the Disappeared: Lessons from Mexico by Wright, Melissa W.

“…Social justice struggles across the Americas have, over the last half century, transformed the urban areas of this region into international staging grounds…”
Get full text

Visualizing a country without a future: Posters for Ayotzinapa, Mexico and struggles against state terror by Wright, Melissa W.

“…On September 26, 2014, Mexico police forces ambushed several student buses from a rural teachers college in southwestern Mexico, killed several and abducted…”
Get full text

The Gender, Place and Culture Jan Monk Distinguished Annual Lecture: Gentrification, assassination and forgetting in Mexico: a feminist Marxist tale by Wright, Melissa W.

“…In this article, I employ feminist and Marxist tools to expose the struggles over the constant plunder and expansion of global capitalism along Mexico's…”
Get full text

Gender and geography II: bridging the gap — feminist, queer, and the geographical imaginary by Wright, Melissa W.

“…Within geography, the flourishing of studies on sexuality indicate the vibrancy of scholarship that approaches sexuality as a nexus of the global and the…”
Get full text

Gender and geography: knowledge and activism across the intimately global by Wright, Melissa W.

“…Without a doubt, feminist geography offers extensive discussions on the unification of research and activism, such as by making activism count within the…”
Get full text

Feminicidio, Narcoviolence, and Gentrification in Ciudad Juárez: The Feminist Fight by Wright, Melissa W

“…The fight against impunity continues along Mexico's border, especially in the industrial hub of Ciudad Juárez. In the 1990s feminists brought this fight to…”
Get full text

THE 2010 ANTIPODE RGS-IBG LECTURE Wars of Interpretations by Wright, Melissa W.

“…:  Since 2006, when Mexico's President declared war against the drug trade, the people of the northern Mexican border city, Ciudad Juárez, have been living…”
Get full text

From Protests to Politics: Sex Work, Women's Worth, and Ciudad Juárez Modernity by Wright, Melissa W.

“…This paper combines ethnographic research with discourse analysis to discuss how the protests of women sex workers in downtown Ciudad Juárez also represent…”
Get full text

The Power of Numbers by Castree, Noel, Wright, Melissa W.

Get full text

Urban Geography Plenary Lecture—Femicide, Mother-Activism, And The Geography Of Protest In Northern Mexico by Wright, Melissa W.

Get full text

Craven Emotional Warriors by Wright, Melissa W.

Get full text

Justice and the Geographies of Moral Protest: Reflections from Mexico by Wright, Melissa W

“…Protest movements offer a rich vernacular for investigating how the connections between social justice and creating political subjects always involve spatial…”
Get full text

In the Name of Democracy by Wright, Melissa W.

Get full text

Paradoxes, Protests and the Mujeres de Negro of Northern Mexico by Wright, Melissa W.

“…On November 25, 2002, thousands of people marched through the streets of Mexico City and demanded, in the name of social justice, an end to the violence…”
Get full text

A Manifesto against Femicide by Wright, Melissa W

“…In Ciudad Juárez, a group of feminist activists has established the city's first sexual assault center, called Casa Amiga. They accomplished this feat after…”
Get full text

Desire and the Prosthetics of Supervision: A Case of Maquiladora Flexibility by Wright, Melissa W.

“…Abstract only…”
Get full text