Genocide, femicide, and feminicide as concepts and frames in Canada and Mexico: extending transnational dialogues on colonialism, the state, and gendered violence against Indigenous women and girls

Paulina García-Del Moral

Chapter 14 in Handbook on Politics and Society, 2025, pp 258-276 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter analyses how genocide and femicide/feminicide have emerged as concepts and frames to hold states accountable for their complicity in violence against women and girls. By tracing these terms’ conceptual history through a comparison between Canada and Mexico, the chapter identifies their implications as frames, domestically and transnationally. Focusing on the strategies that Indigenous activists have used to frame the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, I emphasize that this is especially relevant when it comes to capturing how colonialism and the intersection of gender and race shape the role of states in violence against marginalized women and girls. Rather than arguing for or against the use of these terms in Latin America, Canada, or elsewhere, my aim is to outline their potential gains and limitations, extending transnational dialogues on colonialism, the state, and extreme forms of gendered violence against Indigenous women and girls.

Keywords: Genocide; Femicide; Feminicide; Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; Intersectionality; Settler colonialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035301898
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