Dr. Sara DiazWGST 202: Gender, Difference, and PowerGonzaga University

Globalization of Violence

POEMS

Feminicides• Ciudad Juarez, border town neighboring El Paso, TX• 370+ serial murders of women since 1993• Women are of a similar height and weight, shoulder length

dark hair.• Work primarily in Maquilas and often go missing when leaving

work.• Police investigations have been mismanaged (evidence lost or

mishandled). • Few arrests or prosecutions.• Little investigation.• These serial feminicides are still unsolved.

Response Question

How is the globalization of industrial capital linked to violence against women in the case of feminicide in Ciudad Juarez?

Trafficking in Women• The recruitment,

harboring, movement, or obtaining of person by force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of involuntary servitude, debt bondage, or slavery.

• Women do all kinds of work

• In Thailand trafficking is huge industry that is equivalent to 50-60% of the Thai govt’s annual budget.

17%

13%

13%40%

17%

Factory Work Restaurant WorkServile Marriage Domestic WorkSex Work

Discussion QuestionsDiscussion Questions• How is trafficking in women related to the gendered division

of labor?

• How does the globalization of violence lead to incarceration?

• How does Sudbury connect globalization to the increase in women’s incarceration?

• What are the effects of women’s incarceration on families?

Reminder• Unit 3 Journal due next Monday• No class next Wednesday or Friday• There are Daily Responses DUE!!!!• Watch films and read!• A short interlude into women in relation to media

representations before we move on to our unit on violence

Globalization Everyday• Option A:• Pick an item you have with you. Where did it come from? Whose

hands have touched it? What exploitations are embedded in it? IMAGINE. How could you resist or undermine those exploitations.

• Write a poem, collectively, about how we can resist the exploitation embedded in the products we consume.

• Option B:• Identify the forces of globalization on our campus. Where does

Gonzaga fit in the system of global capital? What resources do we take for granted here that might be causing human and environmental suffering elsewhere? How does it make you feel?

• Write a poem, collectively, about the impact of Gonzaga’s global economic/environmental footprint, designed to encourage action on the part of your classmates.