1. Hello my name is Melissa W. Wright; I am an associate professor of geography
in the department of women’s studies at Pennsylvania State University. I am the
author of Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism (2006). I also
wrote many articles base on capitalism, gender, power and nationality in Mexico and
China. I wrote about Necropolitics, Narcopolitics, and Femicide: Gendered Violence
on the Mexico-U.S. Border.
My focused is on the emergence of an international social movement that
protest violence against women along the Mexico –US border.
Narcropolitics is politics and a form of informal governing/control related to drugs and
drugs trafficking My thought about the Narcopolitics involves the Mexican
government. The govement mentions how the deaths in Juarez and throughout Mexico
are certified to the drug wars and that those who are murdered were involved in the
drug trade. As the ones who are committing the murders called the narcos which in
English stands for drug lords, are the ones who are committing rational
murders.consequently, these murders are “justified” according to some officials in
Mexico, making it unfair for the victims’ families. I account for both nacopolitics and
femicide using the concept of gendering to explain both issues in the Ciudad Juarez.
Some models in which I use in my article is Narcopolitics which is a form of informal
governing using politics in order to control drugs trafficking.
I believe that Necropolitics and femicide are a major issues happening in Ciudad
Juarez which are in need of help.