Feminicide and Global Accumulation

Otras Negras … y ¡Feministas! (editor) is a Black Afrodescendent feminist women’s collective from Cali, Colombia. Members include Elba Mercedes Palacios Córdoba, María Campo, Martha Liliana Rivas Orobio, Natalia Andrea Ocoró Grajales, and Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma. Silvia Federici (contributor, translator) is a lauded feminist, Marxist theorist and author of Caliban and the Witch, Revolution at Point Zero, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women among others.  Liz Mason-Deese (contributor, translator) is an editor of Viewpoint Magazine and a long-time participant and translator of women’s movements in Latin America. She is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Susana Draper (contributor, translator) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and author of Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Post-Dictatorship Latin America (2012, 2012) and 1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and Democracy (2018). Her current projects include a book on Marxist Women and Philosophies of Liberation, that reconstructs a history of key figures and moments in women’s critical heterodox expressions of Marxism, mostly focused on Latin America and the United States throughout the 20th century. 

Acknowledgments 



Preface 
Colectivos Otras negras… y¡Feministas! 



Introduction 
Silvia Federici, Liz Mason-Deese, Susana Draper



Chapter 1: Horizon of Reflection: Context and conceptualization of femicide 



Evoking our ancestors: Homage to our maroon heritage
Asociación Casa Cultural El Chontaduro



Victims of development, Afro-urban communities and dynamics of re-existence in Buenaventura
Danelly Estupiñán Valencia



Chapter 2: Pedagogies of cruelty 



Gender and violence in the apocalyptic phase of capital: New reflections in light of the historical transformations of our time. 
Rita Segato



The female body and the territorial body
Alejandra Rangel and Valentina García; Clemencia Fory and Catherine Loboa; María Mercedes Campo and Betty Ruth Lozano



The Uncertainty of femicides in transwomen: Approaches to transgenocides in racialized women
Alejandra Rangel Oliveros and Valentina García Marín



Mobilization of Black women for the care of life and the ancestral territories of the north of Cauca
Clemencia Fory Banguero and Katherine Loboa



Pumpkin, squash, each for her home
María Mercedes Campo, Colectivos Otras negras… y¡Feministas! and Sentipensar Afrodiaspórico 



Conquest of territories and subjectivities
Betty Ruth Lozano, Colectivos Otras negras… y¡Feministas! 



Sexual violence in the genocide against the Mayan People of Guatemala
Aura Cumes



Violence, women, accumulation and racism: Canada and colonialism to Colombia
Sheila Gruner



Chapter 3: A Re-inventory of Pedagogies 



Memories of violence: Women, resistance and identity construction in Guinea Bissau 
Patricia Godinho Gomes



Strategies for “re-existence” among violence (National Panel)
Blanca Astrid Secué and Isaura Sauce; Vicenta Moreno and Ofir Muñoz and Elba Mercedes Palacios Córdoba 



Transforming the pain of femicide into a fight for justice
Helen Álvarez



Women facing the violence of imperialism and fundamentalism in the Middle East
Shahrzad Mojab



Chapter 4: Strategies to face femicide 



Globalization, capital accumulation and violence against women: An international and historical perspective
Silvia Federici 



Experiences and difficulties in accessing and demanding rights (National panel)
Natalia Ocoró, Danny Ramírez and Alejandra Cárdenas 



Difficulties and impossibilities of access to justice by Black women in Colombia. 
Natalia Ocoró Grajales, Colectivos Otras negras… y¡Feministas! 



Perspective of femicides in Buenaventura
Danny Ramírez, activist of the National Conference of Afro-Colombian Organizations (CNOA) 



Obstacles to accessing justice in Colombia
María Alejandra Cárdenas, Legal Director of Women's Link Worldwide 



Chapter 5: Working tables between women



International cooperation, violence against women, and neocolonization processes 



Organizations and social movements: facing or reproducing violence against women 



Configuration of femicides from the urban in an ethnic perspective: processes of impoverishment, exile and domestic service 



Peace process, post-Agreement and reparation to women and their racialized ethnic communities 



“Reexistence” and transitions towards good living: Women's struggle for a different peace from Afro-Ubuntuism in the diaspora 



Appendix



Cultural House Song El Chontaduro 



Alabao to mining. COCOMACIA Gender Commission



Declaration of the International Forum on Feminicides in Ethnic-Racialized Groups: Murder of women and global accumulation. (Buenaventura, Colombia. April 25–28, 2016)