Gender-based violence and the patrimonial state in Nicaragua: The rise and fall of Ley 779

Neumann, Pamela

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“…In practice, this discourse has led to the marginalization of women’s rights as a policy priority. For example, the Ortega government has upheld a total ban on abortion since 2007 and many gender-based violence cases are funneled into mediation or family counseling rather than processed within the criminal justice system (Neumann, 2018).…”

Section: The Social and Political Context Of Femicide In Nicaraguamentioning

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“If It’s Not Femicide, It’s Still Murder”: Contestations Over Femicide in Nicaragua

Neumann

2021

Feminist Criminology

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Nicaragua has the dubious distinction of being one of the only countries in the world that has intentionally weakened its existing legislation penalizing the crime of femicide ( femicidio), the murder of women due to their gender. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and content analysis of over 250 newspaper articles, this study examines how these legal changes occurred and their implications for women’s access to legal justice in Nicaragua. Through an analysis of the competing claims of state officials and feminist actors, I demonstrate how femicidio became a contested legal and political category in Nicaragua, to the detriment of women’s lives.

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“If It’s Not Femicide, It’s Still Murder”: Contestations Over Femicide in Nicaragua

Neumann

2021

Feminist Criminology

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“…Domestically, the most important alliance shaping Nicaragua's gender regime is the one Ortega has established with conservative religious groups (Neumann, forthcoming). To maintain their support, Ortega has publicly opposed abortion (illegal since 2006), employed family‐centric rhetoric (Jubb ), and used public resources to support religious groups (Lara ).…”

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The Making and Unmaking of Feminicidio/Femicidio Laws in Mexico and Nicaragua

Moral¹,

Neumann²

2019

Law Soc Rev

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This article examines the contested process of law‐making related to the killing of women which resulted in the criminalization of feminicide (feminicidio) and femicide (femicidio) in Mexico and Nicaragua, two countries in which feminists engaged in legal activism to increase state accountability for gendered violence. Through comparative analysis, we demonstrate the importance of (1) the interaction between shifting local political conditions and supranational opportunities and (2) the position of feminist actors vis‐à‐vis the state and its gender regime in shaping regional variation in the making of laws concerning gendered violence. In Mexico, the criminalization of feminicidio resulted from a successful naming and shaming campaign by local feminist actors linked to litigation in various supranational arenas, and the intervention of feminist federal legislators. In Nicaragua, the codification of femicidio resulted from the state's selective responsiveness to feminist demands in a moment of narrow political opportunity within an otherwise highly consolidated regime. We also examine the unmaking of these laws through their perversion in practice (Mexico) and their intentional undermining (Nicaragua) at the hands of the state. Our analysis demonstrates how states' decisions to enact legislation against gendered violence does not occur solely because they are invested in international legitimacy, but also in response to states' shifting acceptance of the legitimacy of supranational authority itself.

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Parenting the Nation: State Violence and Reproduction in Nicaragua and Sweden

Alm

Berg

2023

Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism

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Reproduction is a core question for the state, a site of struggle between the reproduction of the nation and the reproduction of liveable lives, especially for those citizens whose rights are rarely recognised in the first place. What role does the exceptionalisation of reproductive rights play in the reproduction of the nation-state? Nicaragua and Sweden are countries where debates about reproductive justice highlight tensions in the projection of a state that cares for its citizens: Nicaragua, the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with one of the most repressive and punitive legislations on abortion in the world, and Sweden with its reputation as a pioneering nation in matters of gender equality and reproductive justice. This chapter draws on a particular formulation of the centrality of the state in theories and practices of reproductive justice: the notion of the state as a parent with a particular responsibility to protect and foster, but also discipline and subjugate, its citizens. Political leaders, Fathers and Mothers of the Nation, form the discourse within which the state regulates its imagined children’s, the citizens, reproductive rights. As such the governance of reproduction is a vital aspect of the political fantasy about the nation-state and its futuriority.

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Gender-based violence and the patrimonial state in Nicaragua: The rise and fall of Ley 779

Cited by 4 publications

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“If It’s Not Femicide, It’s Still Murder”: Contestations Over Femicide in Nicaragua

“If It’s Not Femicide, It’s Still Murder”: Contestations Over Femicide in Nicaragua

The Making and Unmaking of Feminicidio/Femicidio Laws in Mexico and Nicaragua

Parenting the Nation: State Violence and Reproduction in Nicaragua and Sweden

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