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Wednesday, April 8 5:00-6:30 p.m. at Watson Library 3 West

Dr. Natalia Otto, University of Minnesota

Toward a Gendered Law of the Conservation of Violence: Economic Precarity, Gender, and Violence in Brazil's War on Drugs

This study examines how economic precarity, gender, violence and transnational drug economies converge in the lives of incarcerated teenage girls in Brazil involved in violent drug markets. Otto argues that girls’ participation in the cocaine economy exemplifies the gendered “law of conservation of violence” (Bourdiew 1998): a process through which structural precarity, the gender order, and transnational carceral projects intersect to (re)produce violence against women and girls at the global margins.

Presented by KU Sociology
Co-sponsored by KU Law School, KU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, KU Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Center for Global & International Studies