Walls, Wars, and Global Warming: Expanding the Terrain of " Violence Against Women"

• In Event: The Expanding Terrain of Violence Against Women:   Feminist Perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election and Beyond

Abstract

In the wake of the 2016 election, executive level policies were rapidly put into place to build a wall along the entire US-Mexico border, to shift significant funds away from domestic programs and into military budgets, and to reverse the political and scientific progress that had been made to identify and mitigate the sources of global warming and climate change. Employing a feminist, critical, and global lens, this paper highlights some of the adverse gendered consequences of walls, wars and global warming and argues that it is essential to expand the conceptual terrain of “violence against women” to encourage greater analytic attention on the contemporary political and economic forces that (re)produce gender, race, and class divides, as well as the harm and violence that is associated with inequalities in the domestic and global context. The paper considers the implications of this expanded analytic terrain for future criminological research and for strategies of social change.

Author

• Nancy A. Wonders, Northern Arizona University