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Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the
pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of
Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and
migration out of Guatemala—and how the United States is
implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search
for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina
Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in
"postconflict" countries where violence never ended. Through this
father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied,
Textures of Terror offers a deeper understanding of US policies in
Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Sanford offers
an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan
criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality,
patriarchy, and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who
have suffered at the hands of strangers, intimate partners, and the
security forces, this work reveals the deeply gendered nature of
power and violence in Guatemala.
Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of
women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into
sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only
occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during
peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women
should be understood as a systemic problem - one for which the
state must be held accountable. The twelve essays in Gender
Violence in Peace and War present a continuum of cases where the
state enables violence against women - from state-sponsored torture
to lax prosecution of sexual assault. Some contributors uncover
buried histories of state violence against women throughout the
twentieth century, in locations as diverse as Ireland, Indonesia,
and Guatemala. Others spotlight ongoing struggles to define the
state's role in preventing gendered violence, from domestic abuse
policies in the Russian Federation to anti-trafficking laws in the
United States. Bringing together cutting-edge research from
political science, history, gender studies, anthropology, and legal
studies, this collection offers a comparative analysis of how the
state facilitates, legitimates, and perpetuates gender violence
worldwide. The contributors also offer vital insights into how
states might adequately protect women's rights in peacetime, as
well as how to intervene when a state declares war on its female
citizens.
"With this book, anthropology takes its place in the world:
breaking innovative ground, creating new sensibilities, offering
academic inspiration to a crisis."--Carolyn Nordstrom, professor of
anthropology, University of Notre Dame "Engaged Observer includes
rich ethnographic insights into the personal and social aspects of
suffering and represents a significant contribution to debates on
anthropological ethics and the place of advocacy in
scholarship."--Richard A. Wilson, author of The Politics of Truth
and Reconciliation in South Africa "This engaging and compelling
volume uses a wide range of case studies to suggest ways that
anthropologists and other types of observers can be politically,
emotionally, and personally engaged with the work they carry
out."--Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,
University of Oregon Anthropology has long been associated with an
ethos of "engagement." The field's core methods and practices
involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and
their study participants, giving major research topics in the field
a distinctively human face. Can research findings be authentic and
objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the
participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome? In
Engaged Observer, Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani bring
together an international array of scholars who have been embedded
in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the
world to reflect the role and responsibility of anthropological
inquiry. They explore issues of truth and objectivity, the role of
the academic, the politics of memory, and the impact of race,
gender, and social position on the research process. Through
ethnographic case studies, they offer models for conducting engaged
research and illustrate the contradictions and challenges of doing
so. Victoria Sanford is an associate professor of anthropology at
Lehman College, City University of New York. Asale Angel-Ajani is
and assistant professor in the Gallatin School at New York
University.
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