State ViolenceBooks

Rosa-Linda Fregoso reframes feminist witnessing through Mexico’s contra-feminicide movement, connecting memory, art, legal testimony, migration, and collective responsibility.

Puar examines how selective queer inclusion can accompany racialized exclusion, linking sexuality, nationalism and security through homonationalism.

Stevenson examines care in the Canadian Arctic through the gap between managing a population’s survival and attending to particular lives and relationships.

An interdisciplinary feminist and human-rights collection on feminicide in the Americas, state impunity, transnational economies, and the justice organizing of victims’ relatives.

Veena Das follows violence into everyday relations, asking how voice, acknowledgment and the work of inhabiting a damaged world reshape accounts of agency.