Communal Responses to Structural Violence and Dispossession in Cherán, Mexico

Communal Violence and Property Rights

In this examination of communal violence (intrastate armed conflict between two non-state groups), we examine the relationship between one aspect of state institutional strength—property rights protection (PRP) – and inequality between social groups. Using a contest success function model, we build in an assumption that increasing PRP reduces the effectiveness of appropriative effort, generally...

Prenatal exposure to violence and birth weight in Mexico: Selectivity, exposure, and behavioral responses.

This article examines the effect of maternal exposure to local homicides on birth weight. We create a monthly panel by merging all births in Mexico from 2008 to 2010 with homicide data at the municipality level. Findings from fixed-effects models indicate that exposure to homicides in the first trimester of gestation increases infant birth weight and reduces the proportion of low birth weight. ...

Communal violence in Gujarat, India: impact of sexual violence and responsibilities of the health care system.

Situations of chronic conflict across the globe make it imperative to draw attention to its gendered health consequences, particularly the violation of women's reproductive and sexual rights. Since early 2002 in Gujarat, western India, the worst kind of state-sponsored violence against Muslims has been perpetrated, which continues to this day. This paper describes the history of that violence a...

Gender, domestic violence and sickness in Mexico.

A vast social science literature exists devoted to women's health problems in developed nations..* A great deal has also been written about woraen's health in developing nations, but the majority of these investigations have centered around wo~aen's health in association with their reproductive capacities.t Little attention has been paid, however, to women's sub-acute non-life threatening condi...

Femicide and Impunity in Mexico: A context of structural and genearlized violence