Making Transnational Research Connexions: The Laboratory of Anthropology of Justice and Violence (LAJUVI/CIESAS) Mexico City

The objective of this event is to have a conversation with researchers linked to the Laboratory for the Anthropology of Violence and Justice (LAJUVI) of CIESAS who are developing a unique initiative aimed at facilitating socio-anthropological and technological tools for the collection, gathering and analysis of vital information on human rights violations as well as the current social mobilization to claim justice and memorializing the damage. In addition, the professors and research team associated with LAJUVI facilitate different processes of collaboration with organizations of family members who have been victims of enforced disappearance and grassroots initiatives that pursue by legal mechanism the state recognition of the abuses committed against them.

Natalia De Marinis is a research professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), CDMX. D. in Anthropology from CIESAS. Her lines of research are located within the debates of political and legal anthropology, on topics such as violence in indigenous regions, forced displacement, gender violence, insecurity, State, emotions, among others.

Dolores Figueroa Romero is a researcher of SECIHTI (Secretariat for Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation) assigned to CIESAS. Her areas of specialization include the analysis of formative and political processes of organized indigenous women in Nicaragua and Mexico; the production of knowledge and accompaniment of experiences of documentation of structural and feminicidal violence against indigenous women in Mexico and Canada.