Please join us on Tuesday, April 26 at 4 pm EST for a virtual book launch for the newly published book, Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders. 

Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders is the first study of its kind to bring a gender perspective to studies on violence and "illegal markets" in the region. Analyzing the structural problems that create inequality and enable gendered violence in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina, the authors offer a critique of the securitization of borders and the criminalization of human mobility and propose alternatives to reduce violence. Gender and Embodied Geographies in Latin American Borders encourages us to continue to question silence, impunity, the restriction of mobility, the dehumanization of securitization policies, and the institutionalization of gender violence. 

Presenters include Maria Amelia Viteri (UMD Associate Research Professor) and her co-authors Ireri Ceja and Cristina Yepez Arroyo, as well as Lisa Rofel, Montserrat Sagot, and Isabela Ponce. The event is co-sponsored by UMD's Department of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center.

Please register for the event in advance at: https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvdeutrzwqHtbyi6N7j6YysvQwj2IA735W