Feminicide: Unravelling the State’s Data Infrastructures
Saide Mobayed Vega
Abstract:In this paper, I unravel the socio-materiality of the Mexican State’s data infrastructures measuring feminicide. Based on 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews with experts and dozens of content analyses of secondary sources, I argue that feminicide data are better understood as iteratively multiple rather than singularly factual. That is, the seeming singularity of a woman’s dead body shifts into many as her case is classified differently along the choreographed interactions between people, tools, protocols … Show more
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