What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems

Bibliographic Data

ID2306331
AuthorsWalby (0000-0002-9696-6947, City, University of London, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume71
Issue1
Pages10-27
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00113921221084357
OpenAlexW4220848524
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited47

Femicide is a key global indicator of progress towards gender equality. The occurrence of some but not all five gender dimensions in the indicators of violence used to measure progress towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 5, 11 and 16 are analysed as resulting from the tension between divergent feminist strategies that focus either on women-only or on mainstreaming intersecting inequalities. The tension between universalist and particularist projects underlies the contestations over the construction of these gendered indicators. The analysis develops a conceptualisation of indicators as assets in order to capture the social relations of power involved (rather than as boundary objects), supported by platforms (which can be public as well as corporate) and generated by dynamic epistemic systems (rather than stable epistemological infrastructures

Domestic violence · Epistemology · Femicide · Gender equality · Gender mainstreaming · Inequality · Mainstreaming · Poison control · Political science · Power (physics) · Sociology · Sustainable development · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Human Rights and Development · International Development and Aid · Law