Feminicide
Unravelling the State's Data Infrastructures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2371192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saide Mobayed Vega (0000-0003-2711-7674, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1289-1311 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08969205241262416 |
| OpenAlex | W4401256039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
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 and techniques enacting feminicide as data. I propose the concept of 'permeability device' to showcase how power unevenly accrues through the different methods and mediums by which information is documented and transferred across data infrastructures. By opening feminicide data in their everyday multiplicity, I demonstrate how the unequal distribution of power becomes evident in the lack of gender perspective in crime investigations aggravated by public patriarchy, the challenges of processing information incited by the scarcity of resources resulting in data debris and the affective resonance experienced by public servants exposed to gruesome content. In the discussion, I point to precarity as a condition that cuts through the State's infrastructures enacting feminicide as data
Aesthetics · Data science · Economics · Market economy · Political science · Precarity · Public relations · Scarcity · Sociology · Typology · Computer Science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Femicide
Theorizing patriarchy
Violencia contra mujeres sobre el difícil diálogo entre cifras y acciones de gobierno
The Seductions of Quantification
Data Feminism
Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure
Studies in ethnomethodology
Toward Information Infrastructure Studies
The Routledge International Handbook of Femicide and Feminicide
Terrorizing Women
Sorting Things Out
Feminicidio sexual sistémico
Friction
Introduction
The Speculum of Ignorance
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
Precarity Unbound
Meeting at the edge of fear
After Method
Contingency, hegemony, universality
What we talk about when we talk data
The wrong bin bag
Matters of care in technoscience
Living a Feminist Life
This is Not a Boundary Object
Experiments in Context and Contexting
The Body Multiple
Situated Knowledges
Querying feminicide data in Mexico
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems
Identifying femicide locally and globally
A World of Standards but not a Standard World
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |