Cidem’s femicide archive and the process of gendered legal change in Bolivia

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ID6015363
AuthorsXandra Miguel-Lorenzo (0000-0002-5740-9283, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume4
Issue1
Pages23-45
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Legal Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1758-9584 • E-ISSN: 1758-9576
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/jla.2020.070702
OpenAlexW3048889297
LanguageEN
References cited16

This article analyses a spectacle, a wrestling match, that brings out the problem of violence against women and the role of activist organisations such as the Centro de Información y Desarrollo de la Mujer (CIDEM) to raise awareness among people and to influence the Bolivian state to change the gender of the law. In effect, it considers CIDEM’s vigilant role, by visualising cases of femicides in partnership with the press, is translated in wrestling matches. The article considers one such wrestling match I witnessed in El Alto, Bolivia, and argues that CIDEM’s vigilant role extends to overlooking and complementing the vigilant roles of the state and customary legal systems in El Alto that are unable to prevent femicides: women being killed by men because of their gender

Criminology · Domestic violence · Femicide · Gender violence · General partnership · Poison control · Political science · Sociology · Spectacle · State (computer science · Suicide prevention · Gender Studies · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Medicine · Sex work and related issues

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