Category: Data standardization and visualization
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Latin American standardisation of data on feminicide (Fumega et al, 2023)
This chapter presents the results of a participatory action-research strategy that led to the creation of a feminicide data standard. In response to the lack of homogenisation in data collection of feminicide across the region, ILDA has worked in different contexts and with different partners throughout two iterations of the feminicide data standard project. In…
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Data Frames of Feminicide (Suárez Val, 2021)
Feminicide (or femicide) is a feminist category that designates –and denouncesthe gender-related violent deaths of women, adolescents, and girls, especially murders. Especially in Latin America, the category has provided a frame for feminist activists, and most recently governments, to gather data about feminicide. This work seeks to understand the implications of how feminicide data are…
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Discordant data. Public information about femicide in Uruguay (Suárez Val, 2020)
Accessing official data on cases of femicide is not an easy task in Uruguay, and when accessed, there are discordant data. This issue has serious repercussions, both for the awareness of the population and for the design of public policies and the actions of civil society in the face of the phenomenon. This paper examines…
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Tracking Latin America’s Other Pandemic: Violence Against Women (Fumega, 2020)
Better data on gender-based violence is needed now more than ever. Fumega, S. (2020, abril 13). Tracking Latin America’s Other Pandemic: Violence Against Women. Americas Quarterly. https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/tracking-latin-americas-other-pandemic-violence-against-women/ Enlace externo
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Open data, gender and violence in Latin America (Fumega, 2019)
This article focuses on the project entitled Estandarización de datos de femicidios (Standardisation of Data on Femicide). Firstly, we contextualise the current status of open data in Latin America. We then explain our hypothesis of how standardising data could help us improve data quality and, lastly, we reflect on our study. Standardisation (and the eventual…
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Vibrant Maps (Suárez Val, 2018)
In recent years, feminist activists in various Latin American countries have been creating digital maps of feminicide —the gender-related violent deaths of women. The intersection of activism and mapping has been explored by scholars and activists who have addressed the performative, participatory and political nature of mapping, and by feminist scholars who have analysed and…