Tag: infrastructures

Data Frames of Feminicide (Suárez Val, 2021)

Data standardization and visualization

| infrastructures, publications, standardization, strategic datafication

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…
Discordant data. Public information about femicide in Uruguay (Suárez Val, 2020)

Data standardization and visualization

| infrastructures, public data, publications, standardization

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…