Topic

Feminicide is broadly defined as the gender-related killing of women and girls. Despite the increased efforts to document and measure feminicide, official data remain incomplete, inaccurate, or inexplicable. Angered at such paucity, citizens worldwide are using digital tools and platforms to account for missing data or to counter existing feminicide tallies. In this talk, I will present a creative methodology for investigating digitally mediated citizen data practices against feminicide in Mexico. Based on a relational accountability approach, which builds on ethnomethodology, feminist autoethnography, and critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA), I will examine the discursive potency of five digital interfaces that document feminicide in Mexico: the digital maps Yo Te Nombro and Ellas Tienen Nombre, the digital memorial Ecos del Desierto, the Instagram account No Estamos Todas, and the multi-media project La Muerte Sale por el Oriente. In the main empirical findings, I demonstrate that, rather than counting or objectively enumerating feminicide, these interfaces recount the killing of women and girls. As a result, in the shift from data sets to data stories, digitally mediated citizen data practices recounting feminicide are relational and situated in affective memories and embodied landscapes.

About the speaker

Saide Mobayed Vega is a qualitative sociologist interested in the intersections between digital technologies, digital media, data, human rights, and gender-based violence. She is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. In her PhD dissertation, Saide provides a theoretical and methodological study to assess the multiplicity of feminicide data practices with a focus on Mexico. At Cambridge, Saide is also a research assistant for the Imaginaries of Immortality in the Age of AI project at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. She is the co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide. In 2017, Saide co-founded the Femi(ni)cide Watch Platform with the UN Studies Association.

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