The Publicizing of the Femicides
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La publicitación de los feminicidios de madres buscadoras en México
The Publicizing of the Femicides of Searching Mothers in Mexico

Author(s): José Alfredo Zavaleta Betancourt
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Criminology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: mothers; femicides; public problem; actantial system; stories;

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the publicizing of the femicides of searching mothers fromthe perspective of sociology of critique. To this end, it tests an actantial modelof complaints through a digital ethnography based on public texts, with thepurpose of understanding the slow process of configuration of this social problemas a public problem. The work analyzes this type of feminicide, whose executionpattern is related to the field of organized violence, through a strategy focused onthe justifications of the actors involved. In this logic, it reconstructs the storiesand narratives of the political and social actors involved in the process, describesrelationships between experts and victims in the complaint and access to justice,and provides elements for understanding the meaning that social and politicalactors give to their experiences of this borderline social problem. The article closeswith some considerations about the challenges in researching the structural effectsof this type of violence in the field of social sciences and multi-localized publicaction at a national and subnational scale.

  • Issue Year: 16/2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 107-131
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Spanish
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