Binding: Hardcover
Description: Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science. What isn t counted doesn t count. And mainstream institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide the gender - related killing of women and girls including cisgender and transgender women. Against this failure Counting Feminicide brings to the fore the work of data activists across the Americas who are documenting such murders and challenging the reigning logic of data science by centering care memory and justice in their work. Drawing on Data Against Feminicide a large - scale collaborative research project Catherine D Ignazio describes the creative intellectual and emotional labor of feminicide data activists who are at the forefront of a data ethics that rigorously and consistently takes power and people into account. Individuals researchers and journalists these data activists scour news sources to assemble spreadsheets and databases of women killed by gender - related violence then circulate those data in a variety of creative and political forms. Their work reveals the potential of restorative/transformative data science the use of systematic information to first heal communities from the violence and trauma produced by structural inequality and second envision and work toward the world in which such violence has been eliminated. Specifically D Ignazio explores the possibilities and limitations of counting and quantification reducing complex social phenomena to convenient sortable aggregable forms when the goal is nothing short of the elimination of gender - related violence. Counting Feminicide showcases the incredible power of data feminism in practice in which each murdered woman or girl counts and in being counted joins a collective demand for the restoration of rights and a transformation of the gendered order of the world.
Title: Counting Feminicide Data Feminism In Action
Author(s): D'ignazio Catherine
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262048873
Pages: 392 Pages, 40 Color Illus., 8 Black And White Illus.
Publication Date: 4/30/2024
Category: Society & Culture: General