Counting feminicide : data feminism in action / Catherine D'Ignazio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Ignazio, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Feminism and science.

Big data--Social aspects.

Big data.

feminism.

Physical Description:

viii, 378 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This book explores the work of activists in the Americas who are documenting feminicide, arguing that feminist activists at the margins have much to teach mainstream data scientists about data ethics: how to work with data ethically amidst extreme and durable structural inequalities"-- Provided by publisher.

"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." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Land acknowledgement

Part I. Data and feminicide. A short genealogy of feminicide and data activism

Official data, missing data, counterdata

Part II. The process of restorative/transformative data science. Resolving

Researching

Recording

Refusing and using data

Part III. Action-reflection. Co-designing for restorative/transformative data science

A toolkit for restorative/transformative data science

Conclusion. Putting data science in its place.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: D'Ignazio, Catherine. Counting feminicide

ISBN:

9780262048873

0262048876

OCLC:

1392164669