The Routledge International Handbook on Femicide and Feminicide

Description

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention. No country is free from femicide/feminicide, which represents the tip of the iceberg in male violence against women and girls. Therefore, it is crucial and timely to better understand how states and their citizens are experiencing and responding to femicide/feminicide globally. Through the work of internationally recognised feminist and grassroots activists, researchers, and academics from around the world, this handbook offers the first in-depth, global examination of the growing social movement to address femicide and feminicide. It includes the current state of knowledge and the prevalence of femicide/feminicide and its characteristics across countries and world regions, as well as the social and legal responses to these killings. The contributions contained here look at the accomplishments of the past four decades, ongoing challenges, and current and future priorities to identify where we need to go from here to prevent femicide/feminicide specifically and male violence against women and girls overall. This transnational, multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral handbook will contribute to research, policy, and practice globally at a time when it is needed the most. It brings a visible, global focus to the growing concern about femicide/feminicide, underscoring the importance of adopting a human rights framework in working towards its prevention, in an increasingly unstable global world for women and girls. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables List of Boxes List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements About the Cover Part 1 Introduction 1 Femicide and Feminicide: A Growing Global Human Rights Movement Part 2 Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives 2 Femi(ni)cide: A Global Archaeology of Knowledge 3 Femicide and the Global Political Economy 4 Understanding Femicide Using a Global Social Ecological Model 5 Femicide and Intersectionality 6 Femicide/Feminicide and Colonialism 7 Femi(ni)cide and Space: Theorising the Socio-Spatial Scripts of Femi(ni)cide 8 Systems of Power and Femicide: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Extremist Violence Part 3 Data and Methodological Considerations 9 Data Sources and Challenges in Addressing Femicide and Feminicide 10 Feminicide Data Activism 11 Femicide/Feminicide Observatories and Watches: Perspectives from Argentina, Colombia, Israel, Spain, Panama, and Poland Part 4 Femicide and Feminicide Across World Regions and Countries 12 Femicide in Afghanistan 13 Femicide in Australia 14 Feminicide in Brazil 15 Femicide in Canada 16 Femicide in Europe 17 Femicide in Georgia 18 Femicide in India 19 Feminicide in Mexico 20 Femicide in Palestinian Society 21 Femicide in the Russian Federation 22 Femicide in South Africa 23 Femicide in Sub-Saharan Africa 24 Femicide in Turkey 25 Femicide in the United Kingdom 26 Femicide in the United States Part 5 Understanding Femicide and Feminicide Subtypes and Contexts 27 Intimate Femicide/Intimate Partner Femicide 28 Population Control and Sex-Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalisation 29 Systemic Sexual Feminicide: Colonial Scars in Bodies and Territories 30 “Honour”-Based Femicide 31 Femigenocide 32 Sex Work Feminicide and the Making of #SayHerName Campaign by SWEAT in South Africa 33 Armed Conflict Femicide 34 Feminicide in the Context of Gang-Related Violence in El Salvador 35 Continuities and Discontinuities Between the Concepts of Feminicide and Transfeminicide in Mexico 36 Femi(ni)cide as War as Femi(ni)cide: Violence and Justice-Seeking Beyond Borders Part 6 Legal Responses to Femicide and Feminicide 37 Femicide/Feminicide and Legislation 38 Femicide and Transnational Law 39 The Latin American Model Protocol for the Investigation of Gender-Related Killings of Women (Femicide/Feminicide): A Partially Achieved Success Story 40 Femicide and the “Heat of Passion” Criminal Doctrine 41 State Accountability and Feminicide Part 7 Social Responses to Femicide and Feminicide 42 Colonial Femicide: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada 43 Witnessing Across Borders: Truth-Telling About Feminicides in México and the MMIWG2S in Canada and the US 44 North American Necropolitics and Gender: On Black Lives Matter and Black Femicide 45 Femicide, Digital Activism, and the #NiUnaMenos Movement in Argentina 46 Dissident Memories: Feminicide, Memorialisation, and the Fight Against State Cruelty Part 8 Where to Go from Here in Research, Policy, and Practice 47 Latin American Standardisation of Data on Feminicide 48 Human-Centred Computing and Feminicide Counterdata Production 49 Male Perpetrators’ Accounts of Intimate Femicide: A Global Systematic Review 50 Changing Media Representations of Femicide as Primary Prevention Index