Helena Suárez Val

ORCID: 0000-0002-8748-0734
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Research Areas
  • Political Dynamics in Latin America
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Gender, Violence, Rights in Latin America
  • Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia
  • Law in Society and Culture
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Social Media and Politics
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Data Analysis and Archiving
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • E-Learning and Knowledge Management
  • Criminal Justice and Penology
  • War, Law, and Justice
  • Latin American and Latino Studies
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Feminist Theory and Gender Studies

University of Warwick
2018-2022

Gender-related violence against women and its lethal outcome, feminicide, are a serious problem throughout the world. Official government data on gender feminicide often absent, incomplete, infrequently updated, contested. We draw feminism to situate as missing data. Building qualitative interviews, this study discusses informatic work of ten activist civil society organizations across six countries who combat by producing counterdata. Activists enact alternative epistemological approaches...

10.1016/j.patter.2022.100530 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Patterns 2022-06-16

Data has become a key format for activists to visibilizar (make visible/call attention to) and denounce social issues. Drawing on the concept of “artivism,” we name as data artivism those works that visually intervene in contestation around an issue by mobilizing art craft form resistance method visualize data. In this commentary, share three examples feminicide. Our aim is inspire fields critical visualization studies engage more deeply with find common language artists, advocacy groups...

10.1177/20539517231215356 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Big Data & Society 2023-07-01

El acceso a datos oficiales sobre casos de femicidio en Uruguay no es tarea fácil, y cuando se logra, encuentran discordantes. Tal dificultad tiene serias repercusiones, tanto para la concientización población como el diseño políticas públicas accionar sociedad civil frente al fenómeno. En este trabajo examina importancia las complejidades contar con datos, oficiales, muertes violentas mujeres por razones género. A partir estudios información pública documentos realiza una breve reseña los...

10.17141/mundosplurales.1.2021.3937 article ES Mundos Plurales - Revista Latinoamericana de Políticas y Acción Pública 2020-03-01

Feminicide is the gender-related killing of cisgender and transgender women girls. It reflects patriarchal racialized systems oppression reveals how territories socio-economic landscapes configure everyday violence. In recent decades, many grassroots data production initiatives have emerged with aim monitoring this extreme but invisibilized phenomenon. We bridge scholarship in feminist information geographies feminism to examine ways which space, broadly defined, shapes counterdata...

10.1177/02637758241275961 article EN Environment and Planning D Society and Space 2024-09-05

En los últimos años, activistas feministas en varios países de América Latina han creado mapas digitales feminicidio: las muertes violentas mujeres relacionadas con el género. La intersección del activismo y mapeo ha sido explorada desde la académia por que abordado naturaleza performativa, participativa política mapas, académicas analizado —y promueven— reivindicación Sistemas Información Geográfica (GIS sus siglas inglés) para pensamiento acción feminista. este ensayo, uso caso mapa...

10.46516/inmaterial.v3.48 article ES cc-by-sa INMATERIAL Diseño Arte y Sociedad 2018-06-30

This workshop proposes a space for Latin American academics and activists engaging with data to think critically about the legitimacy power dynamics of knowledge production. Given that most research on data, as well its area application, have focused is informed by Global North, this sets spotlight America places activist academic equal standing. The organisers are an interdisciplinary group scholars activists, women based in North South, across borderlands disciplines, practices,...

10.1145/3491101.3505222 article EN CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts 2022-04-27

Feminicide (or femicide) is a feminist category that designates –and denounces– the gender-related violent deaths of women, adolescents, and girls, especially murders. Especially in Latin America, has provided frame for activists, most recently governments, to gather data about feminicide. This work seeks understand implications how feminicide are structured, sorted, curated, these arrangements guide potential actions. The study advances an approach analysis organisation presentation murders...

10.35643/info.26.1.15 article EN cc-by Informatio 2021-05-30
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