Femicide Violence: An Approach from a Feminist Geography

Abstract

This work approaches femicide violence as a social process rooted in the patriarchy and the savage capitalism that belittle, make invisible, and attack women. We identified the connection between the legal system and social contest. From critical feminist geography to the possibility of change and commitment to transform unjust conditions, it poses gendered space as an overly complicated social production. Here we accurately see how the feminist movement, made up of activists, groups, and families of women victims of violence, including the feminist academy and diverse feminist strands present in the political sphere, has promoted changes at the legal level. Nevertheless, these transformations have unleashed resistance in conservative groups. An empirical study based on justice procurement and Justice administration was developed during the National Censuses of 2018. Based on these data, national maps were prepared by state entities that allow accounting for resistance to classifying crimes against women as femicides. We contribute to the theoretical framework based on the methodological triad constitutive of space. We refer to creating spaces free of violence, the complexity that it entails, and the resistance that must be overcome through the feminist movement and the transformation of legal frameworks.