Exposing Atrocity: The Politics of Representation of Feminicide Violence in Mexico, 1994-2021

杀害女性是指出于性别原因杀害妇女、女孩和变性人妇女。自20世纪90年代以来，这种暴力一直是墨西哥的一个长期政治问题。从女性杀戮照片构成了墨西哥社会熟悉这一问题的主要手段这一观察开始，这位博士建议调查摄影新闻在塑造1994年至今关于女性杀戮及其主题的性别话语中的作用。它将探讨媒体照片在重申女性化身体的地位方面所起的作用。此外，对寻求挑战主流报道模式的女权主义艺术作品的审查，将增强对摄影新闻业意识形态偏见的理解。基于我的媒体摄影档案中的这些艺术反表象和星座，这项研究将强调关于女性杀戮的视觉表现的斗争是如何成为与社会和国家死亡政治斗争的关键部分。本论文试图为评估墨西哥女性杀手摄影的形式、意义和功能提供一个新的批评框架。其目的是帮助更充分地理解代表杀害女性的暴力行为的政治，并审查处理杀害女性的暴力行为的更符合道德的形式的潜力。

Feminicide refers to the killing of women, girls, and transgender women for gender-based reasons. Since the 1990s, this violence has been a persistent political problem in Mexico. Beginning with the observation that feminicide photographs have constituted the main means whereby Mexican society becomes familiarised with this problematic, this PhD proposes investigating photojournalism's role in shaping gendered discourses about feminicide and its subjects from 1994 to the present. It will explore the role that press photographs have had in reaffirming feminised bodies' status as 'killable'. Moreover, an examination of feminist artworks seeking to contest dominant modes of coverage will enhance the understanding of photojournalism's ideological biases. Building on both these artistic counter-representation and constellations from my press photographic archive, the study will emphasise how the battle over the visual representation of feminicide is a crucial part of the struggle against social and state necropolitics. The dissertation seeks to provide a new critical framework for assessing the form, meaning, and function of feminicide photography in Mexico. The aim is to contribute to a fuller understanding of the politics of representation of feminicide violence and examine the potential of more ethical forms of addressing feminicide violence.