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

“杀害女性”指的是基于性别原因杀害妇女、女孩和变性妇女。自20世纪90年代以来，这种暴力一直是墨西哥一个持久的政治问题。从观察到杀害女性的照片构成了墨西哥社会熟悉这一问题的主要手段开始，这位博士建议调查新闻摄影在1994年至今塑造关于杀害女性及其主题的性别话语中的作用。它将探讨新闻照片在重申女性身体“可杀”地位方面所扮演的角色。此外，对试图挑战主流报道模式的女权主义艺术作品的考察，将增强对新闻摄影意识形态偏见的理解。基于这些艺术上的反代表性和我的新闻摄影档案中的星座，这项研究将强调，对杀害女性的视觉表现的斗争是反对社会和国家死亡政治斗争的关键部分。本文旨在提供一个新的关键框架，以评估形式，意义和功能的女性杀害摄影在墨西哥。其目的是促进更充分地了解杀害女性暴力的代表性政治，并审查处理杀害女性暴力的更合乎道德的形式的潜力。

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.