Data-Inflected Visions of Feminicide

This article advances the notion of “data-inflected visions” to show how various visual representations may come to be imagined as data, and how doing so opens up different meanings for the political and affective work of data. The visuality of social issues is produced through competing hegemonic and alternative visions, and conventional visualization is not the only format in which data participate in visual contestation. Focusing on Latin American actions to visibilizar feminicide, I propose an encounter with activist-made imagery to elucidate how data participate in alternative representations of the issue. The article contributes both an exploration of the role of data in constructing how feminicide is seen and a novel approach to study data and visuality, to inspire scholars from visual studies and from feminist and critical data and data visualization studies to engage with images beyond conventional graphic representation as sites for the political and affective work of data.