JUSTICIA: A Call for Accountability and Recognition for Femicides in Argentina
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Master's thesis submitted at the Department of Social Anthropology, spring 2025.
By: Natalia Renathe Quiroga Drange
Supervisor: Professor Christine Jacobsen
This thesis investigates how JUSTICIA (justice) is mobilised to challenge ungrievability of femicides in Argentina. The call for accountability and recognition for femicides, challenges the structures from Lagarde`s definition of feminicidio visible, and therefore also challenges ungrievability. This thesis investigates how social, political, and cultural dynamics forms the understanding of JUSTICIA, and the movements mobilisation, particularly in relation to the influences of the dictatorship and President Javier Milei's administration. The impact of Milei’s anti-feminist policies and budget cuts, creates a necessity for Ni Una Menos to unite against these oppressive structures. Which makes internal tensions within the movement more visible, particularly regarding the participation of marginalised voices, such as indigenous, afro-Argentineans, lesbian, and trans women. Overall, this thesis explores Ni Una Menos ongoing fight for JUSTICIA for femicide victims in Argentina, discussed through the framework of gendered necropolitics and an intersectional lens that reveals both external and internal power dynamics intensified by the current political climate.
