TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Breaking the silence on femicide: how women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence
JO  - British journal of sociology
A1  - Cayli Messina, Baris
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Digital space has provided an important platform for women by enabling them to defy religious and patriarchal values while rendering their demands more visible in the public sphere. By analyzing the stories of 3349 murdered women, consulting 57 activist-published materials, studying 37 protest-focused videos, and using digital ethnography, this article explores Turkish women's struggles against femicide. I propose the emancipatory and democratizing counterpublics as an analytical concept to demonstrate how women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence. To this end, I investigate the struggles of women by studying their use of digital space as a means of breaking the silence on femicide, creating data, disseminating knowledge, and seeking justice. This article highlights the essential role of new media technologies in empowering vulnerable groups through the generation of new forms of knowledge, the formation of collective memory, and the elimination of epistemic injustice in opposition to the ruling authorities. The present study contributes to our knowledge of the sociology of epistemic injustice by demonstrating how digital space plays a limited but critical role in the efforts of activists living under authoritarian regimes to defend their fundamental rights to survive and prevent femicide, which has a devastating impact on the lives of millions of women.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-1315
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12968
ID  - ref1
ER  -