Death marks in the city – contesting the signature of gendered necropolitics in Vitória, Brazil

Robaina, Igor Martins Medeiros; Teixeira, Paloma Barcelos; Hutta, Jan Simon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-275-2025

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Death marks in the city – contesting the signature of gendered necropolitics in Vitória, Brazil

Igor Martins Medeiros Robaina, Paloma Barcelos Teixeira, and Jan Simon Hutta

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Focusing on the aftermath of the murder of 8-year-old Araceli in Vitória in 1973, the paper develops an approach to analysing necropolitical power through obfuscated traces of violence. For this purpose, archival research is combined with an account of recent mobilizations around the toponomy related to the murder. What thus emerges is a nuanced analysis of contested “signatures of power” that are inscribed into urban space.