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Death marks in the city – contesting the signature of gendered necropolitics in Vitória, Brazil
Igor Martins Medeiros Robaina
Department of Geography, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil
Department of History, Geography and Communication, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Paloma Barcelos Teixeira
Department of Gemology, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil
Jan Simon Hutta
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Geographisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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Short summary
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.
Focusing on the aftermath of the murder of 8-year-old Araceli in Vitória in 1973, the paper...
