Project: “Social Representations of Women on Feminicide in the City of Puebla”

 Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig

The objective of this investigation is to know the social representations that women of the city of Puebla have constructed on feminicide and what impact it has on them. Through the procedural approach of the social representations theory, we seek to know what are the elements involved in the construction of these representations, what meanings they give to feminicide, what reactions it causes and if this situation has modified their daily practices.

The main investigations on feminicide have been developed from victimology, criminology, anthropology, sociology and have focused mainly on the victims and the institutional dimension. However, little has been asked about what impacts feminicide generates on women and how it is understood, especially when the cases registered in Mexico have increased in recent years and Puebla is one of the states in which this trend is observed.