This thesis carries out a discourse analysis on three popular newspapers in Mexico who reported on feminist protests in response to the feminicides of Ingrid Escamilla and Fátima Cecilia in...Show moreThis thesis carries out a discourse analysis on three popular newspapers in Mexico who reported on feminist protests in response to the feminicides of Ingrid Escamilla and Fátima Cecilia in February 2020. The research question aims to answer how newspaper writing reproduces structures of silence surrounding feminicide which prevents challenges to established structures of power. Using Fairclough’s method of discourse analysis, the thesis scrutinizes seven newspaper articles on the basis of two hypotheses. Hypothesis One postulates that news coverage focuses on vandalism rather than on feminicide, and hypothesis Two posits that the articles fail to link to the larger societal context and do not discuss the role of gendered violence in Mexico. The analysis concludes that the discursive practices of the newspapers represent a continuation of social practices of the past which support and reproduce structures of silence that prevent a resolution of the feminicide epidemic in Mexico.Show less
