Project description
Daily communicative interventions of Argentinian women for justice
Women in Argentina are subject to high rates of poverty, discrimination and violence. Their struggles are visible through mass demonstrations that have been organised on International Women’s Day and International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Protests have also been held against anti-abortion laws. The EU-funded EmPoWer project will study whether daily communicative interventions for justice generate democratic results in the frame of rising digitalisation. The project will study the impact of the datafication of governance and the incomplete response of social media companies to eliminate online violence against women, aiming to provide actionable information and advanced methodological instruments, and to contribute to reciprocal dialogue with government and institutions.
Objective
Argentinian women constitute 51,1% of the country's population but are unequally affected by poverty, discrimination and violence. Since 2015, they have increasingly protested this state of affairs via collective mobilizations on International Women’s Day and the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, by organizing to raise specific claims, such as the right to abortion or the denunciation of rape. But how does their political agency unfold in the in-between times and spaces when collective protests are not taking place? What communicative practices do they engage then? This project investigates if and how female citizens’ everyday uses of mediated communication for justice produce democratic resolution of their claims in the context of the dataification of governance, the deficient responses of social media companies to spiraling online violence and abuse against women and other challenges to their participation in digital citizenship. The case study is emblematic of citizen-driven technopolitical efforts taking place in the Global South to fix gender inequality and other broken elements of democracy. Through a multi-method design, the study will unpack the ways in which Argentinian female citizens appropriate and interpret mediated communication in everyday technopolitics, and to which democratic effect. Results will: a) provide actionable information for female citizens to refine their day-to-day communicative practices for justice; b) advance methodological tools for monitoring strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats pertaining to their communicative agency in a changing digital environment; c) and contribute potential solutions to omissions/shortcomings in reciprocal listening to their claims from governments, corporations and other accountable organizations. The study will thus inform a future governmentality that takes responsibility for addressing citizens’ claims for justice rather than counter them.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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55511 Jonkoping
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