Description du projet
Des interventions communicatives quotidiennes de femmes argentines pour la justice
En Argentine, les femmes sont soumises à des taux élevés de pauvreté, de discrimination et de violence. Leurs combats sont visibles à travers les manifestations de masse ayant été organisées lors de la Journée internationale de la femme et de la Journée internationale pour l’élimination de la violence à l’égard des femmes. Des protestations se sont également tenues contre les lois contre l’avortement. Le projet EmPoWer, financé par l’UE, cherchera à savoir si les interventions communicatives quotidiennes pour la justice produisent des résultats démocratiques dans le cadre de la numérisation croissante. Le projet étudiera l’impact de la datafication de la gouvernance et la réponse incomplète des entreprises de réseaux sociaux à éradiquer la violence en ligne à l’égard des femmes, dans l’optique de fournir des informations utiles et des instruments méthodologiques avancés, et de contribuer à un dialogue réciproque avec le gouvernement et les institutions.
Objectif
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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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
55511 Jonkoping
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