Descrizione del progetto
Interventi quotidiani di comunicazione delle donne argentine per chiedere giustizia
In Argentina, le donne sono soggette a tassi elevati di povertà, discriminazione e violenza. Le loro lotte sono visibili attraverso le manifestazioni di massa organizzate in occasione della giornata internazionale delle donne e della giornata internazionale per l’eliminazione della violenza contro le donne. Inoltre, sono state organizzate delle proteste contro le leggi antiabortiste. Il progetto EmPoWer, finanziato dall’UE, esaminerà se gli interventi quotidiani di comunicazione per la giustizia generino risultati in termini di democrazia nel quadro della crescente digitalizzazione. Il progetto analizzerà l’impatto della datificazione della governance e la risposta incompleta nell’eliminazione della violenza presente online contro le donne da parte delle imprese che gestiscono i social media, con l’obiettivo di fornire informazioni fruibili e strumenti metodologici avanzati e di contribuire al dialogo reciproco con il governo e le istituzioni.
Obiettivo
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)Coordinatore
55511 Jonkoping
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