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TITLE OF PAPER Feminist Mobilization from #NiUnaMenos to International Women Strike: (des)bordering Latin American and Europe.
AUTHORS NAME ALMUDENA CABEZAS-GONZALEZ
AFFILIATION Lecturer at History, Ideas and Political Geography Department
UNIVERSITY / INSTITUTE Universidad Complutense de Madrid, School of Politics and Sociology
MAIL macabeza@ucm.es
ABSTRACT

2018 is the Year of Women. The paper analyze transnational expansion of political contestation articulated between feminist and women mobilizations in Latin America and beyond borders between Latin America and Europe. We choose the informal articulations and networks of the #NiUnaMenos movement, the International Women Strike and the abortion movement to deal with -three interrelated elements: how women organize practices of solidarity against structural oppression denounced as femicide, the policies of austerity or wage inequality (García, 2017; Laudano et al., 2018); the new cycle of mobilization that combine campaigns and transnational coalitions with discursive repertoires of dissemination of the protest (Pates, Logroño and Medina, 2017; Baer, 2016, Bouchard et al., 2010); and, the power and identity politics that emerge from several combination of local struggles and regional borders.
Based on a fieldwork carried out both in social networks and from militant participation in direct actions in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain (2014- 2018), we reflect on the importance of feminist multi-scalar contestation to finally also draw on intersectional feminist theory to examine the stratified axes of oppression and hierarchies evident within and across different women at Latin America and Europe. Racial and class privilege emerge as axes to explain the border regime in Madrid. And the scarce feminist mobilizations in the International Day of Domestic Workers- demonstrations or in the Antiracist movement show the opportunities to develop a powerful strategic sisterhood.

BIOGRAPHY

Lecture at School of Politics and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).
PhD in Political Science (UCM), Postgraduate Student in UNAM (Mexico), UCSB (US) and UDELAR (Uruguay).
Member of Power and Space Research Group and Institute of Feminist Studies
Research areas: Political Geography, Regionalism and Latin American studies,
Feminist geopolitics, women’s movements and transnational social action.

CO-AUTHORS

GABRIELA PINHEIRO MACHADO BROCHNER
Political Science PhD
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
gabpinhe@ucm.es

KEYWORDS Feminist mobilization, Multi-scalar analyses, inter-regionalism, limits to intersectionality
STREAM 4. Along and across Borders: Proper Objects and Intersectionalities
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