Everyday life, gender (in)justice and the communicational practices of women Argentina : what does it take to get the State's attention?

• In this presentation I will introduce findings from an ongoing research project that investigates the everyday communicative practices of Argentinian women for gender justice in the context of digital(ized) citizenship and the COVID-19 pandemic. Via a qualitative approach and a multi-method design, the project focuses on the micro-(techno?)politics of women’s everyday activism. Drawing on an online survey and semi-structured interviews conducted in 2021, I will discuss how women struggle to get the Argentinian State's attention as they go about their everyday lives and face gender violence and inequality among other dysfunctional or broken elements of democracy that affect them. The notion of a politics of listening (Bickford, 1996; Bassel, 2007) guides my analysis of the perceived efficacy (or lack thereof) of Argentinian women’s communicative strategies to produce the democratic justice they claim vis-à-vis the extent to which listening from government agencies at various levels (national, provincial, municipal) is achieved. From the perspective of gender justice, I understand listening not merely as the discursive acknowledgment of women's claims (or other symbolic actions with a similar aim), but also as the concrete steps taken by government agencies to redress injustice.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

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