Abstract
In the wake of a new wave of feminist movements in Latin America, this chapter seeks to analyze the city as a gendered space where gathering of protesters may propose new forms of organization. In the context of the emergence of conservative forces and democratic disruptions, street movements present forces of resistance to the growing socio-spatial segregation, violence, and discrimination. Thereby street movements claim for a more inclusive urban agenda. This chapter presents a critical gender approach to urban space based on three cases of feminist bottom-up organizations addressing inclusive public space policies in the region. We identify these as examples that dispute the traditional narrative between public and private, proposing new forms of organization of the urban public space based on the notion of the commons.
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Notes
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November 25 was declared by the United Nations in 1999 as the International Day of Nonviolence Against Women.
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As reported in 2016, the municipality had only one shelter for this purpose, with 48 places to welcome victims of domestic violence, even though the city has records of the occurrence of violence against women every 45 min.
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“The rapist is you.”
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The lyrics are followed by a choreography repeated by demonstrators blindfolded in black fabric. “Patriarchy is a judge/ Who judges us because of us being born/And our punishment is the violence you don’t see/It’s femicide/Impunity for my killer/It’s the disappearance/It’s the rape/And it wasn’t my fault, nor where I was, nor how I dressed/You were the rapist/You are the rapist/They are the police/The judges/The state/The President.”
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Available at: https://oig.cepal.org/pt/indicadores/feminicidio-ou-femicidio accessed on 03/20/2020.
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This chapter was written in the first semester of 2020 while the Covid-19 virus erupted worldwide causing a pandemic. As world leaders and sanitary authorities determined lockdown and social isolation measures to flatten the statistical curve of infections and deaths, many feminist collectives pointed to the risks of rising domestic violence. Quarantine is a situation that puts women at risk, because femicides primarily occur at home, according to Observatorio Ahora Que Si Nos Ven in Argentina. Under lockdown measures in March 2020, Argentines took to their balconies, banging pots, hanging green and purple handkerchiefs (that represent abortion rights and Ni Una Menos) to declare their outrage over machista violence. The abrupt change on world public spaces configuration due to quarantine, however, does not eliminate the challenge of seeking for inclusive and more equal spaces. On the contrary, on quarantine times, we face the challenge of rethinking the limits between domestic and public spaces, about the right to the city, and also about new forms of resistance.
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Garcia, C.G., de Oliveira Schuck, E. (2020). Feminist Movements in the City: New Strategies of Commons in Latin American Context. In: Macrì, E., Morea, V., Trimarchi, M. (eds) Cultural Commons and Urban Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54418-8_15
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