Why and how do individuals distance themselves from information about their government's participation in torture other human rights violations? Such citizen (non)response implicitly legitimates thus facilitates the continuation of abusive state actions. Drawing on a model socially organized denial, we explore sociocultural contexts practices mediate individuals’ avoidance, justification, normalization, silencing, outright denial abuses two sites: Argentina during last military dictatorship...

FramingAbortion Rights in Argentina's EncuentrosNacionales de Mujeres Barbara Suttonand Elizabeth Borland A recent television broadcast Argentina showed a remarkable scene that highlights the inroads made by Argentine abortion rights activists last few years.1 Fifty or so legislators across gender and party lines endorsed bill to legalize abortion, with number of them participating 2012 press conference announcing initiative.2 Bright green campaign symbols stood out packed room, most notably...

Politics is about power, contestation, and negotiation. Political discourse relies not only on the persuasiveness of words, rational argumentation, ethical appeals but also deployment images. disputes around abortion are paradigmatic crucial role that images can play. While conservative groups have deployed powerful imagery to present their moral political convictions, rights organizations increasingly intervening in arena with visual artifacts. Places where illegal activists been struggling...

Abstract This article explores the relationship between women's embodiment and political resistance in Argentina during 2002–2003. was a time of socioeconomic crisis, influenced by neoliberal globalization. In this tumultuous context, bodies became embattled sites, shaken crisis but also actively engaged constructing new society forms womanhood. Bodies are important to understanding resistance, as reflected meanings attached poner el cuerpo , common expression contemporary Argentine social...

Argentina recently underwent a period of economic crisis that shook societal foundations. People turned to collective action for social and political change, women were at the forefront many protests. This offers an opportunity study moment “quotidian disruption”—when routine practices ingrained assumptions are threatened—as impetus mobilization. The authors draw on ethnographic observations analyze 44 in-depth interviews with activist in explore their responses quotidian disruption. show...

This article explores the benefits, drawbacks, and potential applications of an interviewing technique based on use cards printed with key research concepts related to body. Informed by a feminist approach sociological interest in human embodiment, this method offered playful way elicit women’s embodied experiences Argentina. The ‘concept cards’ were tangible objects that helped focus interviewees’ attention, without being intimidating. They also useful address painful or sensitive topics...

In recent years, there have been calls in activist spaces to 'queer' abortion rights advocacy, incorporate non-normative notions of gender identity and sexuality into struggles services. Argentina provides an interesting site which examine these developments, since is a longstanding movement for context illegal ground-breaking Gender Identity Law that recognises key trans rights. this paper, we analyse public documents from the movement's main coalition – National Campaign Right Legal, Safe...

Soon after the Supreme Court of United States overturned Roe v. Wade, 1973 decision asserting a constitutional right to abortion, activists in Argentina organized protest front U.S. embassy. The demonstration conveyed need for transnational defense reproductive rights, particularly light outsized role global politics. June 24, 2022 that voided Wade (Dobbs Jackson Women's Health Organization) raises grave concerns about resurgent forms authoritarianism even democracies. Activists have paid...

Cosmetic surgery tourism (CST) is part of the growing trend known as medical tourism. As people in global North travel to less affluent countries modify their bodies through cosmetic surgery, transnational body projects are influenced by both economic "materialities" and traveling cultural "imaginaries." This article presents a content analysis media representations major country sending patient-tourists (the United States) popular receiving (Argentina). The power relations globalization...

Resumen En este ensayo examino cómo distintas zonas de clandestinidad en Argentina han constituido los cuerpos las mujeres formas vitales para el poder soberano y generizado del Estado, tanto momentos dictadura como democracia. A partir tres proyectos investigación centrados distintos temas, me propongo yuxtaponer situaciones aparentemente inconexas: detención desaparición, abortos forzados voluntarios criminalizados. Sobre la base trabajo Giorgio Agamben Penelope Deutscher, exploro que son...

In Argentina, racism is a relatively hidden but entrenched social problem that has undermined democratic citizenship and justice efforts. An analysis of ethno-racial discourses (by the state, in media, self-identity representations) as well political strategies for contesting reveals civil society governmental organizations have extended frameworks already had resonance borrowed approaches from other places, formulated context international dialogue.

In times of war, news media coverage the plight civilian casualties plays a critical role in shaping attitudes regarding war's human costs. We proposed that these may also be surreptitiously influenced by commercial advertisements often accompany this coverage. Specifically, we hypothesized when newspaper articles pertaining to victims war are flanked luxury ads, conservatives, relative liberals, will subsequently exhibit less concern for victims. This proposition was based on notion...

Abortion and Human Rights for Women in Argentina Barbara Sutton (bio) Elizabeth Borland introduction Legal abortion is one among several dimensions of a reproductive justice agenda, yet it continues to be at the center controversy many places around world. While countries such as United States legal but contested,1 Argentina, largely illegal, with few exceptions.2 Despite its criminalization, estimated that up 522,000 abortions take place annually Argentina.3 also leading cause maternal...

The democratization that followed the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983) has been influenced by human rights organizations’ relentless work to bring about truth and justice regarding consequences of state terrorism keep memory period alive. These efforts frame discursive context which violations, including torture, are interpreted contemporary Argentina. Argentine interviewees from across political spectrum condemn but language frames they use narratives surrounding events...