Kurzbeschreibung

The project intends to move from a very concrete problem (structural violence and discrimination against women in an intersectional perspective in Latin America) to a more theoretical level of analysis (theory of State, critical theory and philosophy) as a way to achieve a better understanding of the current power's mechanisms, as well as to think of alternatives for transformation. In this way, the research is interested in approaching the relation between the constitution of racist and sexist modern Nation-State (product of colonialism) and violence as a mechanism of power that operates marginalizing /excluding/ eliminating/ silencing/ discriminating in Latin America. On the one hand, legal systems were an instrumental part in colonization. As colonial legal systems were an instrumental part of the imperial project, European laws were established as the "natural" default for the colonized world. On the other hand, law have been also perceived as a possible tool of social transformation. Feminists movements in Latin American have been pressing State's authorities and achieving some claims in which their formal rights were extended and some international conventions ratified. The challenge and effort of this project is to seriously re-think social emancipation and the role of rights, connecting law, critical theories (decolonial/postcolonial, gender and racial studies) and social sciences.

Projektdetails

Projektart

Dissertation

Fachgruppe

Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Beginn

2016

Ende

2019

Einrichtung

Fachbereich/Zentralinstitut

Rechtswissenschaft

Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich

Human rights under pressure - Ethics, Law and Politics

Projektteam

Leitung

Dr. Juliana Moreira Streva (Post-Doc)

Schlagwörter

Feminisms Movements; Latin America; Emancipation; Claim for rights; Coloniality

Forschende

• Dr. Juliana Moreira Streva (Post-Doc)

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