Lo político y lo material del género en la disputa por el estado: Las “plataformas ciudadanas” femeninas en Santa Cruz durante la crisis política boliviana de 2019
During the political crisis in Bolivia in 2019, the power correlations within the dispute for state power in Bolivia were renewed. In this process, civic fronts, particularly women’s groups organized in the city of Santa Cruz, gained relevance. This contribution offers a materialist and feminist ana...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2025-02-01
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| Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/99256 |
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| Summary: | During the political crisis in Bolivia in 2019, the power correlations within the dispute for state power in Bolivia were renewed. In this process, civic fronts, particularly women’s groups organized in the city of Santa Cruz, gained relevance. This contribution offers a materialist and feminist analysis of the role of ‘citizen platforms,’ with an emphasis on feminine platforms, to investigate the intersections of class and gender in the conservative project of seizing state power. Based on a qualitative study, the places of enunciation, actions, and alliances of these groups are empirically explored. Through interviews with key activists, analysis of the social media channels of these platforms, and journalistic material, the centrality of the construction of the woman-mother from heteropatriarchal and conservative notions as a strategy to support a reactionary project is revealed. Finally, it is argued that the feminization of citizen platforms was instrumentalized by the dominant class in Santa Cruz to expand its political and ideological power, thus gaining legitimacy among the Bolivian population without making substantial changes to the patriarchal and oppressive nature of these political blocs. |
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| ISSN: | 1626-0252 |