Recorded November 17, 2021
Below is the original description of the event.
¡No son 30 pesos, son 30 años! Social Movements in Latin America is a series of conversations that will map out the cycle of protests that have occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean in the past two decades. In this series, we seek to reflect on social explosions and mobilizations – in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, and Paraguay – without limiting ourselves by looking only at the present or invisibilizing the patience and daily commitment of those who fight for dignified lives free from racism and sexism. We also want to highlight local histories of struggle, as well as solidarity networks that have articulated and sustained these mobilizations. The conversations will revolve around the following questions: 1) What pillars of liberal democracies and/or autocratic governments are being criticized and destroyed, and what forms of government and sovereignty have been proposed and created? 2) Does the current economic crisis in the region, which has deepened during the Covid-19 pandemic, put neoliberal legitimacy in crisis? 3) Beyond the body of the constitution, what constitutional ideas or actions are being proposed and carried out? 4) How can we think in other ways about geopolitics, traversing the history of old and new empires, and draw other geographies for the future?
In this first event, Francia Márquez, Verónica Gago, and Lucía Cavallero speak in conversation with Tianna Paschell and Elena Schneider.
Speakers:
Lucía Cavallero is a sociologist and researcher at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and a member of the feminist collective Ni Una Menos. Her research focuses on feminist economies, and in particular debt and gender.
Verónica Gago is a political scientist at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and is Professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She is a member of Ni Una Menos, and researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONICET).
Francia Márquez is an Afro-Colombian human rights and environmental activist from Colombia who is now a presidential candidate in that country. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2018 for her work to stop illegal gold mining in her community.
Tianna Paschel is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at UC Berkeley. She is interested in the intersection of racial ideology, politics, and globalization in Latin America.
Elena Schneider is an Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on Cuba and the Caribbean, comparative colonialism and slavery, and the Black Atlantic.