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CALL FOR PAPERS NOMADIAS MAGAZINE No. 33 2024.

Special issue sex/dissident: 25 years since the decriminalization of sodomy in Chile, and 51 years since the first homosexual protest.

NOMADÍAS CUIR/QUEER/KUIR. A political/sexual dissident speech to think about the south-south.

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Social articulation of women: organizational responses for urban development in a feminist key

Authors

  • Valentina Saavedra Meléndez Académica del Instituto de la Vivienda de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Doctoranda de Geografía de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile y directora de Vértice Urbano
  • Geanina Zagal Ehrenfeld Doctoranda de Geografía por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, y cofundadora de Ciudad Feminista
  • Maritza Villalobos Morales Coordinadora Urbana en el programa de recuperación de barrios “Quiero mi Barrio”, Magíster © en Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile

Abstract

The crisis experienced in Chile in recent years and the violence in the public space have alerted women and feminists about the use of space in the city. This article reviews experiences and strategies of feminist organizations in Chile that work for cities to be thought from a gender perspective, between October 2019 and 2020. The objective is to analyze the role and functioning of social articulation in the construction of cities with a gender perspective. of genre. For which, it delves into four territorial and virtual experiences, their impact, results and call, in the context of the social revolt, confinement and start of the constituent process. The results highlight the role of the horizontal organization and the work of open self-education as the basis for the articulation of women by cities with a gender perspective, accounting for a movement in gestation with potential for change.

Keywords:

feminist city, urban development, social articulation of women, pandemic, crisis