This encounter as Latin American researchers and activists aims to dialogue on building historical memory from feminist and queer perspectives. Thus, this roundtable discussion will reflect on ethical concerns from the economy of care with and for grassroots communities and the significance of social research in the contexts of political and social violence. We will focus on the Colombian and Brazilian cases regarding theoretical, methodological, and ethical concerns from Latin American critical viewpoints. Moreover, we want to reflect on the role of social researchers in analyzing the communities’ resistance processes and the reconstruction of the social fabric.
Chairs - PhD researchers in ANSO- Geneva Graduate Institute
Larissa da Silva Araujo
Gina Wirz-Suárez
Panelists
Alejandra Bello Urrego | Postdoctoral researcher, Université de Lausanne
Political scientist. She has recently joined the Center for Gender Studies at UNIL as a postdoctoral researcher in the project "Constitutive actions of sovereignty: an intersectional analysis of the exercise of sovereign power in the new forms of war, observed in the territories of the Colombian State." She is currently interested in questioning the mechanisms of power fixation, either by its institutionalization in the State or by its epidemization in constructing governable bodies. She is particularly interested in analyzing the relationship of continuity between these two phenomena. This questioning goes beyond disciplinary boundaries by interrogating the continuity process between the logics of power manifested in state-body relations. Thus, although her work has its genesis in theory and political science, it is situated at the intersection of three transdisciplinary fields: cultural studies, gender-feminist studies, and bioethics. This questioning is approached by deploying methodological, epistemological, and conceptual tools from decolonial feminist perspectives and anti-colonial modes of thought.
Alanis Bello | PhD Candidate in Education-USP (Brazil) ; Lecturer-NPU (Bogota)
Sociologist and Master in Gender Studies at the National University of Colombia. PhD Candidate in Education at the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil). She teaches at the Faculty of Education of the National Pedagogical University of Colombia and has conducted several research projects with victims of the armed conflict, women deprived of liberty, sex workers and LGBTIQ people. She specializes in feminist pedagogies and memory studies from a gender approach. Her doctoral research addresses the question of the impacts of armed violence in the daily life of schools and the strategies of care and resistance deployed by basic education teachers in these contexts. This work was conducted in the cities of Buenaventura (Colombia) and in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Laura Flórez Castellar | PhD researcher in ANSO ; Geneva Graduate Institute
Artist and anthropologist. PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at IHEID. Between 2019 and 2020, Laura supervised the research team in Buenaventura, Colombia, assessing the impacts of port expansion on the lives of indigenous and black communities, commissioned by the Interethnic Truth Commission of the Colombian Pacific (CIVP). She holds a master’s degree in Social Sciences specializing in Anthropology from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Laura is also an anti-racist activist and national representative of immigrant workers in the Swiss trade union.
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