Framed in the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), DAWN is organising the workshop: “Feminist responses to the fracturing of social contracts in Latin America”.

The aim of this activity is to analyze both the breakdown of the social contract and the fragility of our democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean. We would like to discuss about the responses of the feminist and women’s movements -among others- to the social injustice, as well as, the ways to resist and transform the forces of globalization that are threaten our achievements in terms of rights.

Our usage of the term ‘social contract’ is embedded in the political economy of power and inequality at multiple levels and in varied forms. For DAWN, a social contact is a collective agreement that is built on and imbued with power. The fracturing of existing social contracts can come from many sources: social movements, technological changes, institutional and cultural transformations, and of course economic and ecological pressures. Our reading of recent history uses this open and flexible meaning of social contracts to analyse what is and what ought to be from the perspective of social justice and human rights.

October 24, 13:30 – 17:00
Spanish Cooperation Training Centre in Montevideo (25 de Mayo 520).