"Not one less": organizational strategies, spatial dimensions and scope of a movement for the defense of women's rights in Argentina

TOSCANI, MARÍA DE LA PAZ; ROSA, PAULA; VIDOSA, REGINA

Unsettled. Urban routines, temporalities and contestations

Routledge (New York/London, tbc). Taylor & Francis Group

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2018;

The movement #NotOneLess surges in a social context which was characterized because a significant number of "femicides" had considerable social visibility. Specifically, the information running in Argentine news, in 2015, was that every 30 hours, a woman was killed for being a woman. In this context, women begin to give the problem visibility through social networks and call for a massive march on June 3rd, 2015, at Plaza del Congreso (outside the National Congress) in Buenos Aires city and in hundreds of places throughout Argentina. Since this founding landmark, the movement has broken into the social life of the country every June 3rd. The demonstrations continued until the present time, expanding and diversifying their claims and demands such as, for example,adherence to the Women´s International Strike on March 8th, 2018 and to the great march in favour of voluntary interruption of pregnancy, on June 13th of the same year.Within this framework, #NotOneLess kept on expanding and transforming itself with increasing capacity for advocacy, representation, organization and mobilization.Parting from the city - and specifically from the public space- as the place in which the senses and the materiality of the facts are disputed, we analyze how the movement #NotOneLess questions the hegemonic conceptions and practices of gender roles in Argentine society. Specifically, we reflect upon a) the way in which the interpretation frameworks of #NotOneLess are constructed, b) the actors and meanings that shape their identity; c) the relationship between the constitution of that identity and the concrete action of the movement; d) the ways in which public space -both urban and virtual- becomes a political tool for the production of identity and action of the movement; e) the variety of actions that the movement deploys in the different types of public space, among other issues.