Lateinamerika-Studien (LASt)
Lateinamerika-Studien
Black Women Occupy Spaces of Power: The Case of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro01.07.2024 I 18:00 Uhr
25. Juni 2024, von LASt-Team
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Am 01.07.2024 um 18 Uhr wird Lívia De Souza Lima (Universität Bielefeld) den Vortrag "Black Women Occupy Spaces of Power: The Case of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro" halten. Der Vortrag wird im Hörsaal Phil E ("Philosophenturm", Von-Melle-Park 6) stattfinden. Vortragssprache ist englisch, die Diskussion kann aber mehrsprachig geführt werden.
Black Women Occupy Spaces of Power: The Case of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro
This study addresses the general theme of the political participation of Black women, using the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro (ALERJ) as a case study. From a normative, theoretical, and analytical perspective of radical democracy, this research aims to analyze the construction of the political imaginaries of Black women within the left-wing political spectrum. It explores how their articulatory practices contribute to the formation of a political exercise of resistance against the exclusionary logic of institutional politics.Focusing on the central demand that spaces of power should be occupied by Black women, I investigate the meanings produced by this central demand, analyzing the discursive articulations of Black women and the political imaginaries that emerge from it. By examining these imaginaries, I also analyze the antagonistic discourses identified by Black women to understand the structures of domination and power and their manifestations that need to be deconstructed and disrupted. This analysis aims to pave the way for the emergence of an imaginary of a plural and emancipatory political representation.
Lívia De Souza Lima is a PhD candidate in InterAmerican Studies at Universität Bielefeld and a fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Her main research focus lies in the intersection of gender and political representation, in which she works with Black and decolonial feminist perspectives.
