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Dialogue: Verónica Gago (NiUnaMenos – Argentina)
October 23, 2017 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join the Social Movements Lab for a dialogue with Verónica Gago via Skype. Verónica is an activist in Ni Una Menos, a movement against femicide and sexual violence that began in Argentina and has spread across Latin America and the world.
The image above is of women in a #NiUnaMenos protest with a banner reading, “The only death we want is the death of the patriarchy” in Santiago, Chile (AFP PHOTO / CLAUDIO REYES).
For more info about Ni Una Menos, please read these brief interviews with Verónica:
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/03/21/the-strike-of-those-who-cant-stop-an-interview-with-veronica-gago-and-natalia-fontana/
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/argentina-ni-una-menos-femicides-women-strike
We will meet on Monday, 10/23, 12:00-1:00pm, in the Social Movements Lab space in Smith Warehouse, Bay 5 (enter at Bay 4 or 6). Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra, the co-directors of the Lab, will facilitate the dialogue.
Verónica Gago is also the author of _Neoliberalism from Below_ (first published in Argentina in 2014, and published by Duke University Press in 2017 (translator, Liz Mason-Deese)). Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. For more info, see: https://www.dukeupress.edu/neoliberalism-from-below
Verónica Gago is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Professor at the Instituto de Alto Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and Assistant Researcher at the National Council of Research (CONICET). Her work is deeply influenced by active participation in the experience of Colectivo Situaciones.
Some of the questions we may discuss with Verónica are those that we formulated together during our last meeting in the lab:
https://sites.fhi.duke.edu/socialmovementslab/projects/
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