International Graduate School: Debates and perspectives on violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Coordination: Rosa Aurora Iza Remache

Date and time: July 17th, from 14 PM to 16 PM

Workshop Description: Violence against Indigenous women is a deeply concerning issue. Indigenous women are constantly at risk, victims of abuse, discrimination, and violence, largely due to poverty and illiteracy. Furthermore, Indigenous women face high levels of physical, economic, sexual, and psychological violence in various spheres, a phenomenon that remains largely unrecognized.

Coordination: Alexandra Agudelo

Date and time: July 18th, from 8 PM to 10 PM

Workshop Description: The workshop "Juvenicide in Latin America and the Caribbean, analytical keys from the Fobopolitical perspective " is a space to address juvenicide as a phenomenon that permeates the reality of young people as a systematic and progressive use of fear that stems from contemporary forms of pseudo-democracies, religious neo-conservatism, far-right movements, populism, and dictatorships that instill in young people an updated imaginary of a public enemy and combat it through extreme criminalization, hyper-consumption, self-exploitation, and involvement in multiple forms of militarization and violence.

Coordination: Johana Patiño

Date and time: July 18th, from 10.15 PM to 12.15 PM

Workshop Description: Understanding structural violence against women in a situated and transformative way involves, among other things, problematizing the use of femicide as a policy that exploits and manages the systematic and violent deaths of women to generate effective forms of control based on fear over women's bodies, emotions, decisions, relationships, and practices, especially those of the most marginalized women. Such an understanding requires, on the one hand, a review and questioning of the structural and contextual conditions that make its existence possible in different territories, and on the other hand, a confrontation of institutionalized knowledge that generally explains it from a universal perspective, without considering women's experiences, voices, and knowledge. Likewise, this transformative understanding requires mapping and narrating the wounds and ruptures left by femicide at the personal, family, community, and institutional levels; but it also requires identifying and strengthening the senses and practices of re-existence and collective action that women and society in general develop to confront this practice of death. Therefore, this workshop is designed as a meeting of knowledge, experiences, and practices among individuals or groups interested in identifying the structure and framework of femicide, its instructions as necrophobic politics that needs to be denounced and deconstructed to make possible a just and dignified life for women and society in general. 

Coordination: Alfonso Torres

Date and time: July 18th, from 13 PM to 15 PM

Workshop Description: Broadly speaking, many social movements arise as resistance to different types of material and symbolic violence. In countries like Colombia, where an armed conflict of more than half a century has also been ongoing, all of the country's social movements are affected by this, leading them to develop strategies for protection, resistance, and alternatives to these processes of systematic violence, even giving rise to peace movements. Through an examination of four social movements (Indigenous, women's, urban popular, and peace), a brief characterization of each movement is presented, highlighting its impact on violence and some of the strategies developed by each regarding peacebuilding.