(Re)construction | The need and desire to be connected (Rita Segato)
Channel: medico international
Date: 2021-04-01

On the world situation of patriarchal capitalism

(Note of the organizers concerning the English translation: We are aware that in the course of the live interpretation, partly a wrong pronoun was translated, but unfortunately we cannot change this now. We apologize for this.)

Lecture by Rita Segato (Anthropologist, Buenos Aires)

The feminist movements in Latin America are stronger than ever before. Their struggles broaden our understanding of the gender relations that dominate us and base the critique of global capitalism on a critique of global patriarchy that goes even deeper and more far-reaching. They thus not only open up the complexity of the crises that beset us, but also new "projects of connections" (Segato) in which we can overcome them and free ourselves from their embrace.

Rita Laura Segato taught and researched from Brasília for over 30 years and is an excellent scholar of all of Latin America, especially that of the majorities still too often ignored: Women, indigenous people, afrolatin@s. An anthropologist emeritus, she is particularly known for her research on gender issues in indigenous and Latin American communities, as well as for her research on violence against women and the relationship between gender, racism and coloniality. Her publications include "La guerra contra las mujeres" (2016; The War Against Women) and "la critica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos" (2015; Critique of Coloniality in Eight Essays). She is one of the most important feminist intellectuals in Latin America.

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The (Re)Construction of the World. Aid. Solidarity. Politics.

A conference not only on the miserable state of the world, but also and above all on the possibilities of its reconstruction into a place that will finally be worth inhabiting. In lectures and forums, the aim is to determine the relationship between aid, solidarity and politics from the promise we made to ourselves in the Declaration of Human Rights: The promise of a global and social order in which the rights granted to us all would be fully realized.

The online conference (February 12th until February 14th, 2021) was organized by medico international e. V. in cooperation with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, International Institute of Political Murder and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

www.medico.de/en/reconstruction