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How have women in Peru used cultural contestations to challenge dominant discourses? Cultural forms of protest, or 'cultural contestations', have long been crucial in allowing marginalised groups, particularly women, to provide alternative and oppositional narratives. My project looks at how cultural contestations have been used by women in Peru; comparing how cultural actors, activists, mainstream media, and the state construct narratives in relation to sexuality, the body, motherhood, and sexual violence.
Culture, such as writing, art and performance, plays a part during periods of mobilisation, but also during times of abeyance. While NGO-based activism that pursues state-centred goals has an important role to play, it is also crucial to look at contestations that function on the level of culture when challenging cultural norms. In this way we can see how women can use culture to amplify their voices in their full diversity.
Awards/Grants/Scholarships/Funding
London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) studentship
Conference papers and presentations
‘Poner la cuerpa’: The Body as a Site of Reproductive Rights Activism in Peru – at Cultural Politics of Reproduction in Latin America conference, 14th-15th January 2021
Conference / event organisation
ANDINXS: Addressing Contemporary Politics and Gender in the Andes (workshop co-organised with Dr Rebecca Irons, 28th February 2020)
Publications / Research experience
Editorial collective member, Feminist Perspectives blog
Teaching
2019-20 PGTA, History and Politics of Latin America
Media appearances and mentions
Quoted inter alia in Guardian article on ‘A Rapist in Your Path’ 3rd February 2020
Memberships
SLAS
Other
Student Coordinator, Gender Studies Network at King’s College London https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/gender-studies-at-kings
