Die FMD-Arbeitsgruppe strebt eine Institutionalisierung der Forschung in den Bereichen Gender Studies, Feminismen, Sexualität, Dekolonialität und marxistische Ansätze an, die in der süd- und mittelamerikanischen Diasporas in der Schweiz durchgeführt wird. Zudem liegt unser Schwerpunkt auf interdisziplinären und intersektoralen Diskussionen mit Kolleg:innen in Lateinamerika/Abya Yala/Patria Grande und Portugal/Spanien. Die Arbeitsgruppe versteht sich als Plattform für den Wissensaustausch und Koalitionsbildung zwischen zeitgenössischen sozialen Bewegungen und ihren populär-revolutionären Gegenstücken, besonders denjenigen, die mit kritischen Perspektiven und Methodologien arbeiten.

AG-Mitglieder:

Gina Wirz-Suárez (PhD researcher, UNIL/IHEID) is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology  at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She holds a Master’s in Social Sciences from the University of Lausanne. She also completed a bachelor's in Political Science and a Master's in Gender Studies at the National University of Colombia. Currently, she works as a Graduate Assistant at the University of Lausanne for the course Clinic Gender and Human Rights. She is interested in social movements, transnational participation, gender issues and forced migration experiences.

Alejandra Del Rocio Bello Urego (Post-doctoral researcher, UNIL) est politologue et a récemment rejoint le Centre en études genre de l'UNIL en tant que chercheuse postdoctoral boursière de la confédération sur le projet "Actions constitutives de la souveraineté : analyse intersectionnelle de l’exercice du pouvoir souverain dans les Nouvelles formes de la guerre, observées dans les territoires de l’État colombien." Elle s'intéresse actuellement à la question du questionnement des mécanismes de fixation du pouvoir, que ce soit à travers son institutionnalisation dans l’Etat ou à travers son épidémisation dans la construction de corps gouvernables. Elle s’intéresse en particulier à l’analyse de la relation de continuum entre ces deux phénomènes. Ce questionnement dépasse les limites disciplinaires en interrogeant le processus de continuum entre les logiques du pouvoir qui se manifeste dans les relations Etat-Corps. Ainsi, bien que son travail trouve sa genèse dans la théorie et la science politique, il s’inscrit dans l’intersection de trois champs transdisciplinaires :  études culturelles, études de genre-féministes et bioéthique. Ce questionnement est abordé en déployant des outils méthodologiques, épistémologiques et conceptuels des perspectives féministes décoloniales et des modes des pensées anticoloniaux. 

Larissa Da Silva Araujo (PhD researcher, IHEID) is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies as well as a Teaching Assistant in the Interdisciplinary Masters at this same institution. She is also an activist of the GRITO Collective, based in Geneva. Larissa is a Brazilian researcher-activist, with a passion for integrating academia and activism. She has experience within social movements and with research about human rights, feminist economics, economic anthropology, and indigenous peoples. Her dissertation focuses on the praxis of life alternatives among indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Andes, interrogating how the idea of good living (sumak kawsay) stated in the Ecuadorian Constitution emerges in practices of daily life.

Virginia Leon Torrez (PhD researcher, UNIBE) has a Master of Arts in Spanish Linguistics/ Literature and Latin American Studies from the University of Bern. Since September 2018 she is a PhD student at the University of Bern, Institute of Spanish Language and Literatures. As a member of the doctorate program in Global Studies at the Graduate School of the Humanities, she is working on her PhD project Narratives of Violence(s) Against Women: Wasted Bodies and Deaths that (Don’t) Matter in the Contemporary Literature in Peru and Argentina. She also studied Communication at the University of Buenos Aires, and since 2012 she holds a Licenciate in Communication Sciences with a focus on journalism from the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa.

Clara Guardado (PhD researcher, UZH) is Salvadoran Ph.D candidate at the University of Zurich in Cultural Analysis and Anthropology. She studied her Master at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies IHEID in Anthropology and Sociology. Clara Guardado pursued prior her bachelor in Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de El Salvador. Currently, she's working  on transitional justice of postwar Central America as part of the SNF project Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives and part of the Latin American Studies Network.