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Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin AmericaThe Green Scarf for Abortion Rights: Affective Contagion and Artistic Reinventions of Movement Symbols

Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America: The Green Scarf for Abortion Rights: Affective... [The triangular green scarf is the symbol of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Free and Safe Abortion in Argentina. After being used in grass-roots activism for more than a decade, during 2018, the symbol tainted in green color the massive mobilizations during the first parliamentary debate on abortion legalization and was adopted in several Latin American countries. In this chapter, I analyze this process of symbolic “contagion” in Chile and Argentina considering the role of emotions and affects. The green scarf was key for the creation of “attunement” and intense affective atmospheres in public protest. Also, in both countries, feminist artistic activism reinvented the symbol and took its affective force and significance even further. All in all, this chapter emphasizes the relevance of affects to understand how movement symbols for reproductive rights and justice can spread across national borders and be a crucial catalyst for political action.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin AmericaThe Green Scarf for Abortion Rights: Affective Contagion and Artistic Reinventions of Movement Symbols

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Macón, Cecilia; Solana, Mariela; Vacarezza, Nayla Luz
Vacarezza, Nayla Luz
Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America — Feb 23, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-59368-1
Pages
63 –86
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-59369-8_4
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Abstract

[The triangular green scarf is the symbol of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Free and Safe Abortion in Argentina. After being used in grass-roots activism for more than a decade, during 2018, the symbol tainted in green color the massive mobilizations during the first parliamentary debate on abortion legalization and was adopted in several Latin American countries. In this chapter, I analyze this process of symbolic “contagion” in Chile and Argentina considering the role of emotions and affects. The green scarf was key for the creation of “attunement” and intense affective atmospheres in public protest. Also, in both countries, feminist artistic activism reinvented the symbol and took its affective force and significance even further. All in all, this chapter emphasizes the relevance of affects to understand how movement symbols for reproductive rights and justice can spread across national borders and be a crucial catalyst for political action.]

Published: Feb 23, 2021

Keywords: Abortion; Feminist movement symbols; Green scarf; Affective atmospheres; Symbolic contagion

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