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Descripción
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Colaborador
Botto, Mercedes
Pautassi, Laura
Temporal Coverage
2000-2020
Idioma
spa
Extent
295 p.
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Abstract
This thesis seeks to contribute to the field of global governance studies from a critical perspective by analyzing the sexual and reproductive rights (hereinafter SRR) agenda at the regional level, observing the consensus building processes in the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR). The general objective is to examine the dynamics of political consensus building during the period from 2000 to 2020 in the two units of analysis in order to understand the factors that underlie and influence the progress of negotiations that recognize these rights. We seek to understand the extent to which these regional bodies contribute to this construction, for which we propose a study that pays attention to an unconventional agenda and actors, such as the SRR and transnational civil society networks, little explored in the dominant academic studies of International Relations and governance.
SRR are a set of rights that promote the free exercise of people's right to choose a healthy sexual life and to make autonomous reproductive decisions without discrimination orviolence. Although sexuality and reproduction are two different aspects of people's lives, they are related because reproductive rights must take into account the realization of sexuality and gender relations. The analytical use of governance and the critical postulates of feminist theories in International Relations structure the theoretical framework of the thesis, given that the topic is located as a social issue that refers to a historical and global gender inequality, frequently neglected and invisibilized in the margins of the theoretical discussions of the discipline. The proposed theoretical framework allowed us to find that the disputes surrounding this agenda involve elements that transcend the exclusive positions of States and sustain practices of the intersectional system of oppressions. The SRR agenda is an issue that also involves a multiplicity of actors, at different levels of government and scales of discussion, who question different spheres of authority, which reveals a multidirectionality among the ideas and actions that are produced and have repercussions in world politics. Given the magnitude of this object of study at the global level, this thesis proposes an approach at the regional level based on the observation of the dynamics of consensus building between governmental and civil society actors around the SRR agenda in the OAS and MERCOSUR during this period.
The analysis based on the cases of the OAS and MERCOSUR allowed us to verify that the dynamics of political construction exceed the exclusivity of the States, opening the way to the inclusion of relevant and non-conventional actors. In both organizations, despite being notoriously dissimilar, when it comes to political consensus that recognizes SRR, the actors and topics of debate tend to coincide. Moreover, because they have institutional procedures and formulation of contents that have contributed to the construction of consensus on gender issues, however, they notice certain limits when deepening the discussions when discussing SRR, as described in the previous thesis (Ferretto, 2021). For this reason, this research seeks to understand how the SRR agenda is negotiated, which issues achieve consensus, which do not and why, in order to contribute to the knowledge on this social issue, from a novel and dissident framework of international studies.
SRR are a set of rights that promote the free exercise of people's right to choose a healthy sexual life and to make autonomous reproductive decisions without discrimination orviolence. Although sexuality and reproduction are two different aspects of people's lives, they are related because reproductive rights must take into account the realization of sexuality and gender relations. The analytical use of governance and the critical postulates of feminist theories in International Relations structure the theoretical framework of the thesis, given that the topic is located as a social issue that refers to a historical and global gender inequality, frequently neglected and invisibilized in the margins of the theoretical discussions of the discipline. The proposed theoretical framework allowed us to find that the disputes surrounding this agenda involve elements that transcend the exclusive positions of States and sustain practices of the intersectional system of oppressions. The SRR agenda is an issue that also involves a multiplicity of actors, at different levels of government and scales of discussion, who question different spheres of authority, which reveals a multidirectionality among the ideas and actions that are produced and have repercussions in world politics. Given the magnitude of this object of study at the global level, this thesis proposes an approach at the regional level based on the observation of the dynamics of consensus building between governmental and civil society actors around the SRR agenda in the OAS and MERCOSUR during this period.
The analysis based on the cases of the OAS and MERCOSUR allowed us to verify that the dynamics of political construction exceed the exclusivity of the States, opening the way to the inclusion of relevant and non-conventional actors. In both organizations, despite being notoriously dissimilar, when it comes to political consensus that recognizes SRR, the actors and topics of debate tend to coincide. Moreover, because they have institutional procedures and formulation of contents that have contributed to the construction of consensus on gender issues, however, they notice certain limits when deepening the discussions when discussing SRR, as described in the previous thesis (Ferretto, 2021). For this reason, this research seeks to understand how the SRR agenda is negotiated, which issues achieve consensus, which do not and why, in order to contribute to the knowledge on this social issue, from a novel and dissident framework of international studies.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales