Gender(ed) violence in neo-authoritarian times

As conservative and neo-authoritarian tendencies in Europe move across political and geo-cultural borders, we bear witness to a renewed attack on gender and sexual rights. This is a challenge to democratic citizenship that demands that we think anew the pervasive and multifaceted violence that structures the social organisation of gendered and sexual lives. How to think about the relationship between the hindering of sexual citizenship and current debates about sexual and gender-based violence in a historical present marked by a growing and revived conservative reaction? How to re-articulate a critical analysis of gender and sexual based violence that also accounts for the violence of gender? How to orient the condemnation of gender and sexual based violence towards a deepening of democracy? Taking Spain as a point of departure, this article examines recent legislative developments and argues for an expansive, albeit differentiated, approach to gender-based violence, in line with citizenship rights. Articulated in intersectional terms, this approach, it is contended, should challenge the intensification of racism and other exclusionary discourses that are gaining traction in Europe, and recognise that violence against those who experience gender and sexuality beyond normative heterosexuality also amounts to gendered forms of violence. It is along these lines that it would be possible to think of a feminist critique of violence in pursuit of a more democratic and just society

Beyond populist borders: embodiment and the people in Laclau's Political Ontology

Taking as a point of departure Ernesto Laclau’s proposition that populism exposes the logic of the political, I explore how articulation and embodiment work in On Populist Reason. I argue that Laclau’s model of meaning making set limits to the understanding of politics that are primarily embodied, such as those involving popular mobilizations, but also nationalist investments in border making. Ultimately, I propose some complementary keys for bridging his theory with questions of embodiment to account for the bodily dimension through which many antagonisms are currently mobilized as well as the uses of the body for making democratic claims

The political aesthetics of vulnerability and the feminist revolt

Contemporary transnational times are characterized by renewed struggles over the meaning of democracy. In this postdemocratic moment, political and cultural practices and popular mobilizations and demands have exceeded, and ultimately questioned, some of representative democracy's core conventions, from the mass feminist demonstrations and strikes, to the rise of populist politics both in Europe and the Americas. Importantly, these struggles attest to the tension between failing democratic institutions and the heightening of increasingly authoritarian and cruel forms of social precarization and exclusion. Against these murderous trends, which this article characterizes as marked by an aesthetics of cruelty, some of these struggles foreground the vulnerable character of life and the embodied dimension of politics and its affective domains. This article focuses on the social movement Ni Una Menos to examine the ways in which vulnerability has been mobilized by some contemporary feminist popular struggles, focusing on the current investment in cultural activism opposing the curtailment of bodily life along gendered, sexualized, and racialized lines. Ultimately, this intervention seeks to ponder the emancipatory potential of a political aesthetics that weaves vulnerability into the gendering of democratic claims

Constitution and Environment in Relation to Sustainable Development

The author explores the development of Argentine environmental law, sanctioned by the Argentine Constitution, and the likely effect it will have on sustainable development

El freno del Congreso : las reformas que la reforma dejó pendientes

Fil: Sabsay, Daniel. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Derecho; Argentina.Pasada ya una década, gran cantidad de los cambios hechos a la Constitución Nacional siguen\nfrenados en el Congreso. Entre las consecuencias de esta dilación se destaca el indeseable\nfortalecimiento del poder presidencial que contradice uno de los objetivos del pacto entre Menem y\nAlfonsín que habilitó la reforma: la limitación de las atribuciones del Poder Ejecutivo. De todas\nmaneras, las modificaciones de la parte dogmática de la ley fundamental han permitido notables\navances en el campo de los derechos humanos

Pressure distribution for the wing of the YAV-8B airplane; with and without pylons

Pressure distribution data have been obtained in flight at four span stations on the wing panel of the YAV-8B airplane. Data obtained for the supercritical profiled wing, with and without pylons installed, ranged from Mach 0.46 to 0.88. The altitude ranged from approximately 20,000 to 40,000 ft and the resultant Reynolds numbers varied from approximately 7.2 million to 28.7 million based on the mean aerodynamic chord. Pressure distribution data and flow visualization results show that the full-scale flight wing performance is compromised because the lower surface cusp region experiences flow separation for some important transonic flight conditions. This condition is aggravated when local shocks occur on the lower surface of the wing (mostly between 20 and 35 percent chord) when the pylons are installed for Mach 0.8 and above. There is evidence that convex fairings, which cover the pylon attachment flanges, cause these local shocks. Pressure coefficients significantly more negative than those for sonic flow also occur farther aft on the lower surface (near 60 percent chord) whether or not the pylons are installed for Mach numbers greater than or equal to 0.8. These negative pressure coefficient peaks and associated local shocks would be expected to cause increasing wave and separation drag at transonic Mach number increases

Imaginarios sexuales de la libertad: performatividad, cuerpos y fronteras

At a time when the meaning of democracy is called into question as a result of neoliberal hegemony, in this article, I examine the politics of sexual citizenship, focusing my attention on the bodily dimension of the struggles for freedom and generic and sexual justice. Since borders, the racialization of bodies and sexual regulation have acquired new meanings in light of this adverse political moment, we need an analysis of how bodies have become the target of new battles, but also a weapon of resistance. By combining issues related to representation and the body,I suggest ways in which the bodily dimension of political action could contribute to the radicalization of democracy

Entrevista a Claudio Sabsay programa Palabra de Campo emisora Radio 10 Argentina

Reflexiona sobre el entorno económico generado por las medidas comerciales impuestas por los países para enfrentar el COVID-19, las tendencias de consumo de la población, el rol del Estado y las ONG y las proyecciones para el futur