The research project that I am working on, and that I will introduce in this Guest Lecture, investigates the everyday communicative practices of women for gender justice in the context of socioeconomic precariousness, digitalized citizenship, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This context has been characteristic of Argentina for the past two years. The project, financed by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship for the period 2020-2023, focuses on the Argentinian case from a qualitative perspective.

Which are those everyday communicative practices? How do they play out in women’s everyday lives? How do they contribute to the democratic resolution of the claims that women raise? Which obstacles do women face, in this sense?

My stated purpose when I designed the project was to contribute to strengthening the micro-technopolitics of women’s civic participation aimed at solving gender inequality and other dysfunctional or broken elements of democracy. At this point it looks like what I will be able to contribute is clarification about what women’s everyday communicative activism is and what it could be depending on significant contextual factors, as well as gender-specific detail about women’s information and communication practices in day-today life. I will also be making an empirically grounded call for a politics of listening as a responsibility of governance structures, both state structures and private structures.