Abortion, Nationhood and Subjectivity - An Investigation into the Disruptive Potential of Contemporary Feminist Activism in Argentina

我的研究调查了阿根廷当代堕胎活动人士。自2015年以来，阿根廷女权主义在全球的影响力越来越大，而阿根廷于2020年12月通过的堕胎合法化，预计将对整个拉丁美洲的生殖权利问题产生开创性的影响。然而，在实践中，堕胎仍然很复杂，并且取决于孕妇的阶级、种族、地点和相应的医疗保健服务。我的项目探讨了米索前列醇（一种具有流产副作用的处方药）的日益普及，以及互联网作为非政治空间的使用，如何使新形式的草根堕胎活动成为确保堕胎渠道的关键。这种激进主义建立在骄傲和另类家庭的酷儿概念上，由激进主义学者带头，他们明确地旨在重新定位堕胎的人，使其有能力采取政治行动。到目前为止，这种激进主义的一面几乎没有引起人们的注意。我的跨学科研究试图填补这一空白。我将研究堕胎活动家如何将堕胎者定位为政治主体。我将分析团体的网络形象，他们接触更多受众的主要方式，并采访活动人士。通过情感理论将越轨的社会力量概念化，我将调查堕胎行动主义的情感和未言说的维度。这将促进对当代女权主义运动的说服力的更好理解。

My research investigates contemporary abortion activismin Argentina. Since 2015, Argentine feminism has hadgrowing global influence, and the recent legalisation ofabortion in Argentina, passed in December 2020, isexpected to have a trailblazing impact on reproductiverights issues across Latin America. In practice, however,abortion access will remain complicated and dependent onpregnant people's class, race, location and correspondinghealth care access. My project interrogates how theincreasing availability of misoprostol, a prescription drugwith abortive side-effects, and the use of the internet as apolitical space, have enabled new forms of grassrootsabortion activism likely to be crucial to ensuring abortionaccess. This activism builds on queer notions of pride andalternative family and is spearheaded by activist-scholarswho explicitly aim to reposition people who abort ascapable of political action. This activist dimension hasattracted little attention to date. My interdisciplinaryresearch seeks to fill this gap. I will study how abortionactivists position those who abort as political subjects. Iwill analyse groups' online appearances, their primary wayof reaching larger audiences, and interview activists. Byconceptualising transgressive social forces through affecttheory, I will investigate the emotional and unspokendimensions of abortion activism. This will promoteimproved understandings of the persuasiveness ofcontemporary feminist activism.