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The Power of Mass Mobilisation: Argentina's Struggle for the Legalisation of Abortion
Author(s) -
Szczepańska Dagmara
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.13042
Subject(s) - abortion , legislature , narrative , power (physics) , political science , law , perspective (graphical) , public administration , sociology , political economy , pregnancy , genetics , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science
The mass pro‐abortion mobilisation which took place in 2018 has been arguably the most successful attempt in Argentina's history at altering the existing legal framework regulating access to voluntary termination of pregnancy. Never before has any legislative project legalising abortion reached the upper chamber of the Congress. Could this result be attributed to the support it received from a mass social movement? What are the limitations of mass mobilisations when a structural change to a long‐lasting narrative is required? In order to address these questions, the issue of abortion will be examined through the perspective of power‐making and counterpower‐making strategies.