Project at HIAS
Feminist Practices of Disruptive Appropriation of Technology in Contexts of Precarious Employment and Authoritarianism
The forms of gender-based political violence against women leaders have multiplied, mainly through online platforms and social media in Latin American countries. The research focuses on women workers in precarious sectors (public services, digital platforms, care work). On the one hand, it seeks to document a range of expressions of violence—particularly those expressed through digital channels—towards trade union leaders. On the other hand, it aims to identify the modes of response and resistance developed through the link between women workers’ organisations and feminist organisations fighting for digital and labour rights and against gender-based violence. The project will explore the links between technopolitics and artistic practices to reimagine feminist futures in the world of work.
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Florencia Partenio
Funding
The HIAS Fellowship is provided by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the federal and state funds acquired by the University of Hamburg in the framework of its Excellence Strategy.
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Biography
Florencia Partenio has a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Social Sciences. She has been leading the research group on gender studies, feminist economics and technologies at the Center for Digital Society Studies (CESDi), at the Interdisciplinary School of Advanced Social Studies, National University of San Martín (UNSAM). She has been the director of this research Centre since its establishment in 2024. Professor at the seminar “Women’s Rights and Political Action from a Feminist Perspective”, Master of Feminist Studies, San Martin National University. Academic Coordinator of the Diploma in Artificial Intelligence, Platform and Digital Society, San Martin University. Since 2020, she has been the coordinator of the Feminist Digital Justice research and advocacy project of the Global South Network DAWN. Author of numerous research projects on women’s working conditions, indebtedness, economic and social inequalities, transformations at work, impact of digital platforms and AI. She is the chair of the Argentine Association for Research in Women’s History and Gender Studies.
Before, she held positions as coordinator for technology transfer projects in the women-led productive and cooperative sectors over a period of 15 years. She also formed part of training teams for trade unions aimed at preventing violence and harassment in the workplace, including gender-based violence.
Her main research topics include:
- Feminist digital activism in the global South: strategies and movement building
- Digitalisation, AI and Platforms in the World of Work: gender equality in the platform economy
- Labor rights, digital rights and human rights
- The links and connections between the feminist movement and the labour movement during socio-economic crises in South America
- Technopolitics and artistic practices to reimagine feminist futures in the world of work
Florencia Partenio’s HIAS Fellowship is provided by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the federal and state funds acquired by the University of Hamburg in the framework of its Excellence Strategy.