Rita Segato will be declared outstanding personality in the Legislative Assembly

This Monday, the Legislature of Buenos Aires will distinguish the feminist anthropologist as "Outstanding Personality of Culture". Rita Laura Segato is a social anthropologist, renowned for her studies of gender among indigenous peoples and Latin American communities. The academic will be highlighted by the legislative power of the city their contributions to the study of gender-based violence and relations between gender, racism and colonialism.

"On the basis of Neither one nor the other, of this spontaneous movement needing to visualize feminicides, the contribution of Rita Segato was to clarify the problem and provide men and women with tools to work on causes, "he said. Maria Rosa Muiños, in dialogue with INFORMATION. The Peronist Bloc legislator was the author of the project to showcase the researcher, who was voted unanimously by all the deputies of Buenos Aires. Today, at 6 pm, there will be an act of recognition in the Golden hall of the legislative palace.

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Rita Segato feminism through its research on feminicide in Brazil, where it was convened by the National Research Council investigate the problem. There, she was a teacher Department of Anthropology of the University of Brasilia between 1985 and 2010. It is one of the first voices in the academic field that has badociated badual crimes with power and domination of the patriarchal system.

This year, the professor inaugurates the Chair of uncomfortable thought at the National University of San Martin. In her presentation, she badyzed the feminist escraches, which for her are "a noble and debated justice", necessary for the place that is not occupied by the state. But he warned of the risks involved: "This is not a lynching, without clear parameters of the right process.These errors could defeat many well-treated conquests and escrows.The punishment does not lead to a decrease in the problems we have.".

"Femicide and rape exist because there is a huge breeding ground, disseminated daily in the social sphere, in the daily aggressions that all women undergo"said the researcher in front of a full auditorium in the National University of San Martín, and proposed on all non-gender-based violence that "By changing this breeding ground, this iceberg base, we will then be able to influence what can be described as a crime".

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In addition, Segato was chosen by the The book foundation to deliver the opening speech of the 45th Book Fair, which will take place in the countryside between April and May. This is the third time in a row that the main act is headed by a woman.

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