Abstract

PERUSSET, Macarena. Resilience and reconstruction: readings on vulnerability and impact of gender-based violence (2019-2021). Desde el Sur [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.1, e0008. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/des-1501-2023-0008.

This paper determines the path followed by Flavia, a woman victim of gender-based violence, who left her home in the province of La Rioja and moved to a small community in the northwest of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, with her two daughters. Based on the ethnographic work carried out, we analyze the search for and construction of a home from the vulnerability approach. The fieldwork allows us to explore how women and their families which have experienced situations of genderbased violence live in "vulnerable homes" and were able to rebuild themselves by relying on family ties and social support networks in order to rebuild a home. This work also allows us to observe how the notion of vulnerability was used in different situations or scenarios as a moral and bureaucratic resource both, by public authorities to select those to protect, and by vulnerable people, to claim their rights. Vulnerability emerges as a space of experience in which people learn to navigate and in which distress, creativity and social support networks overlap.

Keywords : Vulnerability; gender-based violence; social networks; community; support.

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