Scarves in street activism. Politics of emergence and feminist social protests

Abstract

In this article we propose to reflect on the possible links between aesthetics and politics, based on an analysis of the social protests of the feminist movement in the city of Rosario and the different appearance policies that are configured there. To do so, we will analyze the expressive resources that make up social protests as aesthetic practices, as actions that are reiterated and updated and as devices that carry a certain social knowledge that is transferred. We will dwell, specifically, on the green scarf as an aesthetic resource with centrality within the toolkit of feminisms. First, we briefly reconstruct the trajectory of the scarf as a political aesthetic resource on which different traditions of struggle have tested their street activism. Then, we focus on the modulations of the green scarf and establish the links that allow us to understand its itinerary, its use, its expressive capacity and the constitution of a territory of common understanding within the feminist movement.