We are the granddaughters of the witches who could never burn: an anthropological reflection of the Green Tide in Argentina

Abstract

This paper addresses the phenomenon of the green tide in Argentina from the explosion of feminist activism, specifically youth, around the legalization of abortion, which was established especially with the entry of a bill on voluntary interruption of pregnancy to the Congress of the Nation and its discussion in the lower and upper houses during the winter of 2018. The work is based on the hypothesis that the green tide implied a commotion of social life in general, and of the relationships established within certain social institutions -among which middle school institutions stand out-, and that, therefore, it can be analyzed from Victor Turner's anthropological notion of "social drama". The schism of large dimensions produced by the massification of feminisms that occupied the streets across the country during the vigils of June 13 and August 8, 2018, will allow us to inquire into some of the outstanding characteristics of that green tide. Namely: its generational mark -the visible process of juvenilization of local feminist activisms-, its sex/gender/desire and race/class marks, and certain (dis)identificatory processes that such a tide offered.