Complexities of Capitalist Accumulation at the Socio-Spatial Level from Global South: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Perspectives.

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: SJES006 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity (host committee)
RC32 Women, Gender and Society

Language: English and Spanish

This session invites the presentation of works that explore how capitalist accumulation has generated inequalities involving gender, class, and/or ethnicity, which develop in diverse socio-spatial contexts that contribute to increasing, maintaining, or decreasing these inequalities.

  • The objective of thise session is to examine the voices and experiences of women at the community level (urban-rural), people from different social class contexts, and/or various indigenous peoples. The panel will contribute to the analysis of inequalities and their complexities, based on the examination of these variables in specific socio-spatial contexts at various scales in the Global South. The focus will be on the the challenges, strategies, and resistances encountered in these experiences. Presentations that employ gender and space theories, critical interculturality, decoloniality, and an intersectional approach are especially invited. Both empirical and theoretical explorations are welcomed, in either English and Spanish, and presentations can may adopt any of these approaches. Potential topics may include but not limited to:Theoretical discussions on gender, class, and ethnicity related to struggles against inequalities in diverse socio-spatial contexts.
  • Studies that problematize the capitalist model from a socio-spatial perspective at different scales (household, neighborhood, regional).
  • Narratives of communities and collectives (urban and rural) that face tensions and challenges in the Global South.
  • Complexities generated from a critical reading of the capitalist accumulation model, from these different variables.
  • Individual and collective strategies and practices that generate daily ruptures contributing to reducing inequalities.
  • New methodologies that allow the interaction of the socio-spatial context with gender, class, and ethnicity.
Session Organizers:
Denisse SEPULVEDA, Haute école de travail social, Chile and Patricia RETAMAL GARRIDO, Universidad Mayor, Chile
Oral Presentations
Más Allá De Las Normas De Género: Organización y Significado Del Trabajo En La Sociedad Rapa Nui Actual
Alessandra OLIVI, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Julieta PALMA, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile