From the academy to the territory: an experience in extension from the gender perspective

Abstract

The following article is based on the experiences carried out through the UniversityExtension Project “Building citizenship from a gender perspective”, of the Facultyof Legal and Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), inconjunction with the Civil Association “Generar” from the city of Santa Fe. Thepurpose of this was to open a space for dialogue and exchange in the San Agustín IIneighborhood of the aforementioned city, where various institutional referents wereconvened to learn about their problems and offer training on gender and violencethrough a dynamic where all voices could be heard. Collective reading and thedeconstruction of internalized concepts favored the opening to an emancipatory dialogue, a kickstart for the construction of a new citizenship. Finally, it was intendedto begin the assembly of an inter-institutional network to address said issues and thedelivery of a resourcer with information to continue the work begun. This articleaims to bring together communication as a socio-political practice and gender as aconstruction of citizenship situated in a socio-historical and cultural context from acritical and reflective perspective.