Dans le cadre d’un séminaire bilingue transatlantique portant sur les imaginaires du droit organisé par le Groupe de travail sur les humanités juridiques (École de droit de Sciences Po et Groupe de recherche sur les humanités juridiques), la professeure Helena Alviar García (École de droit de Sciences Po) présentera une conférence intitulée « Law and Narrative, Narrative and Law in Latin America: A Few Ideas to Explore Their Interaction » le 20 janvier 2022 de 11h30 à 13h30 (ET) sur Zoom. La présentation se déroulera en anglais.

Résumé :

Narrating through literature the economic, political, legal and social characteristics of Latin America, and the way in which they shape and determine its future has a long and rich tradition. From accounts of the inhuman conditions in which rubber was cultivated in the early 20^th century to recent depictions of the effects of global capitalism, writers have poetically described, denounced, interpreted and reimagined the region.  These accounts are filled with visions of the uses and abuses of law and its role in the pain and cruelty of poverty and exclusion, the joy and difficulties of resistance, the irony of everyday life.  On the other hand, progressive actors have used narratives to achieve revolutionary goals or social transformations through law.  These progressive and at times radical projects have had, broadly speaking, two different ways of relating to law and its possibilities to transform society: law as something we need more of, since the elites are acting outside it to do whatever they want or law as the prevalent form through which the economic elites dominate the masses. The objective of this presentation will be to explore the different ways through which literature has narrated the place of law and the ways in which actors have used narrative to mobilize law.

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La conférencière : 

Helena Alviar García est professeure à l’École de droit de Sciences Po.  Ses travaux mobilisent notamment les théories féministes, la propriété, le droit du développement, les droits sociaux et économiques et la justice transitionnelle.