G.07. Democracy of Care: Rethinking Networks and Relationships of Counter Gender-Based Violence

Gender-based violence is a form of social injustice that silently and sometimes imperceptibly traps victims in vicious circles from which they struggle to escape. Lack of awareness, feelings of shame, and economic dependence on the abuser are among the main factors that lead women to hide the violence they suffer. Similarly, these are factors that make it difficult to detect the phenomenon outside the home.

The panel aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue through contributions that explore and problematize the following themes:

- deconstruct distorted ideas about caregiving dynamics that have patriarchal roots, are learned from role models, and reproduced within emotional relationships: it is within these relationships that the most brutal acts of violence sometimes occur, which are not always visible or perceptible outside the home. In this way, family contexts and emotional relationships become a privileged theater for abuse, mistreatment, and dehumanization, often due to an unhealthy idea of home, care, love, and affection;
- understand the role played by the educational community and the inter-institutional network in intercepting the phenomenon and training teachers, law enforcement officers, administrative technicians and, more generally, all operators involved in the prevention and combating system;
- raise awareness of the recognition of violence in close relationships and promote recognition processes through the design of self-narrative and reflective educational practices.

Scholars who wish to respond to this call are invited to submit contributions that address one or more of the proposed thematic areas.