The co-creation of antagonism : a lexical analysis of legal mobilizations over abortion in Colombia
Pro-life and pro-choice movements seemingly pursue drastically different objectives in the debate over abortion. Using the case of the legal mobilization before the Colombian Constitutional Court, I ask what happens when these two movements meet in the same institutional arena. To answer this questi...
- Autores:
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Saldarriaga González, Yuri Shirley
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2021
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/53535
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/53535
- Palabra clave:
- Aborto
Movimientos sociales
Colombia
Sociología
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
| Summary: | Pro-life and pro-choice movements seemingly pursue drastically different objectives in the debate over abortion. Using the case of the legal mobilization before the Colombian Constitutional Court, I ask what happens when these two movements meet in the same institutional arena. To answer this question, I use an original dataset of legal files and apply to it distant reading techniques. Content and temporal analysis of judicial arguments over abortion reveals several counter-intuitive results. Contrary to a common assumption in the literature on antagonistic social movements, I show that the interaction between the two movements was not simply reactive. Instead, it led to the accidental co-creation of a common set of concepts, which gradually allowed each movement to position itself more clearly with respect to its rival. |
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