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Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2023

Catherine Reyes-Housholder ,
Julieta Suárez-Cao  and
Carmen Le Foulon
Catherine Reyes-Housholder*
Affiliation:
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Julieta Suárez-Cao
Affiliation:
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Carmen Le Foulon
Affiliation:
Center of Public Studies
*
*Corresponding author. Email: creyeshousholder@uc.cl
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Citizen protests are common political phenomena, ranging in size, kind, and impact. This essay focuses on a unique kind of citizen protest that reaches a crisis threshold: massive uprisings accompanied by violence and system-level critiques, expressed in phrases such as “It is not 30 cents, it is 30 years,” used by protesters in Chile in 2019–20. Crises meeting this definition have occurred in countries as diverse as Iceland in 2009, Hong Kong in 2019, Chile, and Colombia in 2019–21. In contrast with economic crises (Strolovitch 2013), protesters—not necessarily elites—perform the discursive work of (re)interpreting material and political conditions. Protesters’ framing of their grievances may overwhelm elite attempts to reinterpret these crises for their benefit. We argue that protest-driven crises can alter gendered opportunity structures, but outcomes are likely multifaceted and potentially contradictory.

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Critical Perspectives Article
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Politics & Gender , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 915 - 921
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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