Abstract

RABBIA, Hugo H.. Conservative religious mobilizations in Argentina: the campaign for pro-life municipalities and provinces. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2022, vol.43, n.92, pp.111-146.  Epub Mar 18, 2022. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/922022/atc4/rabbiah.

The paper analyzes the declaration of localities and provinces as pro-life in Argentina, through the campaign “Sumemos ciudades por la vida” (Let’s add cities for life), promoted by the Argentine Catholic Association (ACA) since 2011. We describe how this subnational campaign was developed and we also offer an interpretative lecture of its symbolic and political effects. From analyzing different sources (local bills, journalist articles, official press releases), the paper characterizes two moments in the campaign, which allows us to notice a greater incidence of religious actors and the political class in the moments in which the legalization of abortion was discussed at the national level. In addition to suggests different speeds of process of institutional secularization at the subnational level, many of the actions promoted by the campaign sustained a logic of exclusion of dissident positions. The strategy is also a relevant precedent for similar anti-gender’ transnational campaigns.

Keywords : Anti-abortion; anti-gender; pro-life cities; subnational politics; institutional secularization.

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