Feminist Post-Technocracy Care Infrastructure in Bogotá By Carlos José Celis
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1.1 Context
Figure 1. Map of Colombia Atlantic Ocean
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Venezuela
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Teen mother. Housekeeper. Activist. Vice President?
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New York Times, May 12th, 2022.
NPR, February 23rd, 2024.
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1.2 Research Questions
What does the System of Care reveal about transformations in social policy processes in Colombia? How is the State changing, if at all, with the emergence of care as a policy realm?
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1.3 Policy
Figure 2. Map of Bogotá, the Care Blocks of the System of Care. CB Suba Fontanar CB Suba Gaitana
CB Usaquén
CB Engativá Pueblo CB Fontibón CB Engativá Casa de la Mujer CB Kennedy CB Bosa Porvenir CB Bosa CV CB Puente Aranda CB Kennedy Timiza CB Rafael Uribe Uribe CB Ciudad Bolívar Ecoparque
CB Barrios Unidos CB Teusaquillo CB Chapinero CB Los Mártires CB Santa Fe CB Antonio Nariño CB San Cristóbal CEFE
CB Tunjuelito CB Ciudad Bolívar Manitas CB San Cristóbal Juan Rey CB Ciudad Bolívar Mochuelos
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1.4 Methodology
1-year ethnography. 21 semi-structured interviews with bureaucrats, experts, and policymakers. Photography, GIS, and satistical inference.
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1.5 Frameworks 1
Policy Studies
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Feminist Anthropology Science & of the Technology State Studies
Challenging the rationality and objectivity of policy (Stone, 2011)
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Infrastructure as “epistemological vantage points” for “thinking differently” (von Schnitzler, 2017, p. 147) about State’s transitions.
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1.6 Argument Feminist activists are taking strategic positions within the state’s technocratic apparatus
Feminist Post-Technocracy A sophisticated technical system of governance that no longer pretends to be apolitical
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Index
Slide
1. Introduction
P. 3
2. Infrastructure
P. 13
3. Bureaucracy
P. 24
4. Expertise
P. 30
5. Indicators
P. 40
6. Conclusions
P. 46
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2.1 Rehearsal Infrastructure
Technological performances. (Rutherford, 2018) Prefigurative politcs: “a new society within the shell of the old.” (Breines, 1980).
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2.1 Rehearsal Infrastructure
I propose the concept of rehearsal infrastructure to describe a type of public infrastructure in which the state, through repetition, prefigures, improvises, enacts, and embodies new political scripts without requiring long-term development plans or expensive material transformations.
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Index
Slide
1. Introduction
P. 3
2. Infrastructure
P. 13
3. Bureaucracy
P. 24
4. Expertise
P. 30
5. Indicators
P. 40
6. Conclusions
P. 46
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3.1 Smuggling Bureaucrats Zacka (2017) argues that street-level bureaucrats serve as translators. They translate personal stories into “cases” or bureaucratic processes into actions that are legible to citizens. “As mediators between state and society, street-level bureaucrats have a foot in two worlds that are often out of tune with one another” (p.16) Juan Cárdenas—translators as smugglers, bringing products (or concepts, ideas, meanings, stories) from one place (or language) to another, sometimes without permission, and trying to stay unnoticed.
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3.1 Smuggling Bureaucrats
Nosotras
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3.1 Smuggling Bureaucrats “Many of them [coordinators] were feminist activists, many of them we knew from years ago, in feminist protests. Others were known by sisters in the feminist movement. I always told Diana [the Women’s Secretary], you have to bring in people who fought for this, who know about this. I thank her for trusting me.” (Natalia Moreno, System’s Director, as cited by Rivadulla et al, 2024). “We [lawyer and psychologist] precisely give them the space to express themselves, to talk, to vent all their feelings.” (Interview-12)
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Index
Slide
1. Introduction
P. 3
2. Infrastructure
P. 13
3. Bureaucracy
P. 24
4. Expertise
P. 30
5. Indicators
P. 40
6. Conclusions
P. 46
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Index
Slide
1. Introduction
P. 3
2. Infrastructure
P. 13
3. Bureaucracy
P. 24
4. Expertise
P. 30
5. Indicators
P. 40
6. Conclusions
P. 46
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5.1 Satellite Economies Average daily work hours per individual, Colombia (2021) Data: Time Use DANE 2021
Paid work
Unpaid care work
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7:37
men vs. women
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5.1 Satellite Economies
“I want to be able to participate in that debate, and I can’t do that unless I have some dollar estimates” (Folbre, 2018).
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Index
Slide
1. Introduction
P. 3
2. Infrastructure
P. 13
3. Bureaucracy
P. 24
4. Expertise
P. 30
5. Indicators
P. 40
6. Conclusions
P. 46
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6.1 Argument Feminist activists are taking strategic positions within the state’s technocratic apparatus
Feminist Post-Technocracy A sophisticated technical system of governance that no longer pretends to be apolitical
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6.2 Sensing like the State
The Fighting Temeraire. 1839, by Joseph Mallord William Turner.
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6.2 Sensing like the State
Technocracy defines the state’s orientations and trajectories. Care infrastructure expands the state political sensibilities. Taking the state out of line and deviating it from long-lasting hegemonic trajectories—disorienting it.
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Thanks! By Carlos José Celis celic265@newschool.edu