Women street vendors of the Historic Center of Cuenca, multiple violence and resistances from a feminist and intersectional approach

This research aims to reveal the multiple violence living in informal working women who are dedicated to street trade in the vicinity of the Historic Center of the City of Cuenca from a feminist and intersectional approach. The relationship between the capitalism-patriarchy-colonialism oppression systems operate in the processes of labor precariousness, lack of access and opportunities as well as multiple forms of violence that are imposed on the bodies of impoverished women, sexualized, racialized and migrated that are dedicated to street trade. The displacement in space according to the interests of capital, which places them in insecure areas, as well as the invisibility of their economic-symbolic-cultural production, through the preservation and conservation of local traditions and gastronomy, show the multiple faces of violence against women. Violence that are not exempt from resistances. To comply with the project objectives we will use quantitative and qualitative methods for the lifting of primary information, which allows us to understand the different forms of violence suffered by women street vendors. It is expected to have a characterization of working women in the informal sector dedicated to street sales from an intersectional class, ethnicity, gender identity, age, immigration status; Determine the incursion factors and the conditions under which they work in the informal sector; Make visible its triple role and care, as well as their role in the maintenance of local traditions. In addition to the multiple violence they experience, the repercussions on their subjectivities and agency. Through the participatory process we will build collectively, with institutions and the beneficiary population an intervention proposal that allows us to generate a public policy appropriate to the needs of the project benefiting the project, as well as an intervention plan that helps improve the working conditions of women street vendors of the Historic Center of Cuenca.

2nd UNIVERSITY COMPETITION FOR RESEARCH-LINKAGE PROJECTS