Investigación sociojurídica feminista: perspectivas y métodos para monitorear el impacto de la COVID-19 en los derechos de las científicas ecuatorianas

Silvana Tapia-Tapia; Doménica Andrea Valverde-Cherrez

doi:10.33324/udalawreview.v3i1.401

Authors

Silvana Tapia-Tapia University of Birmingham
Doménica Andrea Valverde-Cherrez Universidad del Azuay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33324/udalawreview.v3i1.401

Keywords:

socio-legal methods, methodological design in legal research, feminist research, qualitative methods

Abstract

This article shows, by presenting the methodological design of a research project, how interdis-ciplinarity, empirical methods, and the critical perspective offered by feminist theories, can promote a sstyle of legal research that accounts for the material impact of law in people’s daily lives. The text offers some basic insights from feminist critiques of positivist epistemology, as well as theoretical considerations of ethnographically oriented socio-legal methods, including some of their ethical implications. The article then moves on to demonstrate how feminist theoretical contributions can be implemented, using the example of a research design on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rights of Ecuadorian academic women. The article explains how the chosen methods make it possible to answer questions that are not usually addressed by traditional legal formalism, which in turn enables the observation of unsuspected dimensions of the presence/absence of law, which dominant approaches tend to overlook.

Keywords: socio-legal methods, methodological design in legal research, feminist research, qualitative methods

Author Biographies

Silvana Tapia-Tapia, University of Birmingham

PhD en Estudios Sociojurídicos por la Universidad de Kent (Reino Unido), magíster en derecho penal y abogada por la Universidad del Azuay (Ecuador). Actualmente se desempeña como profesora titular de Género y Derecho y Fundamentos Filosóficos y Sociológicos del Derecho en la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas de la Universidad del Azuay. stapia@uazuay.edu.ec

Doménica Andrea Valverde-Cherrez, Universidad del Azuay

Estudiante de la Carrera de Derecho de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas de la Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca-Ecuador. dome_valch@es.uazuay.edu.ec

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