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Dr. Constanza Rangel Núñez, a member of the Costa Rican Advisory Group of Wings of the Butterfly, was one of several women from around of the world who traveled to Toronto in June for a course to explore ways to bring feminist perspectives to issues of peace, human rights and sustainable development.
Rangel, a feminist psychoanalyst, was granted a scholarship to participate in the course by the Centre for Women's Studies in Education, of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. The course, which was offered by the International Human Rights Education Institute, was entitled Women's Human Rights: Building a Peaceful World in an Era of Globalization in June 11-29, 2007 in Canada.
The scholarship recognizes Rangel's recent doctoral work that connects feminism, holistic paradigms and psychoanalysis in her dissertation entitled, “About the Opacity, Un-conscience, Uncertainty and the Feminine".
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Alda Facio & Constanza Rangel |
The OISE course in Toronto was offered by feminists who are specialists in Women's Human Rights, among them another member of the Advisory Group of Wings, Alda Facio of Costa Rica, and feminist economists including Peggy Antrobus of Barbados and Mónica Muñoz of Chile and Angela Miles of Canada.
The course was designed to promotes an understanding of the global economic, ecological, legal, cultural and political contexts of issues of peace, human rights and sustainable development, as well as of the groundbreaking work in this area by women and men around the world.
Women from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Canada attended the course, seeking along with the professors, the construction of a Holistic Paradigm that includes women's perspectives and contributions, so often made invisible or discounted in other paradigmatic proposals.
Last year some members of the International Feminist University (IFUN) founder group visited Costa Rica , interested in knowing feminists contributions from the country in the paradigmatic reformulations from feminism. It was in that occasion in which the director of the Centre that offers the course at OISE, Angela Miles, came to know the work of Rangel and others in Group 13 "Gender and Education" of Universidad La Salle in the 2003-2006 Doctoral Program. Miles wanted to build connections with this work and initiatives of her Women's Studies Centre.
The “post doctoral” continuity of the original doctoral group is being further developed through an interaction of research, instruction programs, artistic events and the design and production of the musical theatre play entitled, "WINGS OF BUTTERFLY, which is scheduled for an its inaugural opening in Costa Rica in February 28, 2008. The musical theatre performance group will travel around the world.
Upon her return from Canada, Rangel declared that the course, and in particular the dialogue with other professors and students bringing different experiences and approaches, allowed her to deepen her understanding of the fight for Women's Human Rights in the proposals for vital paradigms that include very important issues obscured in history, including the experiences and perspectives of women. "This has implications for our work of in Wings of Butterfly, because it enriches our perspectives and connects us with people with related interests and actions. Those are the reasons why I want to collaborate to further develop the Human Rights approach of Wings". |
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