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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Raquel
MÉNDEZ VILLAMIZAR

The professor of the School of Social Work, Raquel Méndez Villamizar, is presented to the general public and the educational community.

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CONTACT

Information

rmendezv@uis.edu.co

GENERAL

Biography

For 25 years she has contributed to the consolidation of equitable and democratic relations in various sociocultural contexts and has learned that, through the dialogue of knowledge, collective action with an impact on public policies and the training of researchers, sustainable processes of social transformation are achieved.

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In her doctorate she investigated the interaction between gender inequalities and rurality experienced by women in extractive contexts and their impact on daily life in love, work and parenthood because she believes that we have to look at everyday life and gendered subjectivities.

Her inspiration lies in the possibility of co-creating spaces and playful-pedagogical experiences and reinterpretation of individual and collective histories that transform the asymmetrical power relations that women live in daily life as a result of urban-rural, gender and racial inequalities.

EDUCATION AND

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Social Sciences


    Universidad de Ámsterdam, 2018

  • Master in Development Cooperation and Social Action


    Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, 2003

  • Social worker


    Universidad Industrial de Santander, 1997

Academic coordination

CONTACT

Information

rmendezv@uis.edu.co

AREAS OF

Expertise

  • Gender, body and culture

  • Territory, conflict and habitat

  • Praxis in Social Work

OFFICE

Hours

Monday 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

UIS Central Campus, Escuela de Trabajo social

Research

Group

AWARDS AND

Recognitions

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