Ruptures 21: Towards New Economies, Societies and Legalities
Ruptures21, an initiative of The IEL Collective, responds to the challenges posed by old and current economic, social and legal dynamics and their impact on the human and non-human world. Through international interdisciplinary and interinstitutional collaborations, it advances novel ways to understand and address global issues.
Ruptures21 call for a break with set approaches and new ways of acting and being.
Our first arena of study is on the informal economy and public health. In this project – Informality in Times of Covid-19 – we are exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on informal workers, using Colombia as our main case study.
This project brings together a group of socio-legal scholars, labour economists, public health experts, anthropologists, film makers, graphic designers and public policy makers in order to study the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on informal workers and their families. Colombia is a particularly relevant site to conduct this research given that, as Ruptures21 has found out, 61.2% of workers earn their living in the informal economy.
Mixing media and blurring the boundaries between quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and between practice and the academy, outcomes of this project include multilingual policy briefings, life histories, documentaries, online outreach platforms and the first comprehensive data-base of aggregated data on informality in Colombia. Highlighting both the enormous yet often forgotten contribution of informal workers to the general economy of nations and the ultra-precarities they face in moments of public health crises, the outcomes of this project make an urgent call for a new set of new social, economic and health policies in Colombia and similar countries.
You can access the project鈥檚 initial Reports and Life Histories in the following links: Report 1 /; Report 2 /; Life History 1 /; Life History 2 /. We have also produced the documentary, Informality in Times of Covid-19, in collaboration with the collective ArtoArte. We are pleased to share with you the English version of the documentary below. For the Spanish version of the documentary and the recording of the Informality in Times of Covid-19 project launch, that featured Prof. 脥talo Cardona, the ILO Representative in Colombia,
Follow the work of Rutures21 and the other products of the Informality in Times of Covid-19 project through the
Informality in Covid-19 Times is supported by the University of Kent, the University of Essex, the 神马福利影片 and Rosario University and has been conducted in alliance with the Observatory for Women鈥檚 Equity (ICESI, Colombia), LaboUR, the Research Group on Public Health and Epidemiology (Rosario University) and AlianzaEFI.
Image: F. Maecha, Colombia, Shutterstock (2018)
Partner institutions:
Partner Institutions
Our Team
Project Coordinator:
Luis Eslava (Kent)
Academic & Administrative Director:
Johana Cort茅s Nieto (Rosario)
Finance Director:
Enrique Prieto R铆os (Rosario)
Public Health & Epidemiology Director:
Leonardo Brice帽o (Rosario)
Labour Law and Regulation Director:
Iv谩n Daniel Jaramillo (Rosario)
Academic and Research Committee:
Donatella Alesssandrini (Kent)
Carolina Alonso Bejarano (Warwick)
Celine Tan (Warwick)
Tara Van Ho (Essex)
Anil Yilmaz Vastardis (Essex)
Quantitative Group:
Diana Londo帽o Aguirre
Andr茅s Garc铆a Suaza
Qualitative Group:
Ang茅lica Sierra Gaona
Audiovisuals Group:
Clara Viviana V谩squez Franco (Colectivo ArtoArte)
Jes煤s David Su谩rez Su谩rez (Colectivo ArtoArte)
Online Products and Infographs:
Dora Su谩rez
Translation and Research Support:
Andr茅s Rodr铆guez
Alliances:
Grupo de Investigaci贸n en Salud P煤blica
Observatorio para la Equidad de las Mujeres
LaboUR
AlianzaEFI