INVESTIGADORES
GAGO Maria Veronica
artículos
Título:
The Pandemic as Financial Laboratory
Autor/es:
GAGO, VERÓNICA; CAVALLERO, LUCÍA
Revista:
TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
Editorial:
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Referencias:
Lugar: Toronto; Año: 2022 vol. 45 p. 165 - 174
ISSN:
1206-0143
Resumen:
COVID-19 quarantine measures impacted incomes, labour and housingsituations in different ways, particularly in the domestic sphere. In Argentina,financial inclusion polices were linked, on one hand to the bankarization ofnew sectors to access relief funds, and on the other to the proliferation of fintechto mediate the receipt of funds. Debt, as a way of privatizing the crisis in the abil-ity to eat, protect and heal oneself, solves emergencies in the here and now andexploits and conditions future time. Household debt, as a specific articulation ofgender mandates, extracts value from reproductive tasks. Household debt is also anindex of public debt, its cascading down the social hierarchy, and, as such, allowsfor a simultaneous analysis of the micro and macro planes. Even prior to the healthemergency, the expansion of financial technologies targeting the most precarioussectors was becoming an accelerator for taking out non-banking debt.
