Social Reproduction and Financial Extractivism

GAGO, VERÓNICA

A Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought

Edward Edgar

Lugar: New York; Año: 2024; p. 1 - 20

Explaining why there is a change in the relations of production that takes thesphere of reproduction (violently attacked and made “unsafe”) a privileged sitebecomes a central hypothesis for understanding the ways in which care andtelework, the restriction of incomes and emergence of new debts, greaterdifficulties in formal and informal employment and the housing emergency becomemixed together, along with the strengthening of platforms as service providers andthe increase in internet and telephone rates.I use the concept “financial extractivism” because it enables us to connect debt withpolitical-ecological struggles against neo-extractivist projects, thereby revealingthe linkages between debt, dispossession, and exploitation. By adding this financialdimension to our struggles, we can better map flows of debt and modes ofexploitation in the dynamic, versatile and apparently “invisible” forms in whichneoliberal mutation is rooted.