A FEMINIST READING OF DEBT

GAGO, VERÓNICA; CAVALLERO, LUCÍA

Pluto Press

Lugar: London; Año: 2021 p. 90

978 0 7453 4171 2

This book systematizes our personal and collective investigations carried out over the past few years within the public and free univer- sity in Argentina, as well as in spaces of militant research, particularly as members of the Ni Una Menos Collective. Our investigations and activism show that there is an urgent need to develop a specifically feminist analysis of finance. Here we do so by bringing together meth- odological elements, political hypotheses, and narratives of practices elaborated by the feminist movement that are challenging finance.This material is inscribed within the horizon of the organizational process of the international feminist strikes that, since 2016, have allowed us to develop these conversations through situating ourselves in concrete actions. Like the process of the contemporary feminist movement itself, this elaboration is open, ongoing. Here we provide a perspective on feminist economics through synthesizing idea-forces that function as original and stimulating coordinates that can be useful for further col- lective research. This feminist reading of debt is only possible because we have been able to discuss finance in terms of conflict and, therefore, in terms of the self-defense of our autonomy. That is what allows us to shout ?We want ourselves alive, free, and debt free!?