Verónica Gago

Leader of Latin America's powerful new women's movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politics Recent years have seen massive feminist mobilizations in virtually every continent, overturning social mores and repressive legislation. As women filled the streets of Argentina and Madrid, in Italy and Poland, they've transformed the meaning of radical politics and the grammar of various struggles. In this brilliant and kaleidoscopic look at the emerging feminist international, Veronica Gago uses the women's strike as both a concept and a collective experience. At once a gripping political analysis and a theoretically-charged manifesto, The Feminist International draws on the authors rich experience with radical movements to enter into ongoing debates in feminist and marxist theory: from social reproduction and domestic work to the intertwining of financial and gender violence, as well as controversies surrounding the neo-extractivist model of development, the possibilities and limits of left populism, and the ever-vexed nexus of gender-race-class. Gago's feminism is powerful call to abandon the rhetoric of victimization, and to instead mount a frontal challenge to both neo-liberal rule and the conservative counteroffensive. The Feminist Revolution asks what another theory of power might look like, one premised on our desire to change everything.

How to Change Everything

Feminist International

Luci Cavallero

This book seeks to politicize and collectivise the issue of debt from a feminist perspective. Examining the intimate connection between gender-based violence and exploitation through debt, the authors argue that there is no universal debtor-creditor relationship. Debt cannot be separated from concrete situations because rather than homogenizing differences in gender, race and location, debt exploits these distinctions. This work seeks to expand and deepen our understandings of finance and reproduction, as well as provide useful accounts of how to resist debt from some of those most affected.The book includes five interviews with women from different organizations in Argentina and Brazil. These interviews draw a map of contemporary forms of exploitation, showing how different women are affected by debt, how they connect financial violence to other forms of gender violence, and how they resist the subjugation that debt seeks to impose on them. The book concludes with a series of manifestos coming out of the Argentine feminist movement that demonstrate this feminist reading of debt.

A Feminist Reading of Debt

Lola Olufemi

Silvia Federici

Zahra Ali

Djamila Ribeiro

Sayak Valencia

Françoise Vergès

Rama Salla Dieng

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstream—systematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has this increased visibility entailed, other than the marketisation of the feminist struggle? Feminism for the World argues that we have been witnessing an erasure of feminism as a long-term tradition, with its many conflicting histories and geographies of struggle elided and forgotten. In this ground-breaking collection, eight leading international figures of contemporary feminism highlight feminist struggles and traditions from the Global South, presenting feminism as a project that is impossible without international solidarity from the West. In doing so they revive an authentic internationalism and propose paths for present and future generations.

Feminism for the World

Veronica Gago provides a new theory of neoliberalism by examining how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups in and around the La Salada market in Buenos Aires.

Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies

Neoliberalism from Below

Engelbert Stockhammer

Randall Wray

Giorgos Gouzoulis

Mercedes Marcó del Pont

Cecilia Todesca Bocco

Pablo Chena

Emilia Buccella

Pablo Bortz

Annina Kaltenbrunner

Guillermo Wierzba

Pedro M. Biscay

Julio Neffa

Alexandre Roig

Ariel Wilkis

Martín Hornes

Roberto Arias

Rodrigo Ruete

La presente obra aborda el devenir de un capitalismo financiero cuyas prácticas concretas en el ámbito micro y macro social dan cuenta de un verdadero imperio de las finanzas. En este sentido, el objetivo propuesto no se agota en un análisis del poder financiero y sus consecuencias económicas; sino que coloca particular énfasis en estudiar y ponderar alternativas que permitan sortear el escenario de endeudamiento, fragilidad jurídica y desigualdad social en que vivimos. Concebido en el horizonte de una reflexión amplia en la que convergen economistas, abogados, sociólogos, antropólogos y especialistas en políticas públicas, el libro sintetiza diversos órdenes de transformaciones propias de la financierización de la sociedad. Allí se pueden identificar desde modificaciones estructurales en las formas de acumulación del sector empresario, a partir de un mayor vínculo con los mercados de capitales, a la proliferación de prácticas culturales ligadas al endeudamiento familiar como alternativa al deterioro del salario real. En paralelo se observa también un desplazamiento de la actividad clásica de intermediación financiera hacia estructuras de "shadow banking", en cualquiera de sus diferentes manifestaciones. Los abordajes conceptuales se encuentran hilvanados a estudios empíricos realizados en diferentes países, tanto desarrollados como subdesarrollados, con el objetivo de comprender mejor la lógica de funcionamiento de la financierzación a nivel nacional e internacional. En este sentido, el estudio simultáneo de la dinámica macroeconómica local y global (primera parte), junto con el análisis de la modificación de reglas institucionales en el ámbito monetario-financiero y jurídico (segunda parte); permiten arribar a la arqueología profunda de una racionalidad financiera, que luego se refleja en prácticas monetarias que penetran en los sectores más vulnerables de la sociedad (tercera parte).

Deuda y desigualdad

El imperio de las finanzas

In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada in Buenos Aires as a point of departure, Gago shows how alternative economic practices, such as the sale of counterfeit goods produced in illegal textile factories, resist neoliberalism while simultaneously succumbing to its models of exploitative labor and production. Gago demonstrates how La Salada's economic dynamics mirror those found throughout urban Latin America. In so doing, she provides a new theory of neoliberalism and a nuanced view of the tense mix of calculation and freedom, obedience and resistance, individualism and community, and legality and illegality that fuels the increasingly powerful popular economies of the global South's large cities.

La potencia feminista, o, El deseo de cambiarlo todo

Verónica Gago

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