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Subversión feminista de la economía. Aportes para un debate sobre el conflicto capital-vida
La respuesta política al estallido financiero ha vuelto a imponer la prioridad de los mercados sobre la vida. Sin duda, su sostenimiento sigue estando privatizado, invisibilizado, feminizado. A partir de la discusión sobre la economía feminista, este libro detalla las bases de un sistema injusto e inviable, fundado en la división seuxal del trabajo y el expolio del planeta. Su propósito consiste en mirar "más acá" de los mitos del desarrollo (crecimiento ilimitado), la riqueza (acumulación de capital) y el trabajo (limitado al trabajo asalariado) y a la vez dar cuenta de las tareas, redes y sujetos económicos que, material y cotidianamente, garantizan que la vida siga adelante. En este momento de tránsito, en el que el Estado del bienestar se ha escorado hacia los mercados, esta obra muestra la urgencia de discutir, radical y democráticamente, qué vida creemos digna de ser vivida y cómo podemos organizarnos para sotenerla de forma colectiva.
305 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2014
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October 4, 2022I read this book a while back, and am excited to read it again in its published form! Here's my blurb:
“In the last decade, feminist political economy has experienced an efflorescence, as a generation of new thinkers has critically revised the practice of reading the interconnected spheres of misery produced by capitalism, in all its debilitating forms. Why? Because such heterodox, ruptural feminisms offer the most robust theorization of the multidimensional confluence of ecological devastation, state-sanctioned racism, deteriorating mental and physical wellbeing, colonial exploitation, reliance on unpaid work (including care), heteropatriarchal division and social murder. These crises are synthetically and historically produced in and through capitalism, a global totality and the epicenter of these problems. Amaia Pérez Orozco’s The Feminist Subversion of the Economy is not just the exemplar of this critical-analytic tradition; this book is a further contribution towards the construction of “a solid base from which to fight”; a “utopian horizon”; a life-sustaining collectively-pedagogical project of “buen convivir”; and a feminist degrowth transition. This book will compel you think differently--and even better, with others!--as to how we can create a life-sustaining economy.”
“In the last decade, feminist political economy has experienced an efflorescence, as a generation of new thinkers has critically revised the practice of reading the interconnected spheres of misery produced by capitalism, in all its debilitating forms. Why? Because such heterodox, ruptural feminisms offer the most robust theorization of the multidimensional confluence of ecological devastation, state-sanctioned racism, deteriorating mental and physical wellbeing, colonial exploitation, reliance on unpaid work (including care), heteropatriarchal division and social murder. These crises are synthetically and historically produced in and through capitalism, a global totality and the epicenter of these problems. Amaia Pérez Orozco’s The Feminist Subversion of the Economy is not just the exemplar of this critical-analytic tradition; this book is a further contribution towards the construction of “a solid base from which to fight”; a “utopian horizon”; a life-sustaining collectively-pedagogical project of “buen convivir”; and a feminist degrowth transition. This book will compel you think differently--and even better, with others!--as to how we can create a life-sustaining economy.”
February 23, 2024
This is a thoughtful, carefully laid out argument for a completely different economy than the one we live in, by Amaia Pérez Orozco and her collaborator-translator Liz Mason-Deese. Mason-Deese apparently contributed a lot more to this current translation than to the previous version. The language is heavily academic, and can be challenge to read or follow.
Pérez Orozco is interested in the concept of buen vivir or, as she prefers, buen convivir, living well together. I had heard both terms, but I appreciated her tracing the concept back to more than one indigenous South American language. She is consistently careful about invoking indigenous terms, expectations, and practices, as she is also careful about how she uses common economic terms like "market," and "production." She has a charming way of describing the current late-stage capitalist system as "this scandalous Thing" (after Donna Haraway). She is trying to promote the term "decessities," which doesn't work well in English. Nonetheless, the underlying concept -- those things that sit squarely between being "needs" and "desires" -- is extremely useful: do we need to feel that we will be cared for in need, or do we just desire to feel that way? I also appreciated the compassionate rigor with which she sorts out concepts like universal basic income -- extremely important in the current system and simultaneously a way to reinforce the current system because it assumes that "income" and "money" are inextricably linked.
As I said, the book is dense and thoughtful. I certainly don't feel like I got anywhere near all of her points on a first read, and life being what it is, I'm unlikely to go back and re-read in full, but I do expect to dive in again here and there. If you're looking for a book that will help you think about how to think differently about economic possibility, and you can handle the style, this is a fine choice.
Pérez Orozco is interested in the concept of buen vivir or, as she prefers, buen convivir, living well together. I had heard both terms, but I appreciated her tracing the concept back to more than one indigenous South American language. She is consistently careful about invoking indigenous terms, expectations, and practices, as she is also careful about how she uses common economic terms like "market," and "production." She has a charming way of describing the current late-stage capitalist system as "this scandalous Thing" (after Donna Haraway). She is trying to promote the term "decessities," which doesn't work well in English. Nonetheless, the underlying concept -- those things that sit squarely between being "needs" and "desires" -- is extremely useful: do we need to feel that we will be cared for in need, or do we just desire to feel that way? I also appreciated the compassionate rigor with which she sorts out concepts like universal basic income -- extremely important in the current system and simultaneously a way to reinforce the current system because it assumes that "income" and "money" are inextricably linked.
As I said, the book is dense and thoughtful. I certainly don't feel like I got anywhere near all of her points on a first read, and life being what it is, I'm unlikely to go back and re-read in full, but I do expect to dive in again here and there. If you're looking for a book that will help you think about how to think differently about economic possibility, and you can handle the style, this is a fine choice.
January 14, 2025
Took me some time to get through but such a good book on our dependence on the invisibilised care economy and imagining a world where degendered and non reactionary care is prioritised over capitalist production
March 26, 2019
Para empezar, se agradece la mirada feminista que centra su atención, por ejemplo, en los trabajos no remunerados, algo que otras perspectivas críticas sobre el sistema capitalista (y heteropatriarcal) no siempre hacen, o no con la misma intensidad.
Este libro es realmente interesante, estoy totalmente de acuerdo con las ideas que plantea (el capitalismo y la monetización de casi todo frente a la posibilidad de vivir vidas dignas de ser vividas) pero, llegado a la página 80 de 277 de texto, me da pereza seguir leyendo, así que ya sólo hojeo y ojeo las páginas que quedan hasta el final. El futuro sera ecofeminista o no será (título del capítulo 5: "Decrecimiento ecofeminista o barbarie").
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Este libro es realmente interesante, estoy totalmente de acuerdo con las ideas que plantea (el capitalismo y la monetización de casi todo frente a la posibilidad de vivir vidas dignas de ser vividas) pero, llegado a la página 80 de 277 de texto, me da pereza seguir leyendo, así que ya sólo hojeo y ojeo las páginas que quedan hasta el final. El futuro sera ecofeminista o no será (título del capítulo 5: "Decrecimiento ecofeminista o barbarie").
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March 13, 2020
Un libro clave y súper útil para los debates actuales. La autora teoriza todas las cuestiones de la economía feminista de una manera clara e interesante. Lectura necesaria!
January 12, 2024
Este libro debería leerse en cualquier tipo de estudio sobre economía, pues es indispensable para entender el papel del capitalismo sin y con las mujeres.
February 23, 2025
Muy necesario
April 28, 2026
Imprescindible para formar un pensamiento feminista más allá del slogan de la manifestación.
February 8, 2024
“We will be societies in which labor does not exist or in which everything is work, because creating the life of the world is work and we will have blurred the boundaries between work and leisure, making it so that it finally gives us life. […] Those of us who have grown up in the center of this scandalous Thing will not recognize ourselves, because we will desire that which we do not desire today, because we will know how to do things that we currently want others to do for us, because we will experience life and death in ways that today we cannot even imagine. Let’s see how we can manage to get ready to live in a present in which there is no contradiction between running to get ahead of the change imposed on us and not being in a hurry because we require new forms of experiencing time, without productivism or guilt. Will we find ourselves in futures that are unthought of today? If so, it will be because we have gone together, through contagion, with a politics of the common and of conflict. Because we will have fought together” (172).
6 ⭐️ (sorry Goodreads) Thank you Amaia and Liz!
6 ⭐️ (sorry Goodreads) Thank you Amaia and Liz!
September 3, 2015
Las miradas ortodoxas de la economía, han dejado por fuera la participación y crítica de un sistema capitalista que excluye a hombres y en esta misma dinámica deja aún más por fuera a las mujeres; las diferentes miradas feministas a la economía son bastantes atractivas. Las interpretaciones contra-hegemónicas y la necesidad de una mirada desde la sostenibilidad de la vida ha dado el giro multidimensional que ha sido necesario durante mucho tiempo. Creer en la calidad de vida solamente cuando se acumula capital (agotando al planeta en si mismo),crecimiento mercantil como única función del "hombre mercantil" y diversas lógica socieconómicos son algunos elementos a cuestionar por la autora.
April 25, 2020
Un libro para subrayar, releer, llevar a las asambleas y discutir en conjunto.
Unas propuestas tan radicalmente sensatas que chocan con la (i)lógica del sistema socioeconómico actual para, efectivamente, subvertirlo.
"Transitamos; no ha lugar la pregunta de si optamos por la reforma o la revolución. Toda iniciativa camina ya hacia otro lugar."
Unas propuestas tan radicalmente sensatas que chocan con la (i)lógica del sistema socioeconómico actual para, efectivamente, subvertirlo.
"Transitamos; no ha lugar la pregunta de si optamos por la reforma o la revolución. Toda iniciativa camina ya hacia otro lugar."
January 3, 2023
Escribe de cuestiones complejas -y necesarias-, pero en forma generosa. Un libro de cabecera para poder pensar críticamente eso que llamamos trabajo, en clave feminista con foco en la sostenibilidad de la vida.
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