What are Latin American feminist movements teaching to feminist economics?

In recent years, Latin America was the scene of massive mobilizations in which the feminist movement has gained prominence. In 2019, the year before the start of the pandemic, the feminist tide flooded Bolivian, Ecuadorian, Chilean, Argentinean, and Colombian streets.

When the pandemic started, the feminist movement produced diagnoses and was able to visibilize for the great audience classic feminist economic concepts such us the relation between unpaid and paid work, the domestic place as a productive place, care as a political concept. Many of these classic concepts were first developed in the sixties and seventies by authors from Europe and the United States. These concepts have been transformed and tensioned from different locations of the Global South, and Latin America is an interesting example of how the social and feminist movements have contributed to these shifts.

How recent feminist movements are using old feminist economic concepts and updating them? What is new on the way they are thinking about: labor, care, time, and sustainability of life? What are the similarities and differences between feminist demands on the Global North and the Global South? What are the differences when thinking about the precarity of life or social reproduction aspects? Is it possible to produce global economic theory from the South?

SPEAKERS

Corina Rodríguez Enríquez – Argentina (CONICET- CIEPP/DAWN)
Alondra Carillo – Chile (Coordinadora Feminista 8 de marzo)
Mariana García Grisoni – Uruguay (Cooperativa de Trabajo Comuna
Diana Ávila Moreno – Colombia (Mesa de Economía Feminista)

This workshop aims to bring together scholars from different generations and origins (specially Europe and Latin America) to discuss these relevant topics for the new economic thinking. Young scholars will be encouraged to bring their own questions to the panel.

The workshop will have place during the Congress of Feminist Economics (CEF, for the Spanish acronym)*
Check (https://congresoeconomiafeminista.org/sobre-el-congreso/comites/).

This will be the 8th edition of the Congress and the first time to be held in Barcelona. Spain has a great tradition of feminist economists and many important scholars (such as Amaia Perez Orozco, Carmen Benerías, Yolanda Jubeto) are part of the academic committee of this Congress together with latinoamerican scholars (such as Cristina Carrasco, Corina Rodiguez, Flora Partenio). This workshop can be a great opportunity to get closer to this interesting community.