Verónica Gago

Verónica Gago is a feminist militant and researcher in Argentina. She teaches political science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and critical theory and gender theory at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). She is an independent researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), and also part of GIIF (Group for Feminist Research and Intervention). She coordinates a working group about popular economies in Latin America at CLACSO (The Latin American Council of Social Sciences). She is a member of the radical collective press Tinta Limón. Her work has centered on the relations between feminism, neoliberalism and financialization of everyday life.

Gago is the author of Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (Duke University Press, 2017) and Feminist International (Verso 2020). She is the co-author of A Feminist Reading of Debt, with Luci Cavallero (Pluto Press 2021), among others collective volumes.

The ultra right war against social reproduction: a brief genealogy from Argentine

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I will argue about morality and cruelty to discuss how the far right in Argentine emerged as a challenge and reaction to the massiveness of grassroots feminist struggles (which, among other victories, won the legalization of abortion in December 2020). Thus we can understand the targeting of women and feminists responsible for community care in neighborhood soup kitchens as the opposite of “human capital” (the name of the new Ministry of Javier Milei`s government) as a way of promoting anti-feminism as a vector of reactionary politicization. Similarly, it attacks the popular economy for a reactive moralization of those who “live off” the state, producing the inversion of the scene that allows business people to not pay taxes and complain about public spending, while blaming the impoverished for the deficit.