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Labor, Debt, and Reproduction: The Feminist Strike as a Revolution of Everyday Life

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New Global Studies
From the journal New Global Studies Volume 14 Issue 2

Abstract

The international feminist strikes of 2017, 2018, and 2019 challenged the categories and imaginaries relating to what it means to disobey contemporary modes of exploitation. In this text, the author debates some of Joshua Clover’s theses from Riot. Strike. Riot. in light of feminist theories of the strike. She underscores the role that the reproductive sphere plays in the feminist strike while, at the same time, analyzing that sphere as a space for the expansion of contemporary forms of finance.

Keywords: debt; feminist strike; riots; financialization
Corresponding author: Lucía Cavallero, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, E-mail:

Liz Mason-Deese is the translator of this article.

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Published Online: 2020-07-13

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2020-0016
Keywords for this article
debt; feminist strike; riots; financialization

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editors’ Forum
  3. Introduction: The Global Riot
  4. The Feminist Strike as Threshold
  5. Riot, Strike, Commune: Gendering a Civil War
  6. Labor, Debt, and Reproduction: The Feminist Strike as a Revolution of Everyday Life
  7. “We Were Like Slaves, All Women. But We Won’t Come Back.” On the Rebellions Sparked by the Disappearance of the Hacienda in an Afro-Ecuadorian Community
  8. Queering the Protest’s Temporalities
  9. Collective Violence and Politics in Argentina
  10. Trans-border Friendships and Strategic Inclinations: Some Insights on the Molecular Emergence of Subversion in Chile
  11. Protest and the City: On Object, Affect and Vulnerability
  12. Crossed Wires in the Motor City: A Genealogy and Analysis of the 1967 Riots and the 1968 Strike Wave in Detroit
  13. Containing the Surplus Rebellion: Prison Strike/Prison Riot
  14. Review Essay
  15. Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier eds. Global History, Globally: Research and Practice around the World; John Harrison and Michael Hoyler eds. Doing Global Urban Research; Eve Darian-Smith and Philip McCarty. The Global Turn: Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies
  16. Book Reviews
  17. Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines
  18. The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering
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