The Political Economy of Women’s Resistance

Abstract

Social reproduction and care provide a potent frame for activists in contemporary feminist politics of resistance, articulated perhaps most-powerfully in the Women’s Strike. This panel showcases how issues of social reproduction are taken up in various local struggles, but also opens up the debate to broader political economies of activism and resistance. It explores how social reproduction thinking fuels opposition against capitalism among movements and unions in Spain and Italy, and it highlights how care becomes political in the opposition to extractivism and militarization in Türkiye and Balochistan. The panel also brings into view how political economies shape movements, for example how economic collapse hinders organizing in Lebanon while international funding circumscribes what becomes possible. But movements also have their own resources, including cultural references and symbolic gestures: as reviewed in one of the papers, Black women in Brazil and the US practice a kind of “feminist marronage” to build a movement and connections.

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Feminist Marronage: Fieldnotes on Abscondence	View Paper Details
Between Development and Dispossession: Baloch Women's Labor and Resistance in Balochistan, Pakistan	View Paper Details
Care, Resistance, and Patriarchal Hegemony: A Critical Feminist Political Economy of Women’s Grassroots Struggles in Türkiye	View Paper Details
The Political Economy of Feminist Organizing in Lebanon during the economic crisis (2019 - 2022)	View Paper Details
Bringing Anti-Capitalism Back In. Framings of feminist advocacy and issues	View Paper Details