Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy: Latin America and India

This book explores women-led grass-root initiatives that challenge the patriarchal, financialized, and dehumanizing capitalist system and offer transformative, sustainable paths for feminist social change. Drawing on ethnographies in Latin America and India, it sheds light on womens daily struggles, difficulties, contradictions, fragilities, and successes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This book makes a significant contribution to ongoing discussions on the challenges of resistance and transformative changes in the face of global ecological, economic, social, and democratic crises. Amidst the crisis of social reproduction, poverty, and escalating inequalities, numerous women-led grassroots initiatives are emerging. These initiatives are reimagining social reproduction, redefining the concept of work and value, exploring innovative economic and political approaches, fostering solidarity-based social relationships, and challenging the patriarchal, financialized, and dehumanizing capitalist system. By doing so, these initiatives offer transformative and sustainable pathways for feminist social change.

Drawing from detailed ethnographies in Latin America and India, this book provides a profound insight into the daily struggles, difficulties, contradictions, fragilities, and remarkable successes of women. It serves as a catalyst for activists, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of feminism and solidarity economy to actively contribute to amplifying the movement, which is built upon the convergence of diverse initiatives.

Weight: 389g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030715335
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021