Abstract

SOLIS, Cristina Vega. Social Reproduction and Care in the Reinvention of the Commons. Conceptual and Analytical Contributions from Feminisms. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2019, n.70, pp.49-63. ISSN 0123-885X.  https://doi.org/10.7440/res70.2019.05.

The text approaches the contributions of feminism, whose epicenter is the examination of reproductive and care work, to the paradigm of the commons. Starting from the initial contributions, from the north, of female Marxist authors who participated in the campaign for the Salary for Domestic Work and from the internationalist Ecofeminism of the Bielefeld thinkers, the elaborations move and interweave in the present with perspectives that arise from the south, specifically from Latin America. The text offers a journey in which the continuities and innovations with respect to prior analysis are underlined. Among the innovations, the examination of reproductive struggles are highlighted, with a focus on the reordering developed from the perspective of the popular economy. Additionally, other approaches are noted which underline the connection between the work on the sustenance of life and the defense of the territory, the repolitization of misogynist violence, the critique of the idealization of the communal, and the reformulation of the principal of communality starting from reproduction and care. The importance of the reproductive commons, elaborated from feminisms, represents a fundamental contribution at the moment of establishing a through line for the contemporary analysis and struggles.

Keywords : Care; commons; communality; feminism; reproductive work; social reproduction.

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