{"product_id":"the-home-as-laboratory-finance-housing-and-feminist-struggle-paperback","title":"The Home as Laboratory: Finance, Housing, and Feminist Struggle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLuci Cavallero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eVerónica Gago\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLiz Mason-Deese\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe home has become a laboratory for capital but also for forms of financial disobedience. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt has become increasingly clear that home is not a site of private life and isolation, but a battleground where the conflict over the reorganization of working days, over what even counts as labor, is waged. In the very spaces that capital historically sought to portray as an \"unproductive\" and apolitical space, and refused to pay for, now emerge new forms of debt and profit extraction. Although the home has been transformed into a favored site of finance's colonization of social life and of experimentation for capital, this is not a finished process-or one without its resistance. \u003ci\u003eThe Home as Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e traces this story through the links between debt and financial technologies, the violence of property, and reproductive and feminized labor, and everyday forms of feminist organizing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on militant research and interventions with feminist organizers in informal settlements and renters' organizations in Buenos Aires, Luci Cavallero, Veróoacute;nica Gago, and Liz Mason-Deese offer a powerful feminist methodology that points to the vital space of the home as an open dispute. They critically analyze the changes that have occurred in domestic routines, in labor dynamics, in the very cuts imposed by the pandemic's reorganization of the sensible and of logistics. Thus, the home--its spatiality, functioning, and dynamics--suffered from reconfigurations during these novel years of the COVID-19 pandemic that have not ended. Yet, these processes are also resisted by feminist organizations, which have put the question of debt at the forefront of alliance-building, political education, and public interventions. \u003ci\u003eThe Home as Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e provides key insights into transformations in the home leading up to and during the pandemic, showing how what was historically considered an \"unproductive space\" became a crucial laboratory for capital and new financial technologies. Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago, and Liz Mason-Deese analyze how the home has become a site of battles over what work is considered essential, the intensification of paid and unpaid work, often at the same time, the expansion of new forms of financial extraction, and multiple and interconnected forms of violence. But, importantly, by highlighting the research and action of feminist and housing organizations, they also demonstrate how these processes are being resisted on a daily basis.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVerónica Gago\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eFeminist International: How to Change Everything\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Feminist Reading of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e, with Lucí Cavallero. She is a leader in Argentina's #NiUnaMenos movement (Not One More!), as both a theoretician and an activist. She is a Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Professor at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and Assistant Researcher at the National Council of Research (CONICET). Her work is deeply influenced by active participation in the experience of Colectivo Situaciones, whose \u003ci\u003e19 and 20 \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGenocide in the Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e recorded the Argentine social movements around the 2001 debt crisis with remarkable acuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucía Cavallero \u003c\/b\u003eis coauthor of \u003ci\u003eA Feminist Reading of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e, withVerónica Gago. She has a PhD in Social Science, is a researcher at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and member of the feminist collective Ni Una Menos. Her research focuses on debt and gender. She teaches in the gender studies masters program at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. She is also the coauthor in Spanish of\u003ci\u003e ¿Quien Le Debe A Quien? Ensayos Transnacionales De Desobediencia Financiera, \u003c\/i\u003e with Silvia Federici and Verónica Gago (Tinta Limón 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiz Mason-Deese\u003c\/b\u003e holds a PhD in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective, the Viewpoint Magazine Editorial Collective, and the translation collective Territorio de Ideas. Among other works, she has translated \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/i\u003e by Amaia Pérez Orozco (Common Notions, 2022), \u003ci\u003eA Feminist Reading of Debt\u003c\/i\u003e by Luci Cavallero and Verónica Gago (Pluto Press, 2021), and \u003ci\u003eFeminist International: How to Change Everything\u003c\/i\u003e by Verónica Gago (Verso Books, 2020). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45597669031980,"sku":"9781945335075","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/the-home-as-laboratory-finance-housing-and-feminist-struggle-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}