ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how social movements, and particularly the feminist movement in the city of Barcelona, have generated reassembling strategies in response to the process of disassemblage produced by capitalism and patriarchy in the period from the start of the economic crisis of 2008. It highlights the experience of some feminist collectives that have opened new pathways, such as the Vaga de totes – the Women’s strike, the Kellys, self-organized groups of shared childrearing and Col·lectiu Punt 6, a feminist urban planning cooperative. The chapter shows how capitalism is linked with patriarchy in the process of disassembling cities, social policies, and urban social fabric. In Barcelona, like in many other cities around the world, capitalist and neoliberal dynamics have shaped political decisions and city projects through many political mandates. Since the economic recession of 2008, the crisis particularly impacted women, and the central conservative government has been oblivious to women’s needs and rights.
