ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on how the massive mobilization of women around the strikes that took place in Latin America in 2017 and 2018 speaks of a new social articulation that imposes limits on extractivism and on the financialization of the economy in all spheres of value production, and fights against a system that shows contempt for the female body. It also points towards alternatives for the production of new ways of understanding the urban economy that are fuelled by struggles around reproduction. The chapter discusses the theoretical contributions and experiences of Latin America, which provide a particular lens through which to understand the urban economy. It seeks to link the feminization of politics to the continent’s long-standing struggles against neoliberal dispossession which have, at different moments in recent history, imposed limits on the voracity of capital and produced new spaces for the commons.
