Debt, Economic Violence and Feminist Agenda

Abstract

This chapter studies the scope and potential of the notion of economic violence, as a result of the operating logic of global financial capitalism, in order to explain the material basis of patriarchal violence. The macroeconomic processes and their incidence on material living conditions can be observed through the lens of economic violence. This way it is possible to recognize the systemic nature of patriarchal violence, and therefore, to better articulate social resistance. With that context, the author offers an analysis of the notions of debt sustainability and life sustainability, as well as reflections linked to the feminist resistance to indebtedness, which include, according to the author, collective organization to denounce the systemic roots of indebtedness, and reporting its connection with economic violence.