A feminist perspective on the battle over property

Abstract

A reinvigorated battle over property is taking place in the midst of the pandemic. Without making hasty grandiose pronouncements about what comes next, we want to think about what is already happening, how the future is being manufactured. Our hypothesis is that feminism provides us with fundamental elements for intervening in the current debate about property, among which we propose three ideas. First, that we are witnessing a new intensification of property violence, precisely because property becomes visible as the border that each conflict must cross in the pandemic. Second, this debate is focused on the territories of social reproduction and over the command of future labour that household debt seeks to control. Third, that in this crisis the division between property owners and the property-less is widened through the logic of the family, which has been strongly challenged by the construction of feminist spatialities.