Lecture by Lucía Cavallero • FEMINIST STRUGGLES AGAINST THE AUTHORITARIANISM OF FINANCIAL FREEDOM

Beschreibung

Abstract

In this presentation, Lucía Cavallero discusses her latest book, in which she analyses how finance governs the life of the majorities in the name of freedom. The author shows how the notion of freedom is central to contemporary financial capitalism, driven by the new right and led by corporations that concentrate wealth in algorithmic and extractivist forms.

Based on her most recent research, developed in the context of Argentina and Latin America, Cavallero examines the intertwining of neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and anti-feminism, which finds in the so-called ‘financial freedom’ a fetish concept, both grandiloquent and perverse expression, amid accelerating impoverishment and social cruelty.

Lastly, she will address the struggles of the Argentinian transfeminist movement facing the rise of the far right and their resistance in defence of other forms of life, community and freedom.

The presentation will be given in Spanish and translated with consecutive interpretation to English.

MODERATION: Lucie Naudé, Lina Theresa Schmid (IPW, University of Vienna)

Lucía Cavallero is a sociologist and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. Her research focuses among other topics on debt and gender. She is an activist within Ni Una Menos, a feminist movement that struggles against gender-based violence. She is co-author of “A Feminist Reading of Debt” and “The Home as Laboratory: Finance, Housing, and Feminist Struggle”.

The lecture is organised by the research group Gender and Politics (IPW).

No registration needed.

Veranstalter

Institut für Poltitikwissenschaft/Universität Wien, Forschungsgruppe Geschlecht und Politik

Kontakt

Sophia Krauss
IPW/Gender and Politics
+43-1-4277-49428
sophia.krauss(at)univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Mittwoch, 15. April 2026, 16:51
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 20. April 2026, 08:58