Liz Mason-Deese
Biographic Data
| ID | 150960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Mason-Deese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason-Deese |
| SIGNATURE | MASON-DEESE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mary Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Pandemic as Financial Laboratory
COVID-19 quarantine measures impacted incomes, labour and housing situations in different ways, particularly in the domestic sphere. In Argentina, “financial inclusion” polices” were linked, on one hand to the “bankarization” of new sectors to access relief funds, and on the other to the proliferation of fintech to mediate the receipt of funds. Debt, as a way of privatizing the crisis in the ability to eat, protect and heal oneself, solves emerge…
A Year After Legalization, Argentina’s Abortion Activists Turn Fight to Unequal Access: The historic vote to decriminalize abortion was a landmark in the country and the region. Yet obstacles remain t…
Ecofeminist Degrowth for Sustaining Buen Convivir
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A Feminist Reading of Debt
In this sharp intervention, authors Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction. Exploring the link between financial activity and the rise of conservative forces in Latin America, the book demonstrates that debt is intimately linked to gendered violence and patriarchal notion…
Cities in Flux
From Singapore to New York, via New Delhi, Johannesburg, London, Glasgow and Buenos Aires, “Cities in Flux” registers some of the most profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities around the world. Narrated in different styles, the individual pieces draw on theories of global cities in neoliberal times as well as on the phenomenological truths of inhabiting these disparate places bound together by a global crisis. The pieces make use of a …
Notes on Essential Labor
The pandemic exposes (and leaves us exposed to) the totality of capital; its most intricate and subterranean links come to light. The extractivist push and its relation to Indigenous genocide in the Amazon, as well as its direct effect on the financialization of land in cities’ poorest neighborhoods becomes apparent. It also becomes clear how the precarization of labor manages to extend working days in a way that relaunches the silent war that Ma…
Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies
In Neoliberalism from Below-first published in Argentina in 2014-Veronica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada in Buenos Aires as a point of departure, Gago shows how alternative economic practices, suc…
Notes for an Anti-racist Feminism in the Wake of the Migrant Caravans
This essay presents a retrospective analysis of the experience of the migrant caravans that crossed Mesoamerica to the United States, using their bodies to defy the necropolitical border regime of states in the region. These caravans were a specific type of migrant struggle, led by families attempting to preserve life through their displacement. The text is an exercise of reflection based on accompanying the caravan on the ground and through cybe…
Feminist International: How to Change Everything
From Finance to Bodies
Since the organization of the first international feminist strikes, Argentina's feminist movement has used the method of the assembly to produce analyses of the relationship and interconnection between sexist violence and economic violence. As part of that political process, in May 2017, the feminist movement convened a mobilization, with the slogan "We Want Ourselves Alive, Free, and Debt Free" in the doorways of the Central Bank to denounce the…
Anti-racist Feminism or Barbarism
In September 2017, feminist assemblies began meeting on the eighth day of each month in multiple cities and towns across Spain to prepare for the feminist strike in the country. That same fall, the trial is held for the "wolf pack," the gang rape that occurred during the festival of San Fermín in 2016: once again, the woman who was raped is put on trial, and not the rapists. With the slogans, "I believe you" and "Listen, sister, here is your pack…
From Point Zero to the Future
This text seeks to describe the territories of the favelas as a fertile ground for the birth of organizational forms that can strengthen struggles toward an emancipated society, in which life is free. It aims to trace the trajectory of resistance in those territories, the occupations, and evictions that shaped and continue shaping them. It highlights the feminized bodies in struggle against forced evictions of communities or carrying out occupati…
A Changing Tide in Argentina: Mauricio Macri’s election was supposed to herald the end of the Pink Tide and the rise of the Right in Latin America. After a disastrous mandate marked by deep austerity …
Demonstrators join a march under the banner “Bread and Work” in Buenos Aires on May 25, 2018. (CECILIA GARCIA)Four years ago, Mauricio Macri’s election as president of Argentina appeared to mark th
Producing territory: Territorial organizing of movements in Buenos Aires
In this paper we analyze the territorial organizing of two dissimilar social movements across Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce territory as a key element of their political practice. Through their relational, contested character, these Latin American territories foreground an alternative to state-centric, Anglo-American models of territorial politics. First, the unemployed workers' movements in the urban periphery show ho…
Critical Times / The Earth Trembles
This text shows how the strike has been appropriated and reinvented by feminist movements to politicize the problem of violence against women and to link it to broader social, economic, and political issues. It underscores how a wide variety of unexpected alliances and coalitions have been enabled by the strike and how they have multiplied its impacts and meanings. This political process has involved efforts to forge a new internationalism, with …
The Strategy of Flight
The article criticizes the way in which the perspective of trafficking employs the label of “slave labor” in Argentine to refer to migrant workers in textile workshops. This label constructs the figure of the migrant as the perfect victim and moralizes migrants’ action, while legitimizing the inexorably paternalistic work of NGOs, funding streams, and rhetoric. To critique such a perspective, the author makes two counterpoints. On the one hand, s…
Women's Struggle against All Violence in Mexico
In this essay, based on two concrete acts of violence against women in Mexico, I propose to link such violence with the counterinsurgency war against the people of Mexico in which, as a society, we have been immersed for more than a decade. Departing from that linkage, I propose the key to interdependence for the understanding of the triangular amalgam of patriarchal, capitalist, and colonial violence in which we deploy our struggles
Strike as Process
This article approaches the March 8 women’s strike as a kaleidoscope displaying the complexity of the rupture among different “feminisms.” Within this complex rupture, the figure of the strike, understood as an action, question, and process, was essential, as it turned into a space for a multiplicity of struggles and acts of meaning-making. In this space, the call for an international women’s strike effectuated a series of moves: rupture with res…
March 8
March 8, 2017, was an important event in the emergence of the women’s struggle, and if we follow its glimmers, they can illuminate the practices of resistance and the challenges that arise. Its eruption has opened up both a field of conversations in the search for understanding, as well as difficult battles over the event’s meanings. My point of departure for analyzing March 8 is to take the struggle as an interpretative key, as one event within …
WeStrike
Research Article| July 01 2018 #WeStrike: Notes toward a Political Theory of the Feminist Strike Verónica Gago Verónica Gago Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (3): 660–669. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-6942233 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Verónica Gago; #WeStrike: Notes toward a Political Theory of the Feminist Str…
Territories in contestation: Relational power in Latin America
Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America. Territory, Politics, Governance. Situated in geography’s recent territorial (re)turn, and drawing on Latin American theory and research, this paper examines the relational and contested nature of territories and territorial praxis. Engaging with contemporary literatures, we note the centrality of power to territory. However, as we explore in this paper, many analyses of power are too…
Territories in contestation: Relational power in Latin America
Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America. Territory, Politics, Governance. Situated in geography’s recent territorial (re)turn, and drawing on Latin American theory and research, this paper examines the relational and contested nature of territories and territorial praxis. Engaging with contemporary literatures, we note the centrality of power to territory. However, as we explore in this paper, many analyses of power are too…
Producing territory: Territorial organizing of movements in Buenos Aires
In this paper we analyze the territorial organizing of two dissimilar social movements across Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce territory as a key element of their political practice. Through their relational, contested character, these Latin American territories foreground an alternative to state-centric, Anglo-American models of territorial politics. First, the unemployed workers' movements in the urban periphery show ho…
WeStrike
Research Article| July 01 2018 #WeStrike: Notes toward a Political Theory of the Feminist Strike Verónica Gago Verónica Gago Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (3): 660–669. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-6942233 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Verónica Gago; #WeStrike: Notes toward a Political Theory of the Feminist Str…
Ecofeminist Degrowth for Sustaining Buen Convivir
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Strategy of Flight
The article criticizes the way in which the perspective of trafficking employs the label of “slave labor” in Argentine to refer to migrant workers in textile workshops. This label constructs the figure of the migrant as the perfect victim and moralizes migrants’ action, while legitimizing the inexorably paternalistic work of NGOs, funding streams, and rhetoric. To critique such a perspective, the author makes two counterpoints. On the one hand, s…
Notes on Essential Labor
The pandemic exposes (and leaves us exposed to) the totality of capital; its most intricate and subterranean links come to light. The extractivist push and its relation to Indigenous genocide in the Amazon, as well as its direct effect on the financialization of land in cities’ poorest neighborhoods becomes apparent. It also becomes clear how the precarization of labor manages to extend working days in a way that relaunches the silent war that Ma…
Notes for an Anti-racist Feminism in the Wake of the Migrant Caravans
This essay presents a retrospective analysis of the experience of the migrant caravans that crossed Mesoamerica to the United States, using their bodies to defy the necropolitical border regime of states in the region. These caravans were a specific type of migrant struggle, led by families attempting to preserve life through their displacement. The text is an exercise of reflection based on accompanying the caravan on the ground and through cybe…
From Finance to Bodies
Since the organization of the first international feminist strikes, Argentina's feminist movement has used the method of the assembly to produce analyses of the relationship and interconnection between sexist violence and economic violence. As part of that political process, in May 2017, the feminist movement convened a mobilization, with the slogan "We Want Ourselves Alive, Free, and Debt Free" in the doorways of the Central Bank to denounce the…
From Point Zero to the Future
This text seeks to describe the territories of the favelas as a fertile ground for the birth of organizational forms that can strengthen struggles toward an emancipated society, in which life is free. It aims to trace the trajectory of resistance in those territories, the occupations, and evictions that shaped and continue shaping them. It highlights the feminized bodies in struggle against forced evictions of communities or carrying out occupati…
Women's Struggle against All Violence in Mexico
In this essay, based on two concrete acts of violence against women in Mexico, I propose to link such violence with the counterinsurgency war against the people of Mexico in which, as a society, we have been immersed for more than a decade. Departing from that linkage, I propose the key to interdependence for the understanding of the triangular amalgam of patriarchal, capitalist, and colonial violence in which we deploy our struggles
Strike as Process
This article approaches the March 8 women’s strike as a kaleidoscope displaying the complexity of the rupture among different “feminisms.” Within this complex rupture, the figure of the strike, understood as an action, question, and process, was essential, as it turned into a space for a multiplicity of struggles and acts of meaning-making. In this space, the call for an international women’s strike effectuated a series of moves: rupture with res…
March 8
March 8, 2017, was an important event in the emergence of the women’s struggle, and if we follow its glimmers, they can illuminate the practices of resistance and the challenges that arise. Its eruption has opened up both a field of conversations in the search for understanding, as well as difficult battles over the event’s meanings. My point of departure for analyzing March 8 is to take the struggle as an interpretative key, as one event within …
Territories in contestation: Relational power in Latin America
Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America. Territory, Politics, Governance. Situated in geography’s recent territorial (re)turn, and drawing on Latin American theory and research, this paper examines the relational and contested nature of territories and territorial praxis. Engaging with contemporary literatures, we note the centrality of power to territory. However, as we explore in this paper, many analyses of power are too…
Critical Times / The Earth Trembles
This text shows how the strike has been appropriated and reinvented by feminist movements to politicize the problem of violence against women and to link it to broader social, economic, and political issues. It underscores how a wide variety of unexpected alliances and coalitions have been enabled by the strike and how they have multiplied its impacts and meanings. This political process has involved efforts to forge a new internationalism, with …
The Strategy of Flight
The article criticizes the way in which the perspective of trafficking employs the label of “slave labor” in Argentine to refer to migrant workers in textile workshops. This label constructs the figure of the migrant as the perfect victim and moralizes migrants’ action, while legitimizing the inexorably paternalistic work of NGOs, funding streams, and rhetoric. To critique such a perspective, the author makes two counterpoints. On the one hand, s…
Women's Struggle against All Violence in Mexico
In this essay, based on two concrete acts of violence against women in Mexico, I propose to link such violence with the counterinsurgency war against the people of Mexico in which, as a society, we have been immersed for more than a decade. Departing from that linkage, I propose the key to interdependence for the understanding of the triangular amalgam of patriarchal, capitalist, and colonial violence in which we deploy our struggles
Strike as Process
This article approaches the March 8 women’s strike as a kaleidoscope displaying the complexity of the rupture among different “feminisms.” Within this complex rupture, the figure of the strike, understood as an action, question, and process, was essential, as it turned into a space for a multiplicity of struggles and acts of meaning-making. In this space, the call for an international women’s strike effectuated a series of moves: rupture with res…
March 8
March 8, 2017, was an important event in the emergence of the women’s struggle, and if we follow its glimmers, they can illuminate the practices of resistance and the challenges that arise. Its eruption has opened up both a field of conversations in the search for understanding, as well as difficult battles over the event’s meanings. My point of departure for analyzing March 8 is to take the struggle as an interpretative key, as one event within …
WeStrike
Research Article| July 01 2018 #WeStrike: Notes toward a Political Theory of the Feminist Strike Verónica Gago Verónica Gago Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2018) 117 (3): 660–669. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-6942233 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Verónica Gago; #WeStrike: Notes toward a Political Theory of the Feminist Str…
A Changing Tide in Argentina: Mauricio Macri’s election was supposed to herald the end of the Pink Tide and the rise of the Right in Latin America. After a disastrous mandate marked by deep austerity …
Demonstrators join a march under the banner “Bread and Work” in Buenos Aires on May 25, 2018. (CECILIA GARCIA)Four years ago, Mauricio Macri’s election as president of Argentina appeared to mark th
Producing territory: Territorial organizing of movements in Buenos Aires
In this paper we analyze the territorial organizing of two dissimilar social movements across Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce territory as a key element of their political practice. Through their relational, contested character, these Latin American territories foreground an alternative to state-centric, Anglo-American models of territorial politics. First, the unemployed workers' movements in the urban periphery show ho…
Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies
In Neoliberalism from Below-first published in Argentina in 2014-Veronica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada in Buenos Aires as a point of departure, Gago shows how alternative economic practices, suc…
Notes for an Anti-racist Feminism in the Wake of the Migrant Caravans
This essay presents a retrospective analysis of the experience of the migrant caravans that crossed Mesoamerica to the United States, using their bodies to defy the necropolitical border regime of states in the region. These caravans were a specific type of migrant struggle, led by families attempting to preserve life through their displacement. The text is an exercise of reflection based on accompanying the caravan on the ground and through cybe…
Feminist International: How to Change Everything
From Finance to Bodies
Since the organization of the first international feminist strikes, Argentina's feminist movement has used the method of the assembly to produce analyses of the relationship and interconnection between sexist violence and economic violence. As part of that political process, in May 2017, the feminist movement convened a mobilization, with the slogan "We Want Ourselves Alive, Free, and Debt Free" in the doorways of the Central Bank to denounce the…
Anti-racist Feminism or Barbarism
In September 2017, feminist assemblies began meeting on the eighth day of each month in multiple cities and towns across Spain to prepare for the feminist strike in the country. That same fall, the trial is held for the "wolf pack," the gang rape that occurred during the festival of San Fermín in 2016: once again, the woman who was raped is put on trial, and not the rapists. With the slogans, "I believe you" and "Listen, sister, here is your pack…
From Point Zero to the Future
This text seeks to describe the territories of the favelas as a fertile ground for the birth of organizational forms that can strengthen struggles toward an emancipated society, in which life is free. It aims to trace the trajectory of resistance in those territories, the occupations, and evictions that shaped and continue shaping them. It highlights the feminized bodies in struggle against forced evictions of communities or carrying out occupati…
A Feminist Reading of Debt
In this sharp intervention, authors Lucí Cavallero and Verónica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction. Exploring the link between financial activity and the rise of conservative forces in Latin America, the book demonstrates that debt is intimately linked to gendered violence and patriarchal notion…
Cities in Flux
From Singapore to New York, via New Delhi, Johannesburg, London, Glasgow and Buenos Aires, “Cities in Flux” registers some of the most profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities around the world. Narrated in different styles, the individual pieces draw on theories of global cities in neoliberal times as well as on the phenomenological truths of inhabiting these disparate places bound together by a global crisis. The pieces make use of a …
Notes on Essential Labor
The pandemic exposes (and leaves us exposed to) the totality of capital; its most intricate and subterranean links come to light. The extractivist push and its relation to Indigenous genocide in the Amazon, as well as its direct effect on the financialization of land in cities’ poorest neighborhoods becomes apparent. It also becomes clear how the precarization of labor manages to extend working days in a way that relaunches the silent war that Ma…
The Pandemic as Financial Laboratory
COVID-19 quarantine measures impacted incomes, labour and housing situations in different ways, particularly in the domestic sphere. In Argentina, “financial inclusion” polices” were linked, on one hand to the “bankarization” of new sectors to access relief funds, and on the other to the proliferation of fintech to mediate the receipt of funds. Debt, as a way of privatizing the crisis in the ability to eat, protect and heal oneself, solves emerge…
A Year After Legalization, Argentina’s Abortion Activists Turn Fight to Unequal Access: The historic vote to decriminalize abortion was a landmark in the country and the region. Yet obstacles remain t…
Ecofeminist Degrowth for Sustaining Buen Convivir
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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