Mujeres Creando. El cuidado como maniobra ecológica de re-existencia

• Published in: Arte y políticas de identidad 2019-12, Vol.21, p.74-95
• Main Author: Caballero, Belén Romero
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Subjects: Capitalism; Human rights; Neoliberalism; Sustainability
• ISSN: 1889-979X; 1989-8452

This paper takes shape in the current socio-environmental context produced by the neoliberal hegemonic civilizational model, whose renewed extractivism perseveres in the dispossession and commodification of human and non-human life, subjecting social, economic, ecological and political relations to the logic of the more voracious capitalism. In the distribution of neoliberal restructuring, the tasks of caring for women throughout the planet have been essential, since they constitute one of the fundamental dimensions of the sustainability of life, that is, of social and ecosystemic reproduction. In spite of this, these tasks have been ignored and excluded by the patriarchal, colonial and capitalist system through the invisibility of both the subjects that carry them out, and the ecological interrelationship and interdependence that characterize our relationship with the world. From this diagnosis, the Bolivian collective Mujeres Creando maneuvers a decolonial visuality, that comes from an always updated ancestral memory, through different artistic and cultural practices that restore care in the center. Both to face the neo-extractive system that is presented as the panacea of development and modernization in the countries of the South, and for the claim and achievement of a series of human rights and citizenship.