Next Tuesday 27th in Buenos Aires, as part of the Week of Action against G20 and IMF, DAWN organizes the School of feminist economics: Narratives and Resistance against financial capitalism and Corporate Power. Access to goods and services, digital economy and gender equality, financial capitalism, corporate capture and feminist resistance will be among the topics of discussion. More than 200 women, feminists, LGBTQI from the region, specially from Argentina, applied for the school, and this shows the need for this kind of activities, highlights Corina Rodríguez, feminist economist and executive member of DAWN.

This school is part of the social mobilizing actions of DAWN to resist neoliberalism at a global level. In 2017, during the 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, feminist organizations created the Feminist Forum as a space of resistance. There it was discussed the need for a better understanding of global economic processes, what are their links with everyday life and how do they reproduce inequalities. The school is a way to address this need, explains Corina Rodríguez.

She thinks that the great contribution of feminist economics was to recover historical feminist discussions for economic analysis: to put attention to economic relations from micro to macro level that shape development models and that have clear effects in our lives, in terms of employment, inequality and public policies addressing violence against women. “Feminist economics shows all these linkages so as everybody can understand them”, says Corina.

Although orthodox economics resists this approach, feminist economics has grown in the region as a knowledge area, together with the growing of feminist movements in Latin America. In the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires it started five years ago a course on economy and gender that each year has more applications: people are searching for heterodox approaches, assures Corina.

The School of Feminist Economics, next week, is an answer to part of these demands. DAWN will organize and support this kind of actions, as economic knowledge is key for feminist action.