Ecofeminist Degrowth for Sustaining <i>Buen Convivir</i>

Orozco, Amaia Pérez; Mason-Deese, Liz

doi:10.1017/hyp.2022.16

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“…Nor does the programme, paradoxically, put life at the centre: it works at the expense of the material and emotional resources of the social workers. They, as individuals, end up being responsible for the outcomes of the programme, reinforcing a weak and disaffected state role, neglectful, focused on goals rather than processes – an issue also identified in other contexts where managerialism has affected the professional intervention of social workers (Baines, 2017; Garrett, 2021; Ioakimidis, 2021; Pollack & Rossiter, 2010; Weinberg & Banks, 2019, among others). The findings of this study suggest that the patriarchal dimension of capitalism is reinforced by holding women (Federici, 2004; Giaconi, 2021), and ‘women taking care of women’, as Marcela (43) put it.…”

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“…Challenging coloniality and patriarchy by creating resistances that put life at the centre means also reshaping our linksentangling ourselves in shared experienceand expanding the web of caring connections, containment, and constant support, in a formation of a sense of communitywhich, as Latin American original peoples' worldviews have argued, is profoundly harmonious between humans and between humans and non-human live beings. Building coalitions to confront multiple oppressions, as Lugones (2021) argues, also means thinking of ourselves in a weaving of broader links with feminist, academic and activist movements and organisations not only locally, which recover the ancestral knowledge of our native peoples, but also with those decolonial feminist initiatives on a global scale (Curiel, 2015;Espinosa et al, 2014;Pérez-Orozco & Mason-Deese, 2022).…”

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“…In this article, we analyse the precariousness faced and the resistance exercised by women social workers in the implementation of a state mental health programme aimed to monitor and support impoverished, racialised women's adherence to mental health treatment. Drawing upon social work scholars' contributions to the study of professional resistance (Baines, 2017(Baines, , 2020Carey & Foster, 2011;Fine & Teram, 2013;Strier & Bershtling, 2016;Wallace & Pease, 2011;Weinberg & Banks, 2019, among others), we propose in this article to look at women social workers' professional resistance from the perspective of decolonial feminism and the approaches of sustainability of life (Carrasco, 2003) and feminised resistance (Motta, 2013), which have emerged as conceptual tools to comprehend the feminisation of poverty from patriarchal-colonial oppressions affecting women and dissident sexual orientations and non-hegemonic gender identities in the global south (Mohanty, 2010;Motta, 2018;Pérez-Orozco & Mason-Deese, 2022). This research is based on the assumption that despite the aspirations of scientific objectivity and political neutrality that since its origins and especially during the dictatorship have founded Chilean social work education, there are practices of professional resistance underpinned by the values of feminism that lead to a 'border' professional bonda liminal space in Lugones' (2021) wordsthat contains powerful strengths to challenge the everyday expressions of patriarchal-colonial capitalism in professional practice, but that are still silenced in the intellectual debates of academic social work in Chile.…”

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Decolonial Feminism and Practices of Resistance to Sustain Life: Experiences of Women Social Workers Implementing Mental Health Programmes in Chile

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Duboy-Luengo

2023

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Feminisms have had a significant impact on social work discussions in Latin America in recent decades. However, the gap between academic discussions and professional practice remains wide. Based on a qualitative study that included 69 semi-structured interviews with social workers in Chile, in this article, we focus the analysis on the experiences of women social workers implementing mental health programmes. These are women – professionals facing extremely precarious working conditions – who work with other women who, while below the poverty line, are users of state health policy. The findings suggest that in these highly precarious spaces, the division between professional and the user is blurred, producing what feminist philosopher María Lugones calls ‘liminal space’. Professionals and users establish alliances and practices of resistance from that liminal space to challenge the oppressions they experience. Drawing upon a decolonial feminist perspective, we identify challenges for social work such as problematising professional bonds, incorporating structural readings of precariousness and feminised resistance, and repositioning the value of frontline social workers’ and users’ knowledge. We can learn from these women's experiences that question the deepest foundations of colonial and patriarchal capitalism still present in training and professional practice.

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Decolonial Feminism and Practices of Resistance to Sustain Life: Experiences of Women Social Workers Implementing Mental Health Programmes in Chile

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2023

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“…• Care economies, commoning care, caring masculinities, and interspecies care (Aulenbacher & Riegraf, 2018;Borowy & Aillon, 2017;D'Alisa & Catteano, 2013;Dengler & Lang, 2022;Paulson et al, 2022(a); Paulson et al, 2022(b)\; Tummers & MacGregor, 2019;Winker, 2015) • Crises (war, anthropocene, COVID) (Bahn, Cohen & Rodgers, 2020;Bock, 2021;FaDA, 2020a;FaDA, 2020b;Raworth, 2014;Riquito, 2021;Paulson, 2022;Paulson, 2020) • Decolonial, intersectional, and global south approaches (Abazeri, 2022;Dengler & Seebacher, 2019, Mehta & Harcourt, 2021Nirmal & Rocheleau, 2019;Paulson, 2021;Pietilä, 2006, Salleh, 2020Svampa, 2015) • Design, technology, and practical innovations (Bell et al, 2020;Gaziulusoy & Houtbeckers, 2018;Houtbeckers & Gaziulusoy, 2019;Kawgan-Kagan, 2015;Paulson, 2022;White, 2020) • Ecofeminisms (Pérez Orozco & Mason-Deese, 2022;Perkins, 2019;Picardi et al, 2022;Saave, 2022;Salleh, 2017) • Gender and political economic systems (Andreucci et al, 2019;Akbulut, 2021;Barca et al, 2019;…”

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Why are feminist perspectives, analyses, and actions vital to degrowth?

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Feminist analyses of the historical dynamics of gender systems are fundamental to the work of challenging growth-driven political economies, and of designing more equitable and balanced ecosocial systems. Feminist theories and methods that acknowledge and support diverse voices, knowledges, and practices are vital resources for building on heterodox degrowth movements. In dialogue with postcolonial, decolonial, indigenous, and anti-racist efforts, intersectional feminisms have been unlearning and disrupting conventional politics of knowing and action in ways that help forge more inclusive understandings and applications necessary for degrowth futures.

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