| dc.description.abstract | Written with a contemporary European context of economic, social and reproductive
crisis in mind, this thesis presents research about, from and for social movements that
struggle against precarity, austerity and capitalist accumulation. Based on accounts and
analyses of feminist-autonomist militant practice and networks, this research project
revolves around two terms: care and creativity. It maps out a historical-genealogical
shift from a paradigm of creativity (reflected in neoliberal governance as well as in
social movements of the decades before and after the millenium) to one oriented around
care (reflected in the neo-communitarian policy as well as practices of commoning that
arise with social and economic crisis in Europe).
Structured into three broad sections on work, organisation and governance, the
questions at stake here revolve around the possibilities and imaginaries of politics that
affirm care and creativity in relation to one another. On the level of work, this means
struggles within and against precarity, reproductive and illegalized work; on the level of
organisation, it means relating the figure of the network to that of the care chain and the
family, confronting new transnational forms of alliance and care; and on the level of
governance, it is the relation between neoliberalism and its new communitarian forms
that is in question.
What the collectives, campaigns and networks constituting the ‘field’ of this research
have in common is that they re-think the contemporary relations between autonomy and
heteronomy, the global and the situated, as well as macro- and micropolitics. Dwelling
on collective experiences and knowledges, this investigation takes care to articulate the
dimensions of subjectivity, relation and association with those of economy and
governance. Concerned and engaged with contexts of struggle and commoning in the
face of crisis politics, precarity and dispersed sociality, a methodology of militant
participatory-action research serves to map out contexts of practice in Spain, the UK
and Argentina as of 2010-2013. | en_US |
