Isabelle Guérin – Ladies, Growth and microfinance
Could 31, 2024 by Isabelle Guérin, Afrotopic
Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar & Govindan Venkatasubramanian, The Indebted Girl. Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism¸ Stanford College Press (California), 2023, 229 p. dont 13 pages de notes, 23 pages de bibliographie et un index de 11 pages. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=36559
This podcast, produced and recorded by Marie-Yemta Moussanang, explores the materialist feminist perspective by means of the work of Isabelle Guérin, socio-economic specialised within the political and ethical economic system of cash, debt and finance. Isabelle Guérin analyzes how the financialization of the economies of the SUDs generates new types of inequality and domination, stressing that the economic system doesn’t exist independently of social establishments, beliefs, requirements, and energy relations.
On this audio, by presenting us with a historic fresco of the varied moments of growth insurance policies, Isabelle Guérin highlights how these insurance policies reproduce and reconfigure energy relations, specifically between women and men, and between completely different social lessons in postcolonial contexts. The researcher explains the emergence of microcredit, the explanations for her “golden age” and the transformative penalties for populations in precarious conditions, who develop into customers depending on credit score for his or her important wants (entry to well being, education, meals, and so on.).
Lastly, Isabelle Guérin presents a chance method. By analyzing common and casual economies, it highlights their invisible character within the West regardless of their various potential. She illustrates, taking the instance of her analysis in Southern India, that these economies, typically inseparable from social relations and domination relationships, supply fashions to rethink the financial and the political, particularly within the occasion of a disaster. By working with collectives engaged in various consumption and manufacturing practices, it reveals that extra equitable and lasting types of financial group are attainable. This angle questions our imaginations and presents a extra holistic integration of financial manufacturing and social copy.
