Women without Borders: Community Experiences of Caring for Life in Pueblos Unidos

Abstract

This article develops and analyzes the community process supported by women from the Pueblos Unidos neighborhood of the city of Córdoba, making a brief contextual introduction about how women organized in different territories are the ones who directly challenge democracy through processes of struggle and conquest of rights.

To achieve this, first of all, we account for the development of the popular economy, defined together with Coelho (2016) as a social, political and economic phenomenon of resistance to neoliberal policies, on the part of workers. In Argentina, the popular economy emerged during the '90s and was finally established, compared to the socio-historical situation of 2001.

Along these lines, we return to the data from the National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods, to make visible how those who suffer the most from the consequences of precariousness and lack of access to basic rights and services in popular neighborhoods are women, dissidents and children.

Finally, we delve into the experience of a community process supported by women from the Pueblos Unidos neighborhood of the city of Córdoba, which explains how the collective organization makes visible the violation of rights that puts neighbors who are experiencing situations of gender violence.