Intervenciones feministas anti-punitivas sobre cuidado de sí y de lxs otrxs en pandemia

This paper examines the public interventions of feminist activists and intellectuals who have warned of the increase in punitive practices of control and policing by the states – and by some segments of society– during the current health, economical, and political crisis. We claim that such a process, which has been structured around the discourse of self-care and the care of others, should be called into question politically. We explore the ways in which these interventions have been articulated, focusing on their critique of the overlap between care and punishment, in an attempt to elucidate the different forms of violence operating in such a juncture. We will concentrate on the ways in which the securitization of the discourse has proliferated in Latin America, especially in Argentina, as we survey the feminist strategies of resistance through alternative politics of feelings. In sum, we will show how feminism has been able to tap into different forms of imagination in order to think about care, immunity, danger, and dangerousness within this context, as forms of micropolitics aimed at disrupting both the “new normal” and the new domesticity.