She teaches political science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and is professor of sociology at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). She is an Independent Researcher at the National Council of Research (CONICET), and also part of GIIF (Group for Feminist Research and Intervention).
She is co-coordinator, since 2016, of the Working Group “Popular Economies” at the Council of Latin American Social Sciences (CLACSO).
Gago is the author of Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (Duke University Press, 2017), Feminist International. How to change everything (Verso 2020), is co-author of A Feminist Reading of Debt, with Luci Cavallero (Pluto Press 2021) and of numerous articles published in journals and books throughout Latin America, Europe and the United States. Her books are translated in many languages.
She is a member of the independent radical collective press Tinta Limón. She is part of the scientific board of different academic journals: Critical Times (Berkeley University), Hypatia. A journal of feminist philosophy (Oregon University), Scripta Nova. Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales (Universidad de Barcelona), Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society (University of Chicago Press), Dialogues in Human Geography, (Sage Journals) and Revista Bajo el Volcán, (Benemérita Universidad de Puebla, México).
She was visiting professor and lecturer at different universities in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, United States, Germany, Chile, Brasil, Colombia, Perú and México.
1 | Education/Training
- 2015 : Researcher; Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Institute- National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET)
- 2012 : PhD Social Science, at the Universidad of Buenos Aires (UBA)
- 2000 : Undergraduate; Political Science, Social Science Department, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
2 | Professional experience
Visiting Professor
- Summer 2023 – Instructor at the International Summer School Critical Theory 2023. Radical Social Transformation, Critical Theory in Berlin, Humboldt-Universität & Freie Universität in collaboration with the New School for Social Research in New York. Berlin, Germany.
- Spring 2023 – Visiting Professor Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilization, KJCSC at New York University (NYU), New York, USA.
- Spring 2022 – Professeure invitée École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales– EHESS (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d-études sur les réflexivités – Fonds Yann Thomas), París, Francia.
- 2022 – Rosa Luxemburg Fellow at Institut für Gesellschaftsanalyse, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Berlin, Germany.
- 2020 – 2022 – Co-convener Popular Urban Economy Desk, Sheffield University.
- 2018 – Visiting Professor – Berkeley University, International Consortium of Critical Theory Program, San Francisco, California, USA.*
- 2017 – Visiting Professor Bologna Summer School on Global Studies and Critical Theory: A Sovereignty and Social Movements Seminar, Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, University of Bologna.
- 2016 – Visiting Scholar Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), University of Chicago, USA.
- 2016 – Visiting Scholar Contested Cities Program, Madrid, Spain.
Teaching
- Since 2021. Professor Master in Gender Studies and Politics, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero.
- Since 2019. Professor of the seminar “Feminist Economics: from social reproduction to debt”, PHD Program, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
- Since 2017. Professor at the Postgraduate Program in Political Studies, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
- Since 2016. Professor at Master in Social Economy, Universidad de General Sarmiento, Argentina.
- Since 2015: Professor at High Social Studies Institute (IDAES) – Universidad de San Martín, Argentina.
- Since 2003: Professor at Ciencia Política Department– Universidad de Buenos Aires.
3 | Most relevant publications
Books
Herrero, Yayo and Gago, Verónica (2023): Ecofeminismos. La sostenibilidad de la vida. Barcelona: Icaria.
Gago, Verónica (2023): Neoliberalismo dal basso. Economie barocche e pragmatica popolare. Napoli: Tamu Edizioni.
Gago, Verónica y Cavallero, Luci (2023): Der Haushalt als Versuchslabor Feministische Kämpfe um Mieten, Haus- und Heimarbeit, Vienna: European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies.
Gago, Verónica (2022): La potenza feminista. O il desiderio di cambiare tutto, Roma: Capovolte.
Federici, Silvia, Gago, Verónica y Cavallero, Luci (2021): ¿Quién le debe a quién? Ensayos transnacionales de desobediencia financiera, Buenos Aires: Tinta Limón y F. Rosa Luxemburgo.
Gago, Verónica (2021): Für eine feministische Internationale. Wie wir alles verändern. Berlín: Unrast Verlag.
Gago, Verónica (2021): La puissance féministe. Ou le désir de tout changer. París: Editions Divergences.
Cavallero, Lucía y Gago, Verónica (2021): A feminist reading of debt. Londres: Pluto Press.
Gago, Verónica (2020): The feminist international. How to change everything. Londres-NY: Verso.
Gago, Verónica (2020): Économies populaires et luttes feministes. París: Raisons d´Agir.
Cavallero, Lucía y Gago, Verónica (2020): Una lettura femminista del debito. Roma: Ombre Corte.
Gago, Verónica (2020): A potência feminista, ou o desejo de transformar tudo. San Pablo: Elefante Editora.
Gago, Verónica (2019): La potencia feminista. O el deseo de cambiarlo todo. Edición en Argentina y España: Tinta Limón y Traficantes de Sueños. Ediciones en Perú y México: La Siniestra Editorial y Bajo Tierra.
Gago, Verónica (2017): Neoliberalism from below, Duke University Press, Durham, USA.
Gago, Verónica (2014): La razón neoliberal. Economías barrocas y pragmática popular, Buenos Aires: Tinta Limón. Ediciones en España (20115), Bolivia y Brasil (2018).
Books chapters
Gago, Verónica (2023). “Sur le désir de théorie du mouvement féministe”, in AAVV. Gagner le monde Sur quelques héritages féministes. La fabrique: Paris.
Gago, V. y Giorgi, G. (2022): “Notes on the Expressive Forms of the New Rights: A Dispute over the Subjectivity of the Majorities”, in Radical Right in the Global South, Pinheiro Machado, R. Y Vargas, T. (eds.), UK: Routledge.
Gago, V. (2022):“Neoliberalism in Latin America Sequences, Struggles, Institutions”, in The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms, Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind (eds.). London: Routledge.
Gago, V. (2022): “Foreword” in Global Authoritarianism. Perspectives and Contestations from the South. International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies. Berlín: transcript Verlages.
Gago, Verónica (2021). “Extraction”. Handbook of Marxism. London: Routledge.
Gago, Verónica (2021). “Néolibéralism vs. Féministes. Vivantes, libres et sans dette!” in Elsa Dorlin (coord). Feu, abécédaire des féminismes présents. Paris: Libertalia.
Gago, V. (2021): “¿Qué es la crítica al neoliberalismo?”, en Para una crítica del neoliberalismo. Foucault y Nacimiento de la biopolítica, Castro, R. y Chamorro, E. (eds.), Madrid: Lengua de Trapo.
Gago, V. (2021): “Feminismus, Pandemie und Sozialismus”, en Von Engels gelernt? Linke Utopien und emanzipatorische Praxis in Lateinamerika, AA.VV, Wuppertal: nahua script 19.
Cavallero, L. y Gago, V. (2021): “Neoliberalismo, deuda y revuelta feminista: claves de la conflictividad actual en Argentina y América Latina”, en Economia para cambiarlo todo. Feminismos, trabajo y vida digna, Santillana, A. Et al (eds.), Quito: Friedrich Ebert.
Gago, V. (2020): “The Silvia Rivera Principle: The Rebellion of Thought”, prólogo en Ch’ixinakax utxiwa. On Decolonising Practices and Discourses, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Londres: Polity Press.
Cavallero, L. y Gago, V. (2020): “10 tesi sull´economía femminista”, en La natura dell’economia: Femminismo, economia politica, ecologia, Comps: Tomasello, Pieralini, Giardini, Roma: Derive Approdi. ISBN-13: 978-8865483121.
Cavallero, L. y Gago, V. (2020): “Extrativismo financiero: A dívida como uma ofensiva do capital contra os setores subalternos”, en O Sistema financeiro e o endividamento das mulheres. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Eqüit, ISBN: 978-85-60794-19-5.
Articles
Gago, V. y Cavallero, L. (2022): “The Pandemic as Financial Laboratory”,TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Press.
Gago, V. y Cavallero, L. (2022): “Lavoro essenziale e inclusione finanziaria: una controversia nella pandemia”, economia e società regionale XL(2). Franco Angeli Editore.
Gago, V. (2022): “Neoliberalismo y después: empresarialidad, autogestión y luchas por la reproducción social”, Contemporânea – Revista de Sociologia da UFSCar, v. 11, n. 3, set. – dez. 2021, pp. 957-970.
Gago, V. y Cavallero, L. (2022): “La casa como laboratorio: finanzas, vivienda y trabajo esencial”, Realidad Económica No. 347. Págs. 43 a 88. Buenos Aires: Instituto Argentino para el Desarrollo Económico.
THE URBAN POPULAR ECONOMY COLLECTIVE. Solomon Benjamin,
Alioscia Castronovo, Luci Cavallero, Cristina Cielo, Véronica Gago, Prince Guma, Rupali Gupte, Victoria Habermehl, Lana Salman, Prasad Shetty, AbdouMaliq Simone, Constance Smith, and João Tonucci (2022): “Urban Popular Economies: Territories of Operation for Lives Deemed Worth Living”, PUBLIC CULTURE 34:3 • Duke University Press.
Gago, V. (2021): Kartographie der Gegenoffensive. Das Gespenst des Feminismus. En: Forum Kritische Psychologie, Neue Folge 3. Krise – Autoritäre Tendenzen – Subjektivität. Argument Verlag, Hamburgo (ISBN 978-3-86754-606-5).
Gago, V. (2021): “Repenser la violence et la classe depuis la grève féministe”, revista Tumultes, n° 54 “Violences, Histoire, Philosophie, Pratique”, Editions Kimé, París (en prensa).
Cavallero, L., Gago, V. y Perosino, C (2021): “¿De qué se trata la inclusión financiera? Notas para una perspectiva crítica”, en Realidad Económica, Buenos Aires: IADE.
Lucía Cavallero, Florencia Presta and Verónica Gago with Ana Vilenica, Solange Muñoz (2021). “Housing struggles and domestic territories in Argentina during the pandemic”, Radical Housing Journal, May 2021 Vol 3(1): 53-59. UK: Sheffield University.
Cavallero, L. y Gago, V. (2021): “Domestic Territories”, en The Urban Glossary Project, CityScape Magazine, Cape Town.
Gago, V. (2021): “Researching Neoliberalism from Latin America”, Global Dialogue 11.1, International Sociological Association.
Gago, V. (2020): “Notes on Essencial Labor”. International Labor and Working-Class History vol. 97, Cambridge University Press.
Gago, V. (2020): “Lecturas sobre feminismo y neoliberalismo”. Nueva Sociedad Nº 290 / Noviembre – Diciembre 2020. Buenos Aires: Fundación Friedrich Ebert.
Cavallero, L. y Gago, V. (2020): “A feminist perspective on the battle over property”. Feminist Review. Londres: Sage.
Gago, V. y Malo, M. (2020): “The new feminist international”, South Atlantic Quarterly 119:3, NC: Duke University Press, USA.
Gago, V. (2020): “Mutant Neoliberalism, Originary Violence and Feminist Revolts in Latin America”, Mutant Neoliberalism symposium, Law and Political Economy, Yale Law School, Connecticut, USA.
Gago, V. (2020): “Traducir el manifiesto comunista en tiempos de revuelta feminista”, Heterotopías. Córdoba: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Cavallero, L. y Gago, V. (2020): “Endeudar para gobernar: sobre el extractivismo financiero hacia los sectores subalternos”, Revista Cronía, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina.
Cavallero, L. y Gago, V. (2020): “Feminism, the Pandemic, and What Comes Next”, in The Midst – Critical Times, NC: Duke University Press.
Gago, Verónica (2019). “El cuerpo del trabajo. Tres escenas cartografiadas desde el paro feminista, A contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos, Vol. 16 No. 3 (2019): Spring 2019, North Carolina: NC State University.
Gago, V. (2019). “Mapping neoliberalism from below”. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(3), 353–355. Sage Publications, England. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619871789.
Gago, Verónica (2019). “Cartografiar la contra-ofensiva: el espectro del feminismo”, revista Nueva Sociedad No.282, Buenos Aires: Fundación Friedrich Ebert.
Gago, Verónica (2019). “Défier les universels: Une lecture située et dans la proximité d’Étienne Balibar”, en Les cahiers critiques de philosophie, París: Université Paris 8.
Gago, Verónica (2018): “What are popular economies? Some reflections from Argentina”, Radical Philosophy, 2.02 (June 2018), London: Radical Philosophy Group.