In this presentation, Lucía Cavallero discusses her latest book, in which she analyses how finance governs the life of the majority of the people in the name of freedom. The author shows how the notion of freedom is central to contemporary financial capitalism, driven by the new right and led by corporations that concentrate wealth in algorithmic and extractivist forms.
Based on her most recent research, developed in the context of Argentina and Latin America, Cavallero examines the intertwining of neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and anti-feminism, which finds in the so-called ‘financial freedom’ a fetish concept, both grandiloquent and perverse expression, amid accelerating impoverishment and social cruelty.
Lastly, she will address the struggles of the Argentinian transfeminist movement facing the rise of the far right and their resistance in defence of other forms of life, community and freedom.
The presentation will be in Spanish and translated into English with a consecutive translation.
Lucía Cavallero is a sociologist and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires. Her research focuses among other topics on debt and gender. She is an activist within Ni Una Menos, a feminist movement that struggles against gender-based violence. She is co-author of “A Feminist Reading of Debt” and “The Home as Laboratory: Finance, Housing, and Feminist Struggle”.
When: Thursday, 7 May 2026, 18:30-20:00
Where: Hörsaal III, NIG, ground floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Speaker: Lucía Cavallero (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Moderation: Lucie Naudé, Lina Schmid (both Department of Political Science, University of Vienna)
