Transforming gender relations and making common. An experience of women's savings in Chiriguaná, Cesar (Colombia)

Abstract

This article describes the experience of setting up the Women's Savings Accounts of the Community Council of La Sierra, El Cruce and La Estación (CONESICE), in the municipality of Chiriguaná, Cesar, Colombia, as an experience of popular economy driven and managed by women that produces elements to transform gender relations and manage collective life. In this sense, we analyze the implementation of a solidarity economy strategy, which takes up elements of feminist economics and through the encounter between women allows the management of tools and capacities to produce fairer social relations. As part of the transformation of gender relations, the savings produced among women overflow their exchange value and produce use values that are placed at the service of the collective and allow the linking of the community as an element that produces common.