Together somewhere, anywhere alone: Zambra Malaga, care as an embodied feminist resistance

This paper explores the experience of the autonomous activist collective Zambra Malaga, which develops its work in Andalucía, south of Spain. Through the analysis of two of the main projects developed by the group, this paper explores how the category of care is constructed both as related to the economic system and the effects of hetero-patriarchy in it, and is also configured as a specific way of living in community, based on the privilege of collectivity and support. Such construction of support networks comprises also a resubjectification of bodies as collective territories of resistance. Care is constructed as a specific form of struggle, tackling directly the effects of capitalism/ hetero-patriarchy over women and men lives. This paper explores how Feminism and, in general, collective action is being made in a particular place of the world and is nourishing the practices of contemporary place-based social movements. Finally, based on Standpoint and Situated Knowledges epistemologies, this paper is an exploration on how to research on Feminist activism and the challenges it entails, understanding this type of research as an embodied process in which the creation of bridges between academia and activism is an underlying objective.