La rebelión de las ollas: ¿performance? de resistencia popular femenina frente al problema del hambre

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Authors: Claudia Cattaneo Clemente
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Abstract

This article analyzes the olla común (communal soup kitchen) as a performative act of popular resistance, historically led by women in response to humanitarian crises marked by hunger. The olla común is understood not merely as a practice of solidarity for survival, but as a social performance in the sense proposed by scholars such as Victor Turner and Diana Taylor: the body and collective action serve as forms of memory, protest, and social transformation. The olla común emerges as a mode of political agency that subverts mechanisms of exclusion and control—not through direct confrontation, but through communal organization that symbolically exposes, challenges, and dismantles the repressive and neoliberal structures responsible for the precarization of life. In this context, the act of cooking and sharing becomes a political gesture that confronts the dominant order, revealing its structural violence and reconfiguring social bonds through solidarity and everyday resistance.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Arts and Performance Studies Feminism Gender and Intersectionality Theatre and Performance Studies

Publication details

Journal / source
telondefondo Revista de Teoría y Crítica Teatral
Issue
42
Publication date
6 January 2026
Language
EN