Contributions of the concept of bodyterritory and community feminisms to think about building Healthy and Sustainable Territories

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ID5333525
AuthorsCristiane Coradin (0000-0001-5152-2966, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)), Simone Santos Oliveira (0000-0001-5477-6216, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
Year2024
Volume48
Issuespe1
Publication date2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSaúde em Debate (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-1104 • E-ISSN: 2358-2898
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/2358-28982024e18731i
OpenAlexW4402964347
LanguageEN
References cited11

This text constitutes a literature review, which presents the path towards building the concept of body-territory, its connections with community feminism, ecofeminism and decolonial feminism, to discuss the construction of Healthy and Sustainable Territories (TSS). This concept originates from community mobilizations of women of Abya Yala peoples. It has been gradually incorporated by Brazilian Indigenous, Black and peasant women. The body-territory consists of biological, mental, social and cosmogonic dimensions. From their bodies and territories, they question the impacts of large undertakings; problematize violence against women and the Earth; problematize sex-gender, class and race inequalities; and denounce situations that constrain health and their bodies and territories. Through care practices, these women recover their own health and of their community groups and territories, expanding theirs and the collective health. This favors resilience and reparation of the web of life. This female protagonism has been invisible in studies on TSS. Therefore, it is considered essential that these feminist contributions are intersectional in actions to promote TSS

Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy

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