Entre o solo e a terra
Mulheres inseridas em experiências de agroecologia no MST
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5797155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isabela Noronha (0000-0001-8079-8566, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.47749/t/unicamp.2018.1022072 |
| OpenAlex | W4206635358 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The objective of this research is to explore what the earth means for women farmers, who are involved in agroecology and who have a history of struggle for land access and permanence.Can one say that these women express another way of relating to earth?What is the importance of this relationship, whatever it may be, in strengthening today's resistances?What would be the contribution of agroecology in proposing new relations with the earth, with nature and with production?The earth will be used in this work as a central element of the discussion, interpreted in the plurality of the term: both as surface and object of management, as axis of the productive complex of food and source of cultural and identity relations.Considering the presence of a hegemonic rationality that supports the exploratory and market use of soil/earth, implying forms of colonization and violence in which the main disadvantages are women and nature, I look for alternative forms of coexistence in the environment in some theories such as Ecofeminism, Feminist Economics, Care Theory and Agroecology, which offer some key concepts and categories to understand the invisibility and devaluation of the feminine scopes of work related to care activities that encompass both personal attention and care with production or obtaining healthy food, the struggles of peasant women and their relations with production.The work also brings a survey of soil interpretations, starting with the formation of a reductionist rationality of domination of nature that influenced the processes of colonization and scientific development, making the cut of the formation of soil science to think how this process supported the called the Green Revolution.Next, I bring some alternative views on soil, both within and outside of science, and particularly the contributions of agroecology, and complement with the interpretation of soil/earth as a territory: the history of women's marginalization in access to land ownership and its consequences for understanding the particularities of the demands of the female peasant movements.Finally, these concepts are articulated to analyze the semi-structured interviews with four MST women farmers, who draw up life histories of struggle that illustrate the relationship that these women establish with the land through activities of care, concern for food and agroecology.All this way reinforces the premise of multiple understandings for soil/earth, and also the coexistence of these meanings in the same context, outlining practical and conceptual disputes
Agroecology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Environmental Sustainability and Education · Rural Development and Agriculture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |