INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT: the role of women in addressing issues arising from the climate crisis
Ecopolitics; Interdisciplinary; Indigenous Women; Socio-Climate.
This research investigates the perception/action of indigenous women regarding climate change. It assumes that socio-environmental, economic and political aspects are mutually influenced by local/global interactions. It aims to verify whether women are involved in effective actions to combat the climate crisis, as well as to analyze the practical and comprehensive arrangements that indigenous women develop as agents in dealing with the effects that climate change has on the environment in which they live. The focus is the socio-political performance that they exercise in the process of transformation/adaptation/construction of the subject and its surroundings in daily activities. In this investigation, we work with a theoretical and methodological framework from the interdisciplinary perspective of Actor-Network Theory, through the construction of knowledge in partnership by dialoguing with the notion of Ecofeminism, which interprets human/non-human relations from the perspective of the different possibilities of experiences. The method used is qualitative research ethnography, direct observation and, as data collection instruments, individual and collective interviews directed at women over eighteen years of age. This is a qualitative study using discourse analysis as a procedure. Given the need for environmentalist stances that go beyond the limits of the territory in question, the research aims to contribute to the replication of such attitudes among other indigenous groups and among human groups in general, in addition to consolidating and expanding the theoretical and methodological contribution for future research.