WEAVERS FROM POTIGUAR SEMI-ARID AT THE WITCHES FAIR (MOSSORÓ) AND AT THE HOUSE OF BORDADEIRAS (TIMBAÚBA DOS BATISTAS):perspectives on territories, gender and decoloniality.
Palavras-chaves: Semiarid; Genre; Decoloniality; Craftsmanship; territories; Public policy;
Abstract: Modernity, permeated by a hegemonic notion of top-down development, is marked by the superposition of dominations and power relations, in which exploitative capitalism, colonialism, patriarchal, heterosexual and racial domination are associated, imposing exclusions, invisibilities (SANTOS, 2002; 2009; 2007; DUSSEL, 1993; QUIJANO, 2009) and damage in the environmental dimension (GIDDENS, 2010). The present research aims to reflect on two territories of the semi-arid potiguar, namely Mossoró and Timbaúba dos Batistas, and their intersections with gender, development and decoloniality, from the study of the life trajectories of the weavers of Feira das Bruxas and Casa das Bordadeiras, relying on semi-structured interviews of life stories and other approximation approaches, collects as questionnaires among the artisans and subsequent analysis and interpretation. For the reflection of territories in Brazil, we start from the understanding of their formation marked by large estates, monoculture and slavery (PORTO-GONÇALVES; LEÃO, 2020) and power relations that make women's experiences and agendas invisible (HORA; BUTTO , 2014; GODOI; AGUIAR, 2018; GRISA, 2013), comprising the intersections between gender, class and race, in a historical context of colonial domination (LUGONES, 2008; VIGOYA, 2016; HOOKS, 2019). The hypothesis raised is that the reflection on the life trajectories of the weavers of the semi-arid region contribute to a notion of anti-systemic, anti-capitalist, decolonial development, approaching the idea of development as freedom (SEN, 2000), through the reconstruction, above all, of the dimension of subjectivity (GUATTARI, 1990), from the rescue of the imaginal, the reasons of the heart, the fertile ground of childhood, the art of spinning and a poetics of weavers (HILLMAN, 2010; 2010; BACHELARD, 1988).
Palavras-chaves: Semiarid; Genre; Decoloniality; Craftsmanship; territories; Public policy;