AGROECOLOGY, FEMINISMS AND SUBJECTIVITY: CONTEMPORARY FIGHTS IN THE CITY
urban agriculture; feminist epistemology; agroecology; right to the city.
The present study aims to reflect on the relationship between feminism and agroecology in the city of Rio de
Janeiro, from the emergence of women as political subjects in the agroecological movement. To this end, we follow
debates, meetings and mobilizations around the feminist and agroecological agenda of the popular women's
movement in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. We take feminist epistemology as a theoretical-methodological basis
in its articulation in the field of social psychology in the perspective of poststructuralist theories and postcolonial
theories, seeking to consider the various crossings and social dynamics that characterize these contexts, when
looking at the modes of subjectivation of urban women farmers and activists within the agroecology movement. As
methodological tools, we used document analysis of social movements and policies to promote agroecology and
urban agriculture, interviews with women members of the movement and participant observation of events, meetings and the daily life of my interlocutors.