Women and Agroecology in Rio de Janeiro: building feminist politics from the margins
urban agriculture; feminist epistemology; Agroecology; right to the city.
This study aims to analyze the role of women in the construction of feminisms and Agroecology. To this end, we follow debates, meetings and mobilizations around the feminist agenda and agroecological popular movement of women from the West zone of Rio de Janeiro. We take the feminist epistemology as theoretical-methodological base in your joint in the field of social psychology in the context of postcolonial theory and post-structuralist theories, seeking to consider the various crossings and dynamics that characterize these contexts, to look at the modes of subjectivation of the urban farmers and the militants within the movement of Agroecology. As methodological tools, the analysis of documents of social movements and of the policies of promotion of Agroecology and urban agriculture, interviews with women members of the movement and the participant observation of events, meetings and the daily life of my speakers. The results show that social movements have been building narratives based on the importance of construction of feminisms and Agroecology while large social transformation projects, articulating gender, class and race; the international policies and programmes linked to the U.N. mobilized an institutional discourse of empowerment and equality referred to liberal feminisms increased production as a way to "equality" between genres. This will have great impact with regard to projects and credit lines for Agroecology in Latin America.The results also show that before the crisis scenario, militarization and precarious state, women build a feminist politics and popular since the banks from the concepts of body-territory and feminism. These strategies ressignificam subalternized places of power and point to other ways of doing politics, producing knowledge and occupy the cities. With this we see that the Agroecology comprise on a know-power that, if on the other hand can be captured by speeches that try to undermine potential insurgent, of contrapoderes, on the other hand, with the folds that are being built, especially by women, the territories, in a Rhizomatic action on building a network with other struggles and landscapes of resistance, such as the issue of food security, feminism and the right to the city to fight against the processes of urban gentrification and real estate speculation, puts the Agroecology movement as an important vector of subjectivation policy in the social movements from the city and the countryside.