Arpilleras e feminismo ressignificações das mulheres atingidas por barragens no semiárido nordestino

Abstract

As a result of the capitalist-patriarchal-racist structure of our society, women are the most invisible and violated part among the silenced populations. In this context, the women of the Movement of the Affected by Dams (MAB) recovered the arpilleras, a textile technique used by the Chileans as an instrument of political-social fight during the military dictatorship lived in the country. The project "Women affected by dams, building agroecological knowledge in rural areas of the Northeastern semi-arid region" arose from a demand from the MAB women by means of the extinct Ministry of Agrarian Development, in partnership with the Federal University of Ceará, through the Agrarian Residency Program. This project carried out an education process in Feminism and Agroecology for affected women in the territories of Ceará, Bahia and Pernambuco, in which 5 arpilleras were produced collectively. Thus, the present study aimed to understand the arpillera as a feminist methodology that contributes to the political self-organization of women in the Movement of People Affected by Dams on Northeast region. In order to do this, the research was carried out with an intersectional feminist perspective, based on the method of life history and participant observation, with the application of a semi-structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews. The women affected embraced body, soul, line and needle, the Chilean technique, going beyond, contextualizing in the embroidered canvas the reality of the conflicts and resistances lived in their territories of the Northeast.