Feminist resistance building in the Brazilian agroecology movement: A gender decoloniality study
研究巴西农业生态运动中女性如何通过主体性和世界旅行策略构建抵抗,揭示性别去殖民化的复杂过程,对关注拉丁美洲女性主义组织和农村女性现实的研究者有用。
Abstract The agroecology movement in Brazil has politically mobilized the importance of feminism in its slogan. Considering that domination over women persists in the postcolonial context of Latin America, we look at how women in the Brazilian agroecology movement craft resistance in modern‐colonial rural Brazil. Grounded on Maria Lugones' decolonial feminism resistance lenses, we conducted narrative analysis and qualitative field research between 2017 and 2018 with female activists in the movement. The results showed that the complex process of gender decolonization involves constructing resistance through active subjectivity and world‐traveling strategies that encompass hard and almost invisible work, materialized through artifacts, activities, and re‐signifying processes that are part of these women's lives. We contribute to the knowledge on feminist resistance organizing in Latin America and studies on rural women's realities that have often been neglected in Gender and Organization Studies.