Resistência bordada: as arpilleras das mulheres atingidas por barragens.

Abstract

Talking about women who do not live in urban areas seems to equate to a request for silence in some spaces. The erasure brought about by these homogenizing practices is consistent with the unsaid, with what must be silenced. In view of these problematizations, the question is: does women's knowledge, which are not part of feminist struggles with urban characteristics, have no value for the feminist struggles that are constituted in the Amazon and beyond? Is it possible to think of Brazilian-style feminism? And in an Amazonian feminism that favors our territory as the center of debates? To which bodies do these feminisms bend in the dynamics of recognition of heterogeneity? To think about these issues, I propose as a focus the craft activities of women affected by dams due to the deeply territorial and community content of their work with arpilleras. This research will seek to build an analysis of the violence(s) against women narrated by the members of the Movement of People Affected by Dams through the embroideries that make up the exhibition <Arpilleras 3 Embroidering Resistance=. For that, I point out as specific objectives: 1) to investigate the history of the construction of the Moivmento de Atingidos por Barragens 3 MAB, especially in its wing formed by women; 2) explore the history that comprises the making of Arpilleras in Latin America; 3) problematize the relationship between coloniality, body-territory and the production of violence narrated by the women of MAB. To support these objectives, I will make use of the methodological perspectives of Foucault's Archaeogenealogy and of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Cartography, looking, in parallel, at Cultural History and its relationship with documentary research. Brazil is the country in Latin America with the greatest extent and also one of the greatest pretensions of finding itself in a position to apply economic strategies from other sociohistorical contexts. The experiences that cross the arpilleras' narratives are built on wellliving and political militancy. The violence they suffer is the result of neoliberal policies and the coloniality of their territorial bodies, therefore, of capitalist relations that fragment and frame their lives in a series of precariousness.