COSTA, J. P. A.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6778076054175823; COSTA, João Paulo Alves.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study, entitled Gender, Knowledge and Power: the role of black
women in the political and social organization of the Remnant Community of Quilombos
São José de Icatu - Mocajuba/Pará, aims to analyze and problematize the political
protagonism of women leaders community. In the same way, it also tries to investigate the
political engagement of these women regarding the direction and struggles for better living
conditions of the residents of the community. Thus, by focusing on the prominent role of
some of the residents in the management and organization of the community, we intend to
analyze the process of women empowerment in Icatu. For the purpose of this study, we
sought theoretical and methodological support in the reflections of authors such as: PINTO
(2004, 2007, 2012), SALLES (2005), SCOTT (1995), SOHET (1995),THOMPSON
(2011), CERTEAU (2014), FOUCAULT (2012), FUNES (1996), DIAS (1995), RAGO
(1995), among others. Likewise, field research was carried out through participant
observation with the aid of Oral History, through semi-structured interviews, oral reports
and life stories, plus imagery and written sources. It was verified that the political
protagonism of the women of the village of Icatu in front of the management positions
results from historical aspects of their quilombola ancestors, as well as, from an intense
militancy process in the basic social movements, facts that favored the formation of these
female leaderships in the engagement And political activity in the community of São José
de Icatu. It was also observed that the women leaders of Icatu are able to affirm themselves
as a political subject and to be empowered using microrresistances placed in practices by
means of wiles, inventions, daring and small subterfuges that grant them powers, and
therefore, the Empowered and protagonists of their individual and collective actions.
