Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Based on life history and participant and non-participant observation, this research was carried out with five peasant women from western Santa Catarina. The objective was to identify the economic and cultural changes in the life trajectories of these women and how they impacted the construction of their knowledge and agricultural management. Starting from the context of their childhood, the changes with the arrival of the Green Revolution and, later, the changes with their participation in the Movement of Peasant Women (MMC). The research revealed that MMC, through its struggles, contributes to the achievement of material and symbolic conditions that allow women to remain in the countryside and the regaining of their autonomy in the construction of their knowledge.
Source: Revista Campo-Território
DOI: 10.14393/rct164311
Author: Renata Rocha Gadelha
Institution: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4214544914