Sustainability and Territoriality:

Crafting the Fight and the Resistance of Rural Women in Brazil

Authors

  • Debir Soares Gomes Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Gema Galgani Siliveira Leite Esmeraldo Universidade Federal do Ceara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v5n2.2014.10878

Keywords:

Sustentabilidade, Assentamento Rural, Mulher rendeira

Abstract

The article is outlined from the analysis of a case study research realized in the context of actions
of women in the Maceió settlement, located in the county of Itapipoca, in the state of Ceará.
Working with social relations and reproduction strategies of the lace-making and peasant women,
the sustainability and territoriality categories are being operated for the comprehension of their
practices and their world views. Collectively organized, they produce a material and mainly
symbolic value, by relating their handicraft work to the territoriality and the socio-environmental
sustainability of the settlement. Through their forms of inclusion into the spaces of power and
production, they constitute new identities, promote the participation and the
selfacknowledgment in the use and occupation of the beach and the sea, in the organization of
the settlement, in the groups of extraction and beneficiation of seaweed and in the struggles
involving the construction of territorialities.

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Author Biographies

Debir Soares Gomes, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Graduada em Economia Doméstica pela Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC; Mestranda do Programa de Pós Graduação em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente da Universidade Federal do Ceará - PRODEMA/UFC

Gema Galgani Siliveira Leite Esmeraldo, Universidade Federal do Ceara

Doutora em Sociologia pela Universidade Federal do Ceará. Professora nos Programas de Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente e em Avaliação de Políticas Públicas da Universidade Federal do Ceará.

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Published

2014-09-09

How to Cite

Gomes, D. S., & Esmeraldo, G. G. S. L. (2014). Sustainability and Territoriality:: Crafting the Fight and the Resistance of Rural Women in Brazil. Sustainability in Debate, 5(2), 18–35. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v5n2.2014.10878

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2014)

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Artigos

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