Mulheres quilombolas e práticas de empoderamento na luta pela terra: uma análise sob a perspectiva feminista decolonial

Abstract

The rights of minorities, even when it seems something right and safe, are always in check in Brazil and in the world, currently when analyzing the Brazilian political scenario, it is noted that what has been achieved with much struggle of traditional peoples is being lost. This master’s dissertation aims to study the struggles waged by the Quilombola peoples, first, against the slave system, and later against this process of exploitation of agribusiness and large entrepreneurs. It mainly aims to analyze from the point of view of decolonial feminism, the struggle of quilombola women for the recognition of their ancestral territories. Decolonial feminism is inserted as one of the currents of subaltern feminism, which develops to break with Eurocentric, heteronormative, sexist and racist standards. Decolonial feminism manifests itself in the context of Latin America, giving visibility to its subaltern representations, to Latin American, Afrodescendant, mixed-race and indigenous women, and in this scenario maroon women also fall into the background. One can observe the incidence of decolonial and intersectional theory in the daily struggles of black women and quilombola. Female leaders in quilombos, both in the public and private contexts, represent the notion of emancipatory and empowerment linked to the collective context. It is concluded that despite the specific vulnerabilities faced by quilombola women, the uprising against the dominant structure brings a new perspective of overcoming. Thus, decolonial feminism, beyond theories, must observe existing phenomena. Quilombola women fight for their territories, for the right to maintain and pass on ancestral knowledge and for the recognition of gender identities in order to mitigate overlapping violence.