Extractivisme et résistances paysannes dans l’agroécologie au Brésil

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the forms of conflictuality and violence in territories subject to agricultural and mining extractivism, the impacts on peasant groups and the way in which resistance based on agroecology is redefined by these processes. We draw attention to gender in interlocked power relations by showing, on the one hand, how it serves the penetration of extractivist projects, by getting (male) peasants to sign up to the projects or by attacking their resistance. On the other hand, we highlight resistance centred on agroecology, the reinvestment of the care work socially assigned to female peasants, opposition and negotiations within families and politicization.

Keywords

• extractivism
• agroecology
• care
• gender
• violence