Marcha das Margaridas

apontamentos para um (eco)feminismo latino-americano

Resumen

This paper presents reflections on the proposal of a Latin American feminism that starts from the experience of women located in the Global South. The aim of this paper is to search the documents constructed by the Marcha das Margaridas, which present the demands of this Brazilian movement of peasant women, for some elements to think of a Latin American (eco)feminism. To do so, we use the theoretical framework of ecofeminisms that offer some parameters for thinking about intersectionality beyond the elements that refer to the subordination and domination of human groups, including the problems arising from dualist-hierarchical relations of exploitation of humans with other forms of life. Ecofeminist literature helps to realize that the intersection between gender and environmental issues is central to the feminist thinking and doing of women of the Marcha das Margaridas. This movement builds alternative paths for the colonization of life policies, based on combating agribusiness and monocultures for the production of commodities, on socio-environmental preservation through agroecological practices and on sustaining human and non-human forms of life, and on the defense of autonomy and diversity of peasant women.