Feminismo Comunitário do Sul : Lutas, territórios e res-existências das catadoras de lixo no município de Mossoró/RN/Brasil

Abstract

T This article discusses the main struggles of recyclable material collectors in the city of Mossoro-RN, exposing from a theoretical and epistemological basis of black and community feminist order, ecofeminism, decolonial feminism, in the context of paradigmatic ruptures in Southern thought. The methodological anchorage came from the point of view of cognitive injustice (Santos, 2010), and the voice of the underlings (Spivack, 2012), from where we conducted field research and in-depth interviews for a long and intermittent period of time that spanned the year from 2009 to the year 2021. The research dialogue is centered on the role of Josefa Avelino, founder and current president of the Recycling for Life Community Association (ACREVI), but includes the association's recyclable material collectors, who are mostly black women, poor, peripheral, mothers, unemployed, owners of the home economy, who resist daily in the streets, living off the leftovers, in the shadows of the world. ode of capitalist production. In the end, we believe we can see how the subjective action of women can engender new political strategies in which the issue of productivity is related to another logic of the economy of life, an economy of solidarities.