A construção de saberes no movimento de mulheres camponesas : uma análise a partir do programa de sementes crioulas no Oeste de Santa Catarina - Brasil.

Abstract

The present doctoral thesis analyzes the construction of knowledge in the Movement of Peasant Women – MMC, from the Program of Sementes Crioulas, in the west of Santa Catarina - Brazil. We assume that every social practice produces knowledge, deconstructing the idea that there is only one knowledge. This process recovers and re-signifies values present in the traditional practices and knowledge of the black, caboclos and indigenous peoples, as well as the resistance struggles of these peoples and of the Peasant Leagues, which suffered contextualized impacts in the process of capitalist development in the Brazilian countryside. Peasant women in the movement of the MMC, previously invisible insofar as they were constructing practices, elaborating knowledge, were also re-signifying and assuming themselves in their feminist peasant identity. They participated and created strategies of specific and general struggles, individual and collective, of production and reproduction of life, in militancy and outside it. Courses, basic works, specific, and general, conjunctural and structural struggles constituted and strengthened the construction of knowledge that was gradually enabling new ways of facing the contradictions experienced in the countryside. In this context, through the praxis, they were demarcating other perspectives, causing this experience to be reflected in the territory, there becoming stronger and gaining new shapes. The question of research that we put on was: How do the historical and social practices of peasant women in movement condition the production of knowledge and events in the MMC in the west of Santa Catarina? To show how this process has been materializing itself, we opted for the dialectical historical materialist approach. For data collection the procedures adopted were autobiographies, interviews and Epistemological Circles of Culture which were recorded and tracked in the field diary. Along with this we used sources from the Memory Center of the West of Santa Catarina – CEOM and from the Movement itself, among them, informative, archives, booklets, sites besides bibliographical research. The focus of the theme is the Program of Sementes Crioulas of MMC/SC. In relation to the learning considered more expressive of the research, we highlighted that this experience inaugurates and proposes a Peasant Feminist Epistemological Perspective in construction in the MMC. The research pointed especially to what is not apparent, but which is inherent in the social process. It enabled us to analyze the process of constituting the MMC from the viewpoint of studies, from the construction of knowledge that is effective in the contradictory. The peasant women themselves during the participation in the ECCs, presented impasses, difficulties and challenges faced in the day-to-day.