Women, economy and nature: self-management in defense of life in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia
fair trade; solidarity economy; Feminisms; food systems; social organizations; public policies
The present work aims to carry out an emancipatory political-pedagogical training process with the Volta Peasant Women's Collective, in the municipality of Lençóis, Bahia. In order to promote social and economic self-organization to enable the permanence in the field with a guarantee of a dignified life and social rights. For this, action research is used as a methodological strategy, which aims to integrate theory and practice. This is a tactic that makes the subjects involved in the research protagonists of the process together with the researcher, in a cooperative way. In this way, the Culture Circles in the Dialog of Knowledge are presented as a tool for data collection, data analysis, and human formation. It is expected with this project that self-management will be rooted in the local community, as a major assumption for territorial development. Even because the people involved in the local problems are the ones who can best find ways to solve them.