MULHERES E MARISCAGEM: INVENÇÕES DE SI NO (IN) MUNDO MANGUE

Abstract

The present study is based on a research linked to the extension program
project of Sociopolitical Empowerment of Shellfish Picker Women in the
state of Sergipe, a stage of the Environmental Education Program for Coastal
Communities. The project aims to empower the Movement of Shellfish
Picker Women from Sergipe. The research is a process of collective habitation
in defense of traditional living territories and the shellfish pickers’s lives, who
see, daily, their existential territories threatened by large capital enterprises.
Inspired by ethnography and cartography, we focused on the processes of
invention of women’s daily life in the mangrove forest. The perspective is
to research about shellfish picker women, learn about their lifestyle and
ways of resistance, which are woven in a hybrid territory involving city,
countryside and mangrove forest. We followed the construction of the social
movement and, added to it, networks of care and mutual help, inventions
of themselves and related worlds, broadening the meanings of the woman
category and the handicraft work.