Trabalho, saberes e práticas de pesca das mulheres ribeirinhas da ilha Saracá, Limoeiro do Ajuru (PA): resistência das pescadoras artesanais

Abstract

The present work deals with political-identity knowledge built during the formation process of the Associação das Mulheres Trabalhadoras na Aquicultura e Agricultura da Ilha de Saracá (AMAIS), Limoeiro do Ajuru (PA). This research aimed to analyze the political-identity knowledge of women fishermen and farmers in the development of their work and organizational activities, based on AMAIS. Historical-Dialectic Materialism is taken as a methodological guideline, with a qualitative approach, using a semi-structured interview, following content analysis to understand the informants' narratives, based on their work experiences. As a theoretical basis, the readings of Marx (2013), Marx and Engels (2007), Rodrigues (2012), Martins (2017), Barra (2019), Furtado, (2017), Raffestin (1993), Pereira (2014), Lerner (2019), Davis (2016), Toledo (2008), among others. The research problem was constituted in the experiences of a fisherwoman, in academic experiences, in dialogues with the community and in social struggles. To this end, the research revealed at first that, even before AMAIS existed, the women who formed it already had knowledge related to their experiences and their work practices. However, in the performance of their functions as workers developed from the association, these women built political-identity knowledge that re-signified their struggles in their community. This knowledge was identified as political-identity knowledge of autonomy, as it concerns the decision-making power of these women in their work without interference or external coercion from third parties, which demonstrated a principle of freedom and independence. Political-identity knowledge of class consciousness that presents itself as a collective consciousness and organization of minority groups in favor of a class. The political-dental knowledge of cause knowledge that is related to the knowledge acquired through experiences and observation experienced in everyday life and that led them to have a good theoretical basis on their rights as fisherwomen. We also identified in the research that women have always played important roles in the defense of the environment, during the analyzes this was verified due to the presence of AMAIS fishermen in manifestos and claims in favor of the Amazon. Finally, it was found that, even amid the inactivity of AMAIS, the knowledge that was built in the course of its affirmation processes still remain alive, helping them in the social causes of the region.