Representações sociais, cotidiano e práticas políticas de mulheres quebradeiras de coco babaçu no estado do Maranhão

Abstract

With the democratization process in Brazil, various social movements of collective identity were organizing themselves politically to claim rights they were denied systematically by the State. The expansion of spaces for political participation enabled the collective identity of groups fighting for their rights, however, despite the new relationship with the state and the constitutional recognition and infra, the effectuation of these rights has not yet materialized. Within this context, emerge on the political scene the women babassu coconut breakers, demanding recovery and recognition of their traditional activity of extraction of babassu, an increase of products derived from palm, approval and respect the laws of the babassu free and territorial space to develop both collection and break the coconut as well as family farming based on organic production. The support for their claims is centered on the idea that socio traditional populations are responsible for protecting the environment, since they have a low environmental impact compared with nature.