Trabalhadoras e economia solidária na associação de mulheres do município de Igarapé-Miri/Asmim-Pará: da resistência à estratégia de desenvolvimento local

Abstract

The present work portrays the constitution of the Women Association of the City of Igarapé Miri–ASMIM/,Pará, as a fight space, resistance and association of working women. It aims to contribute with the debate around the conquests from the collective practice experience on the local development construction at Igarapé- Miri. Then, the target of this research is to understand the solidarity economy scenario, as well as the different conceptions around this prominent theme with the local development when both are understood as important strategies to the women contribution as a collective subject capable of break up with the invisibility, empowering themselves and become the protagonist of their own history. Important moments of fight and female resistance are emphasized around the equality of rights, income generations and participation at the public life. In this way, the emphasis of social movements and the organizations wich those women were/are articulated, was important to the comprehension of how they achieved their space and a local, regional and nacional politics representation, showing that the new political-cultural and socio-economic practices become references and changes the role of those women at the contemporary society. Finally, it was emphasized that the Igarapé-Miri construction was/is from a lot of fights and consequently, by conflicts that express themselves at familiar and work ambit, clearly showing inequalities that are hidden most times. This research brings to the debate the solidarity economy principles, as a propitious environment to the women‟s empowerment, and the strategies for a local development and public visibility to those women.