Lutas pela terra, mulheres e violências: aproximações e distanciamentos desde as indígenas Guarani e Kaiowa, as posseiras de Trombas e Formoso e as mulheres dos faxinais de Pinhão

Abstract

Land struggles are a significant part of the lives of indigenous peoples, peasants, and traditional communities in Brazil. These conflicts are organized by gender, differentiating places, bodies, and forms of action for men and women. In this article, we draw a conversation between the experiences of the Kaiowa and Guarani women, the peasant women in Trombas and Formoso, and the women in the faxinais of Paraná, to discuss how they conduct themselves in these disputes and cultivate powers that enable them to secure or take back their lands. We highlight the centrality of the house as a living entity, a place that connects bodies and lands, participates in conflicts, and suffers violence. We argue that women’s agencies reflect the intimacy of the struggles and interweave gender as a way of ordering the colonization and the expansion of agribusiness, and as a way of organizing the ways of life of indigenous people and peasants.