Where are they and who are the peasant women of the South? The double invisibilisation of women working on the land

Abstract

Through socio-environmental and eco-territorial conflicts, we seek to investigate the conception of peasantry as a contextualized identity through a feminist perspective. The peasant subject faces the degradation of the territory in new forms of extractivism, where local women play a key role as defenders of the homeland. In order to address this issue, a literature review was necessary, in which the new forms of resistance of peasant and popular feminisms have been key in their contributions to the interrelated violence between bodies and territories, where the body is presented as a space of territorial resistance. For this reason, we will address the concept of the peasantry as an organised political subject in order to raise a discussion between the new/old forms of extractivism, and the new/old forms of resistance to it. This discussion is framed within ecofeminist theories in defense of the sustainability of life, debating between eco-dependencies and interdependencies, in order to understand new proposals for alternative futures.