Trajetórias em movimentos: a construção da identidade política na organização dasmulheres trabalhadoras rurais em Minas Gerais

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Manuela de Sousa Magalhaes
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Identidade política; Teoria feminista; Psicologia social; Movimentos de mulheres trabalhadoras rurais; Movimentos sociais rurais; Trabalhadoras rurais; Psicologia; Feminismo
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/TMCB-7X8JVX

This thesis has analysed the struggle paths of rural working women in Working Rural Movement in Minas Gerais (MSTTR) between 1989 and 2002. The psychosocial aspects involved in the construction of their political identity were considered. We have analysed how the State Rural Working Commission leaders (CEMTR) of the Federal Agricultural Workers of Minas Gerais (FETAEMG) place and name throughout time the hierarchical power relationships and how they build their struggle flags, their organizational formats and individual and collective strategies toward movement confrontation. We have also considered two autonomous movements The Peasants Women`s Movement (MMC) and the Interchange Rural Working Women`s Web so to analyse from these perspectives their organizational experience in the MSTTR. We have use qualitative procedures such as semi-structured interviews, participant observation. Documents and symbolic items produced by the movements were also analysed. The results about the political identity construction were organized in four categories: 1) the origin of the political participation in the 80`s in the CEBs, CPT or in the new labour partiesthat would provide the ground to base the left political project of these women; 2) how they have articulated with the state or national MSTTR, taking into account: their struggle flags, organizational formats, the far-reaching effect of their coming in in the MSTTR political agenda, and how they have faced the power relationship in that space. Power has been experienced by these rural working women as: 2.a) the Stones Path whenever related to their participation in mix spaces and by the re-configuration of private spaces that the participation itself provides. 2.b) the Access to Resources in the material and symbolic sphere. 2.c) the Way to do Politics a very specific rural women`s way, ethically and epistemological oriented by the way they see and know the world. These interaction presuppose the incorporation of new themes of daily routines, survival, solidarity and of interpersonal relations in the doing-politics; 3) the third category indicate the 2002 rupture by CUT women at CEMTR culminating in their leaving the FETAEMG; 4) how the group has found articulative forms to keep their movement through the autonomous movement of the Interchange Rural Working Women`s Web, and by the conflicts that they still have to face to guarantee their insertion in theseparticipative spaces. The paths reveal that the identity construction process are based on how conflicts with the hegemonic power are settled throughout history. The political identity construction has been marked by the way these women name their adversary, that is, how they have established as We vs. They in the different periods of their trajectory: in the beggining of their political participation, than when integrated in the MSTTR dynamics, in the rupture process, in the return into the bases, and in the articulation of the Interchange Web. They adjust their political identity to the started strategies to construct diverse forms to exercise power that were ethically and epistemological oriented by the ideals of respect towards difference and of the fight for equality and liberty.