Mulheres camponesas, agroecologia e cotidiano: um estudo de caso do Assentamento Oito de Junho de Laranjeiras do Sul/PR sob o aspecto do desenvolvimento rural sustentável

Abstract

The present work has the goal to comprehend the reflections and challenges of agroecology and sustainable rural development on peasant women everyday life from Assentamento Oito de Junho, located in Laranjeiras do Sul county, state of Paraná. The used method was qualitative research, with the execution of six semi-structured interviews. The work also configures itself as a case report and has the ethnography and the camp journal as core elements at research’s development. At first chapter, we deepened the daily concepts, way of life, reflections of rural patriarchy and the constitution of female peasant’s identities; at second chapter, we approached theoretical foundations and politicians of agroecology , of sustainable rural development, of ecofeminism and the caring in relation to the natural environment; and, at third and last chapter, we bring to research the conception of social movements and agrarian reform, just as we have situated the historical context, social and organizational from Assentamento Oito de Junho. Finally, the research converges theory and practice highlighting the relation between agroecology and sustainable rural development on peasant women’s everyday life and ways of life.