at Women, forest and extractivism:

ways of being, existing and resisting babassu coconut breakers from the “Sítio” community (Cristino Castro, Piauí / Brazil).

Abstract

In order to understand the ways of life and resistance of babassu coconut breakers from the Sítio community, in the municipality of Cristino Castro-PI (Brazil), the study was based on a qualitative methodology, with a participatory approach, based on techniques such as interviews, questionnaires, observation, dialogue circles, in person and at a distance. With six coconut breakers in the study, the CPT agent in the region and the researcher herself, who already worked in socio-educational practices with women. The analyzes were established in a critical-dialectic perspective. With this, we emphasize the condition of women, on the one hand, as guardians of socio-biodiversity, as promoters of a life-based economy and, on the other, as a collective threatened by agribusiness. In their daily resistance, they recreate themselves by affirming the value of the babassu forest for the reproduction of rural people and the importance of collective organization and training, implying the need for public sectors to guarantee their rights.