Movimiento de mujeres contra el extractivismo: feminismos y saberes multisituados en convergencia

Abstract

This article explores the emergence of an anti-extractivist women’s move-ment in Latin America. To this end, it reviews and theoretically analyzes the conver-gence of i. social mobilization for environmental demands and against the extractivism of nature, with a focus on the incorporation of gender and feminist political ecology; ii. the vindication and revaluation of territorialized experiences, both for the defense of territories and bodies and for the production of situated knowledge by community feminism in connection with other feminisms; and iii. a diverse women’s movement that incorporates the anti-extractivist struggle from cities, questioning its rural origin and its main actors —indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant women—, while resignifying it through the socio-environmental problems of the urban context. This article therefore proposes using a gender perspective to reflect on the resistance to the progress of neoliberal extractivism in Latin America.