“A gente cuida da terra e a terra cuida da gente”: uma análise sobre o coletivo de mulheres raízes da terra do Quilombo Campo Grande

Abstract

The Collective de mulheres Raízes da Terra is a self-organization of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) belonging to the area of settlements and popular camps called Quilombo Campo Grande, located in Campo do Meio-MG. The Collective emerged to contribute to the autonomy and income generation of MST women in 2011 and, since then, has been organized among several activities, one of them being the cultivation of medicinal herbs and the production of herbal medicines through the collective garden. In this context, the present research aimed to analyze the practices and dynamics built by the Raízes da Terra women's collective in relation to expressions of care, through participant observation techniques. Due to a series of historical and social conditioning factors, women have taken on the role of those responsible for the sustainability of life. This responsibility is analyzed in different ways within the feminist literature. Based on social reproduction, an analysis was carried out on the meanings of care developed by women. The conclusion was reached that the women of the Roots of the Land movement develop other sociabilities, different from the hegemonic ones, due to their membership in the Social Movement and in the context of collective agroecological work. Among the women researched, care is extended to the community, to nature and to themselves. In this sense, we hope to contribute to the understanding of the work of "sustaining life" in the context of peasant and landless women, in addition to identifying elements of this relationship that contribute to the better development of society, guided by life.