Mulheres, corpos-territórios de luta: na linha de frente pelo direito à cidade no Centro Antigo de Salvador

Abstract

This project, aims to understand in what ways systems of oppression and patriarchal exploitation and the raciality device materialize in the production of urban space, and how the agency of women, active political subjects in the construction and defense of their communities, have interrogated these processes and articulated networks of everyday action, social technologies, political practices of care and collective urban infrastructures, which confront the hegemonic logic of space production, and build other life relationships in cities. The research case is located in the Historical Center of Salvador, a territory historically formed by the presence of the black population, connected by their ancestral roots, and marked by collective practices and community actions of city-making, led by black women, on the front line of reproduction of life and facing processes of dispossession, as a result of markedly exclusionary and racist policies and urban intervention projects that have been developed by the State and the private sector in recent decades. The stories, memories and experiences of the women who lead these movements are references for the development of work, with a fundamental political and epistemological sense, understanding that the narratives and actions of the main agents of everyday city-making, are the basis for creating perspectives potential for other perspectives on the territories, giving rise to strength for the transformative powers that are already underway in the cities. In this sense, the development of this work has contributed to the recording, recognition and appreciation of the knowledge and practices carried out by this network of women and their ancestors in their territories, reaffirming the fundamental role they play in their communities and in urban disputes in the city, and highlighting how the fight for the defense of territory is inseparable from the fight for the defense of women's bodies, since their lives and bodies are intimately connected to the places where they live. The right to territory, and the right to the city, represents the defense of their own lives and existences.