Mulheres descolonizando a Amazônia pelos caminhos de vida: Produção de subjetividades atravessadas pelo projeto de nação desenvolvimentista

Abstract

Subjectivities constantly challenge the nation project when confronting developmental policies that adopt values and ways of life that are different from their own. In view of this, some contexts, such as the case of the Amazon, allow us to perceive how the production of subjectivities occurs in dynamics with capitalism and the State, specifically in the years of political crisis experienced in Brazil since mid2014 and 2015, going through impeachment from President Dilma Rousseff until the rise of the farright government of Jair Bolsonaro. The present study is then designed in this scenario to think from the life paths of women living in Tapajós, how they relate to the nation project under the developmental sign that historically projects the future of the nation in the Amazon through logic of expropriation and exploitation. The study was carried out through field research developed over recurring trips from 2017 to 2019, connecting them to macropolitical developments in the period and the reality in three different locations: the village of AlterdoChão, Santarém; the Jamaraquá community, in the Tapajós National Forest; and the community of Coroca, on the Arapiuns River, part of the Lago Grande Agroextractive Settlement Project. In addition to the experience and daily conversations during the visits, 11 interviews were conducted with women who live in the three locations, of different ages, to think about the process of producing subjectivities. In this context, we started with references from postcolonial and decolonial studies, as well as schizoanalysis, to identify the effects of coloniality on contemporary structures and relationships, both on subjects and subjects, but also on institutions and regions, such as the Amazon. , built in the social imaginary as a gendered and racialized place, which historically is in line with a vision of a developmental project for Brazil. And that, for women, this process will involve peculiarities based on the coloniality of gender, which also crosses relations of race, class and place of origin / belonging. It was realized that subjectivities can both be compatible with the values that serve capitalist and state interests, but they can also be incompatible, leading to a rupture and the singularization of these subjectivities. Equally, it was also noticed that there is a possibility of crossing, in which a rupture is sought, but due to the structural and systematic limitations, displacement is a tool found to meet one's needs, coexist within a capitalist society and still produce desires even if involved in modern / colonial logic.