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Transnational Networks of Peasant Women for Food Sovereignty in Latin America: New Counterhegemonic Spaces for Gender Equity

Gender
Latin America
Social Justice
Social Movements
Women
Identity
Gabriela Pinheiro Machado Brochner
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Gabriela Pinheiro Machado Brochner
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Abstract

Transnational networks of peasant women for food sovereignty became an important tool for the empowerment of rural women. The construction of new spaces through transnational networks has allowed women to claim from different scales, through politics of scale, gender demands. Food sovereignty is shown as a unifying demand for different gender demands, as social justice and gender equity seems to be a condition for food sovereignty, the demand is linked to the tasks socially ascribed to women throughout history and their gender identity. In Latin America, transnational networks of peasant women have created new opportunities for participation and claim from the demand for food sovereignty. In addition, women have been able to create counterhegemonic spaces within counterhegemonic spaces, as the social movements they are part of, or other transnational networks as La Vía Campesina. The aim of this work is to understand the importance of creating new counter-hegemonic spaces, understanding how politics of scale works to the empowerment of rural women and their struggle for gender equity and social justice.