Women in action and categories on motion: the struggle over land in Porto do Capim riverside community

Abstract

This article seeks to raise some considerations about protagonism of the Porto do Capim women's association in the struggle of the territory for housing purposes. The debate involves issues related to the right to the city, through the agency [agencement] of notions of identity, memory, and cultural heritage, carried out by [conducted] by local residents. Politically organized women are at the forefront of disputes with public power. It is considered as a movement women’s, even if it does not identify as feminist, it is able to strain the structures of the patriarchal structure by denying the possibility of the removal of the community and proposing alternative forms of interventions in the territory that guarantee the conditions for the survival of families. The demands of women are directed towards the provision of public health services, the installation of public health and education services. They still require basic sanitation and improvements in collective use spaces in the neighbourhood, in addition to considering the urban mobility of the claimed territory.

Keywords:
Gender; Territory; Identity; Heritage; Memory