As part of her research about life alternatives among indigenous communities in Ecuador, Larissa Da Silva Araujo will present some reflections on agroecology and gender politics for Kayambi women.
Agroecology has been debated as a source of radical transformation for peasant livelihoods and as an alternative to industrial agriculture. Kayambi women have been contributing to this debate for the past 15 years. After residing and visiting the canton of Cayambe for several years (2019 to 2022), Larissa's ethnographic encounter with the Kayambi chakareras (indigenous agroecological producers) allowed her to elaborate on another perspective on agroecology. Her view expands on the idea that agroecology is an agricultural practice integrated with scientific knowledge and activism. Looking inside the house and the chakra as sites of agroecological transition, she revisits Rita Segato, bell hooks and other feminists to develop further the debate on agroecology as connected to the gender politics of the domestic. Such a review aims to valorise community feminism as a means of transformative praxis.
About the speaker
Larissa Da Silva Araujo is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute, with a master’s in Human Rights and a bachelor’s in International Relations. She is also part of the collective Red de Tamboreras de Suiza and the Collective GRITO. She has experience as a teaching assistant at the Geneva Graduate Institute and the University of Brasília, as well as research experience with social movements and transitional justice, analysis of public policies, events secretariat, media monitoring, and web communication. Themes of interest: human rights, development, gender, political economy, indigenous peoples, and Latin America.
PART OF THE GENDER SEMINAR SERIES
The Gender Centre has developed this series of research seminars in order to offer a platform for exchange for students, doctoral students in particular, and researchers whose work includes a gender perspective. During this monthly series, researchers have the opportunity to discuss their work, meet peers from different disciplines at the Graduate Institute, as well as interact with other students, guest speakers and faculty members.
See the programme of this semester's Gender Seminar Series here.