A (in)visibilidade das mulheres nos conflitos hídricos: um olhar a partir da ecologia política feminista latinoamericana

Abstract

Latin America is the region with the greatest abundance of water, an essential resource for life. Despite the availability of the resource, distribution is not homogeneous, mainly due to inefficient management and gender, race and class inequalities. Understanding the existence of water inequality and the universal rights of access to the resource, International Organizations, from the 1970s onwards, began to devise ways for equal access. However, international propositions were unable to narrow the gender inequality gaps in access to water, public policies, entry into decision-making environments and the differentiated impacts caused by environmental-water conflicts. The objective of this work is to understand the invisibility of women in environmental-water conflicts, through research into the relationship between women and water, and the identification of the main generator of this type of conflict, megaprojects, using the perspective of Latin American Feminist Political Ecology. The work is divided into two axes, the theoretical, which uses bibliographic review as a methodology, and the empirical axis, which, through conflict maps (EJ ATLAS, FIOCRUZ, OCMAL), complements the first axle. It is concluded that there is a contrast between: the invisibility of women in Water Governance scenarios in Latin America observed in conflict maps and the visibility present in the bibliographic review and in spaces for environmental-water justice fights