Participação das mulheres no movimento pela reabertura do Caminho do Colono (1986-2013)

Abstract

"Caminho do Colono", an eighteen-kilometer road which cross the Iguassu National Park, between the cities of Serranópolis do Iguaçu and Capanema, in the West region of Paraná, became the scene of several conflicts in recent years. On one side, people who defend the permanence of the road closure, on the other side, the ones who agree with its reopening. These conflicts have generated several debates, clashes and discussion among environmental agencies, government representatives and locals, reflecting on environmental issues nationally discussed. In the way that the road crosses the Iguassu National Park, any matter or discussion about it, involves other areas of preservation. In 1997, ten years after the first road closure, locals, tired of waiting for judgments, organized themselves, occupied the road and started using it again. From this occupation, several clashes occurred, promoting a series of closures and reopenings which marked and still mark the history of the road and the population of the neighboring cities of the Park. Social people from different groups driven by multiple reasons participated in public actions. However, by searching for information related to "Movimento Pró-Reabertura do Caminho do Colono" (Motion for Reopening the "Caminho do Colono"), we notice that in both records made by press and works, the testimonials are predominantly male, thus setting the motion as of and made by men. The interviews we collect, unlike, point to another direction, they demonstrate that women participated in large numbers along the process of claim, in public and sometimes, direct actions, in clashes with police. Hence, the central concern of this study is to analyze the participation of women in "Movimento Pró-Reabertura do Caminho do Colono". How do women from the city and from the countryside, with different background and roles in society, understand the closure and public actions for the reopening of the road? How have they participated? How do they evaluate the constitution of their subjectivity from experiences of claim, specially the ones from camps along the "Caminho do Colono"?