Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine Pampas

This article provides an ethnographic analysis of the agency of women who reside in the rural areas of the Argentine Pampas, based on their promotion and production of agroecological family horticulture. The recognition of these women’s agency through care – care of their children, global care, and...

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Autor: Kunin, Johana R
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:ARGENTINA
CARE
RURAL
WOMEN
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spelling Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine PampasKunin, Johana RARGENTINACARERURALWOMENhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.4https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5This article provides an ethnographic analysis of the agency of women who reside in the rural areas of the Argentine Pampas, based on their promotion and production of agroecological family horticulture. The recognition of these women’s agency through care – care of their children, global care, and green care – offers a significant challenge to some metrocentric and Eurocentric feminist perspectives that claim care work can only be oppressive for women. The first of these types of care empowers women to improve the nutrition of their children. It also relates to another underlying type of care, which is to provide a sufficiently robust education as to ensure their children have a better and alternative future. The second type of care has the power to socially transform the territorial space of the district’s countryside and its marginalized populations which, through care, acquire greater public and political attention. The third type of care empowers women to transform and care for the environment, and is exercised by not using pesticides in horticultural production and by disseminating knowledge on the matter. In line with discussions of postcolonial feminism (Abu-Lughod, 1986; Mahmood, 2001; Suárez Navaz, 2008), I argue that certain properties that are attributed to women relative to caregiving – by way of a dichotomous view of gender relations – fuel their agency: for these women the cultivation of vegetables is a form of agency that actively combats food, training and labor inequality.Fil: Kunin, Johana R. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaSocial Justice Research Institute2023-03info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/220208Kunin, Johana R; Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine Pampas; Social Justice Research Institute; Studies in Social Justice; 17; 2; 3-2023; 185-2031911-4788CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.26522/ssj.v17i2.3404info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2024-05-08T13:48:39Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/220208instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982024-05-08 13:48:40.12CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
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title Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine Pampas
spellingShingle Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine Pampas
Kunin, Johana R
ARGENTINA
CARE
RURAL
WOMEN
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.4
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
title_short Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine Pampas
title_full Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine Pampas
title_fullStr Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine Pampas
title_full_unstemmed Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine Pampas
title_sort Rural Women Redefining Care and Agency in the Argentine Pampas
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Kunin, Johana R
author Kunin, Johana R
author_facet Kunin, Johana R
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv ARGENTINA
CARE
RURAL
WOMEN
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.4
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
topic ARGENTINA
CARE
RURAL
WOMEN
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.4
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
description This article provides an ethnographic analysis of the agency of women who reside in the rural areas of the Argentine Pampas, based on their promotion and production of agroecological family horticulture. The recognition of these women’s agency through care – care of their children, global care, and green care – offers a significant challenge to some metrocentric and Eurocentric feminist perspectives that claim care work can only be oppressive for women. The first of these types of care empowers women to improve the nutrition of their children. It also relates to another underlying type of care, which is to provide a sufficiently robust education as to ensure their children have a better and alternative future. The second type of care has the power to socially transform the territorial space of the district’s countryside and its marginalized populations which, through care, acquire greater public and political attention. The third type of care empowers women to transform and care for the environment, and is exercised by not using pesticides in horticultural production and by disseminating knowledge on the matter. In line with discussions of postcolonial feminism (Abu-Lughod, 1986; Mahmood, 2001; Suárez Navaz, 2008), I argue that certain properties that are attributed to women relative to caregiving – by way of a dichotomous view of gender relations – fuel their agency: for these women the cultivation of vegetables is a form of agency that actively combats food, training and labor inequality.
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