Reflections on Ecofeminist Craft Practices and Environmental Pedagogy. For a Policy of Human and Non-human Nature

Abstract

In the present article, the objective of this study is to analyze the practices of eco-feminist craftsmanship as the driving force of environmental pedagogy capable of transforming human relations (and of humans with nature), as well as the possibility of breaking the backbone of contemporary abyssal thinking. To this end, I argue that the central axis of this rupture is underway in the social, political, economic and cultural dynamics that go up against the impositions of the market conceived today, after several reinventions of the modern capitalist system. In harmony with the thoughts and practices of ecofeminist craftsmanship, environmental pedagogy emerges to prepare women and men for the uncertainties of tomorrow at home on Earth, in addition to composing another rationality: environmental. The interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary theoretical deepening developed in this work aim to encourage the dialogue between beings and knowledge so that other knowledge can transform and (re) construct the human and nonhuman continuity in the planet. The current crisis is global, but possible responses are situated; a theory (of a general and abstract nature) does not reach the concrete and particular realities of each experience contained in the world's biodiversity. In this way, I identify in the initiative and practice of sustainable food production and income generation, from the Group of Women Decided to Win, from the Mulunguzinho settlement (Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil) a contextualized ecofeminist pedagogical achievement.