Abya Yala feminist tissues: Communal Feminism, Decolonial Perspective and Intercultural Education

Abstract

The communal feminism was born in the beginning of the 21th century. It’s a social movement that is present in several countries of the American continent. It has its origins in the fights of resistance of the indigenous women against the colonial patriarchal capitalist system before the systematical practices of violation of their rights, the rights of their communities and peoples, as the violation of the nature rights and the savage exploitation of the natural resources. It’s a movement with a strong political angle.

The article begins introducing the origins of the communal feminism. In the second part, considered as the main part of the text, it carries out a reading of the principal focus and characteristics of the communal feminism from a decolonial perspective. It also points out some of the communal feminism contributions to the intercultural education, having as reference the conceptual map of its expression, constructed by the Group of Studies about Daily, Education and Culture/s (GECEC) of the Department of Education of Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro. Finally, as a third moment, we ‘weave’ some final considerations, leaving the tissue opened, because the movement, as the lives of the women which are part of the movement and their peoples and territories, are built in the fights, in the confrontations, and in the daily resistances defending a decent life and with the recognition of everyone rights.