Defending Land. Remarks on Gender and Environment in Latin America

Abstract

The environmental conflicts connected to the planetary expansion of extractivism seem to redraw a map of social conflict that is strongly linked to the control of natural resources and the concentration of the earth. Furthermore, the criminalization of social protests seems to be in its great majority the answer to the demands of environmental justice. The distruction of nature is a question that involves many social movements and on which feminist movements are confronting each other. What answers are being developed  to these challenges? What are the instances and the voices that from the various feminist and female realities try to elaborate other vision around the extractivism? The essay try to accomplish an overview about these issues, especially about the connection about extractivism and gender.