Seed healers: between empowerment and strategic essentialism

Authors

  • Beatriz Eugenia Cid Aguayo Universidad de Concepción
  • Javiera Soledad Hinrichs Universidad de Concepción

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/%25x

Abstract

Women’s networks of central-south Chile have taken the challenge of caring for native seeds against the homogenizing and predator agri-food regime. To do so, they declare themselves as reproducers of life, and privileged keepers of agrobiodiversity, from a strongly essentialist language. Is it really an empowering choice? What costs and possibilities does this essentialism involve? We believe it is possible to state that the essentialism represented by the seed healers is not only politically strategic, but contraessentialist in its results, contributing significantly to deconstruct traditional sex roles and hegemonic developmentalism.

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Published

2015-05-26

How to Cite

Aguayo, B. E. C., & Hinrichs, J. S. (2015). Seed healers: between empowerment and strategic essentialism. Revista Estudos Feministas, 23(2), 347–370. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2015)

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