WOMEN AND ECO-TERRITORIAL CONFLICTS. Impacts, Strategies, Resistances

This book aims to analyze the relationships between eco-territorial conflicts and women: the negative impacts that the extractivist model has on their bodies, their families, and their territories, as well as the strategies and resistance of organized women to prevent conflicts from having harmful repercussions on them and their surroundings. Chapter 1. Extractivism as a biopolitical project. Chapter 2. Eco-territorial conflicts in Latin America and their impacts on women. Chapter 3. Patriarchy, machismo, and racism in extractive-context societies. Chapter 4. Gender-based violence in contexts of eco-territorial conflicts. Chapter 5. Human rights defenders and extractive companies. Chapter 6. Toward the construction of a proposal for the defense of women's rights in contexts of extractive companies. Conclusions. Bibliography.