Terrane: A Decolonial Lens to Read Production Processes in Brazil’s Northeastern Region and the Pedreira Women from Sertão do Pajeú

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n38.07

Paola María Marugán Ricart
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-1988
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco, México
paolamarugan@gmail.com

Abstract:

This article engages in the analysis of the first stage of the creative process known as Terrane, wherein artist Ana Lira starts investigating production processes in water-storage technologies, as experimented by women in Brazilian semi-arid lands, along with their feminist, social, and environmental organization strategies. The analysis articulates a reflection upon modes of production across the Northeastern Region, within the framework of the Brazilian national imaginary, as a disabled territory in need of ongoing tutelage. In that line, I understand Terrane as a decolonial lens that allows us to read/feel in another way the processes of spatial and subjective production among women and the region.

Keywords: creative processes, pedreira women, spatiality, region/nation, feminist organization, decolonial lens.