Mujeres, luchas por la tierra y reconstrucción de los bienes comunales

Abstract

It addresses the importance of the concept of “commons” −managed and controlled collectively, which involve an intense social cooperation− in the international arena and from the perspective of social justice, placed between public and private. We review the World Bank’s definition of natural resources as “global commons” that serve to legitimize enclosures under the guise of conservation. It examines the conflict that is generated by the shared management of natural resources, which international financial institutions exploit for their own purposes. There are movements carried out by women in Africa to fight for land rights, in contrast to the prevailing trend towards privatization, they assume control of public land to cultivate it for the subsistence of their own families. It is shown that disparities based on gender differences, creates dynamics that consolidate market dominance over agricultural relations, weaken the solidarity among women and men over the fence that circles the communal property by state enterprises and international institutions.