Mobilizações e práticas de resistência: uma etnografia entre recicladoras na Associação de Reciclagem de Lixo Seletivo Esperança (ARSELE)

Abstract

This article aims to understand the daily practices of resistance and social mobilizations that permeate the work routine of women who work with selective garbage collection in the city of Santa Maria/RS. This ethnographic research, with participant observation with the group of workers of the Associação de Reciclagem Coletivo Esperança (ARSELE), began in 2018 and was conducted throughout 2019. The guiding problem of this study is to understand the role of women recyclers in the associative context and how they agency daily practices of resistance and mobilization. During the course of the research, it was possible to observe the issues related to garbage recycling in Santa Maria and the instrumentalities of these practices as a response to the adversities faced in the face of crisis situations. Thus, it becomes relevant a study inserted in this context of informal occupation that makes it possible to reflect on notions of resistance, work and female agency, articulated among themselves.