Our sixth Illuminator - Lourivania Soares Santos
On February 18th, 2023, Lourivania Soares Santos joined us in the Green Tent Circle, Watch the recording below!
Lourivania Soares SantosLourivania Soares Santos is a Journalist graduated from Faculdade Social da Bahia. Master and PhD in the Multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Culture and Society at the Federal University of Bahia, she is also part of the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies in Culture and Society (CULT-UFBA). She is a parliamentary advisor with experience at the Commission for the Defense of Women's Rights, the Commission on Human Rights and Public Security and the Women's Caucus of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia, in addition to having experience in press relations and political campaigns. She is an activist of social movements and has been dedicated to projects and studies related to communication, cultures, identities, youth, gender, solidary economy and sertões/semi-arid regions.
The Pintadas Project The absence of having public policies held back the people of Brazilian Northeast until the people of the municipality of Pintadas demanded their rights in 1980s. The Catholic Church, Basic Ecclesiastic Communities (CEBs), a progressive grassroots organizing movement partnered with civil society organizations in Brazil and other countries, creating a mighty force for a pioneering experience that is highly successful: The Pintadas Project. This brought together innovative social technologies for coexistence with the semi-arid region. Construction of water storage combined with techniques for managing the use of water and producing inputs for periods of drought. The Pintadas Networked formed in 1999 developed programs to improve the social and economic empowerment of women, the social inclusion of youth through culture, encouraging associations, collaboration and solidarity economic, water, food and nutrition security of vulnerable families and the sustainability of family farming. |
"The Pintadas Network formed in 1999 developed programs to improve the social and economic empowerment of women, the social inclusion of youth through culture, encouraging associations, collaboration and solidarity economic, water, food and nutrition security of vulnerable families and the sustainability of family farming. " They are the first city in the Northeast to reach 100% of rural household with water collection. Women's leadership played and important role on past and present achievements, bringing people together for dialogue and political participation: from the election of one of them to become their mayor and to turn water issues into public policies. The women fight in defense of their water, their environment, towards economic autonomy, against violence and towards a greater political participation at local, regional and national levels, and being leaders in the global women's networks and movement.
Leader Lourivania Soares Santos is a journalist, master and doctor of Culture and Society, parliamentary advisor in the Commissions for the Defense of Women's Rights and human Right and Public Safety. She is a feminist and solidarity economy activist, a Women's Rights Counselor for the state of Bahia,and one of the coordinators of the Brazilian Grassroots Women Resilience Practitioners Platform, articulated by the Rede Pintadas. They are linked to the Hauirou Commission, an international grassroots women's organization. Lourivania will attend the UN Commission on the Status of Women representing Hauirou Commission, through the Rede Pintadas, she develops actions and research in defense of the semi-airid region, where she addresses issues of the right to water and environmental resilience. |
Drip-irrigation system run by a female family farmer, Pintadas
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Map of the project region
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Video
Books
Semi-arid Sertão: The deconstruction of aridity Paperback – July 27, 2018
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From the Coexistence proposal, a symbolic perspective emerges that produces new displacements in thinking about the Semiarid Region, demystifying the process of institution of the region as an exclusively natural problem, but as a result of a social, political and historical process.
This work analyzes the meanings of “Living with the Semiarid” and to what extent its sayings and practices contribute to the re-signification of this territorial space. Its proposal is based on a set of initiatives that range from productive practices appropriate to this region to educational actions inserted in this context and based on a relationship of sustainability agreed between man/woman, culture and nature. What is the influence of this paradigm on identity dimensions, as well as on the possible reconfiguration of the popular imagination are some questions of this study that still presents, in an interdisciplinary way, the genealogy and discursive memory about the region. This work is the result of a master's thesis in the Multidisciplinary Program in Culture and Society (IHAC/UFBA) supervised by Professor Rita Aragão. |
Articles
journals.openedition.org/factsreports/
3830 Dryland adaptation in Northeast Brazil: Lessons from a community-based pilot project (openedition.org)
Farmers Know Best: How Restoration in the Brazilian Drylands Can Learn from Those Who Live There | WRI Brasil
3830 Dryland adaptation in Northeast Brazil: Lessons from a community-based pilot project (openedition.org)
Farmers Know Best: How Restoration in the Brazilian Drylands Can Learn from Those Who Live There | WRI Brasil