Mulheres-negras e políticas para mulheres: analíticas decoloniais sobre sujeitos políticos e políticas públicas municipais em Pernambuco

Abstract

This doctoral thesis is inscribed in Psychology, in a field mindful to discourses, languages and power relations (FOUCAULT, 1986). The objective of this work is to understand who are the political subjects of the public policies regarding to women in different towns in the semiarid region of Pernambuco state. The starting point was feminist theories (HARAWAY, 1995; SCOTT, 1999), then we found ourselves with decolonial epistemologies and methods (QUIJANO, 1992; LUGONES, 2014; MALDONADO-TORRES, 2019). Observant participations were made and, based on these, an interview script was elaborated. The African afrodiasporic academic literature gained relevance for the study (GONZALEZ, 2019; NOBLES; 2009; HUDSON-WEEMS, 2019; OY WÙMÍ, 2019). The three managers interlocutors are black women. In dialogue, we seek to reconstruct memories related to their political-academic backgrounds, as well as the creation of municipal public agencies for women9s policies, main actions and major challenges. The collected fieldwork data were submitted to a fanonial analytical, watchful to the coloniality of the being-power-knowledge (FANON, 2008), revised from the perspective of 'gendered racism' (KILOMBA, 2019). The municipal managers were interpreted as 'aphrodiasporic ialodês' (WERNECK, 2009) and the entire population of the semiarid as 'damné(e)s' (FANON; 2015). The thesis first chapter presents the author, the path to the construction of the research project and epistemological references. In the second, a brief overview of women9s public policies "State of the art". The methodological chapter provides theoretical references for qualitative research and presents the field studied. Then, three analytical chapters; we retrieved excerpts from the biographies of the managers-interlocutors; the arid routine of public management and, finally, strategies for building a policy committed to women9s lives. From this research, we can point that in the 2000s there was a change in the State's attitude regarding to gender issues. In parallel, the racism, a problem of Brazilian cultural formation, remains structuring the public machine.