Transnational Networks of Peasant Women in Latin America: A Spatial Scale Perspective

In Latin America many peasant women work in transnational networks to strengthen their demands and have greater incidence at different scales. This proposal is part of an ongoing doctoral research that seeks to analyze the transnational networks of peasant women in Latin America from the perspectives of critical and feminist geopolitics, based on the analysis of the construction and the relationship between spatial scales. It seeks to understand how they are organized and how they construct a regional agenda of demands not only as peasants, but also as women, trying to bring the debate beyond the statecentric perspectives, understanding that the life of women and their political activities are often built on local scale, where the everyday life happens . Food sovereignty is in this work a useful example to understand how women are appropriating a demand and are capable of bringing together in them so many. Keeping the gender perspective as transversal to research seems important insofar as the object / subject of study is the transnational networks of women.