Women display on artisanal fisheries: cultural tranformation on the south of Chile

Abstract

When it comes to artisanal fishing, traditional development models dealing with environmental and productive crisis do not take into account the perspectives of women and their everyday life. The objective of this research is to describe the participation of women in Chilean artisanal fishing sector, using reviews from secondary sources, bibliography reviews and ethnographic notes. Analytically, these records are reads from two points of view; i) from productive and territorial transformations, and ii) understanding artisanal fishery as a cultural system. The description highlights the role of women in the transformation processes, as well as their knowledge and environmental practices, in future scenarios that recognize them as a critical alternative that transcends the administrative logics of extraction from domestic spaces.