Abstract This work analyses how women question experiences of violence in land conflicts in Pinhão, Paraná, Southern Brazil. Land conflicts strike at the very foundation of the livelihood of families and communities, having a direct bearing on houses, which are places that objectify the occupation of the land and where ties of belonging between subjects and territories are woven. Land is home; land and violence are therefore also constituted as problems for women and as matters that encompass gender relations. In women's narratives, violence is appraised through ethical ways of family and community living, and emerges in the following concrete acts: killings, house fires, threats, ambushes, and evictions. These acts intrude on the enduring conviviality of everyday life and the relations that compose communities.
Neste trabalho, discutimos as dimensões éticas de conflitos envolvendo cachorros no Sertão dos Inhamuns (CE) e no interior do município de Pinhão (PR). Identificados com seus donos e com as terras em que vivem, a mobilidade dos cães têm um papel crucial na constituição e na negociação cotidianas dos espaços rurais. Tais deslocamentos, contudo, podem motivar conflitos quando os cachorros atacam os animais de criação de seus donos ou, pior, de outras pessoas. Assim sendo, a vida social dos cachorros nas localidades onde realizamos nossas pesquisas vai além de sua relação com seus donos, adentrando e estremecendo a boa convivência entre pessoas que habitam uma mesma vizinhança em que o pastoreio dos rebanhos animais é uma atividade de grande importância social, histórica e econômica. Ao refletir comparativamente sobre os julgamentos éticos que perpassam tais eventos, entendemos o emaranhado de relações que constitui a vida social de tais localidades rurais como uma comunidade moral interespecífica.Palavras-chave: Ética. Mobilidade. Conflito. Pastoreio. Comunidade moral.Dogs that attack herds: ethical reflections on mobility and social life of animals in rural landscapes AbstractIn this article, we discuss the ethical dimensions of conflicts about dogs in Sertão dos Inhamuns, Ceará, and Pinhão, Paraná. Identified with their owners and the lands in which they live, the dogs play a central role in the daily constitution and negotiation of rural spaces. The movements of these animals can motivate conflicts, especially when dogs attack the herds of their owners, or worse, the herds of other people. Therefore, in the localities where we did our fieldworks the social life of dogs goes beyond the relation between them and their owners, entering and shaking also the relations between people who inhabit the same neighborhood or place, and for whom pasturing animals is a major historical, economic and social activity. By analyzing and comparing the ethical judgments that surpass such events, we seek to comprehend the entanglement of relations that constitute the social life of these rural localities as an interspecific moral community.Keywords: Ethics. Mobility. Conflict. Pasturing. Moral Community.
Introdução à seção temática "Mulheres, territorialidades e epistemologias feministas – conflitos, resistências e (re)existências", escrita por suas organizadoras Fabrina Furtado, Ana Carneiro e Dibe Ayoub.
