COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

other epistemologies

Abstract

This text aims to discuss other epistemologies from the proposal of Tefé National Forest (Flona-Tefé) peoples´ participation. During this walk of research and reflection in Amazonas inland, we realized that the term community occupies a central place. Almost everything in the life of forest is built through communities and in a community way, including the process of women's participation. Based on the perspective that community and political female participation has increased in recent years, mainly provided for the access to education, training and the desire to implement public policies, gender and salary equality, the present paper intends to show, based on the meetings and the researches developed with the Flona-Tefé community, the motivations and the satisfaction of these women in the public sphere participation.