Arpilleras: socializing the political artwork that represents the denunciations of women affected by dams in northeastern territories

Abstract

Faced with capitalist-patriarchal-racist developmentalism, women are among the most invisible and violated portion of the silenced populations. In this context, the women of the Dam-Affected Movement (MAB) rescued the arpilleras, a textile technique used by the Chileans as an instrument of political and social struggle during the military dictatorship period in the country (1973-1990). This article aims to socialize arpilleras produced by the affected women, as a tool to denounce the violations of rights to which their bodies and their territories are subjected. Thus, through political screens, women hit by dams embroider the defense by their territories and their ways of life, from the conflicts and resistances present in their communities of the Northeastern Semiarid.