De las Asociaciones del PSA a la Cooperativa del MTE: dos décadas de activismo y participación de las mujeres en el Oeste pampeano

Abstract

Genre and Rights perspectives in Public Policies moved from the field of statements to be slowly, tailored and gradually implied in actions. These perspectives find an interstice both among geographies and territories, even though there may still be some inclusions left. In this sense, the aim of this work is to shed some light on the strategies applied by nomadic shepherds in Western La Pampa in relation to active participation experiences and on the scope of the public policies in relation to their everyday lives. Understanding Public Policies as dynamic processes where social and state relationship interact with each other lead to see territories as nourished by them, where problems are particular of different contexts and become determinant to react against and/or reproduce changes and inequalities as well. This article resorts to two National State policies developed from 2006 up to present days. The first of those actions, considered a direct one, was the associative and participative experience of women in the context of the Programa Social Agropecuario (PSA) while the other is and indirect action linked to an organization of producers who were coordinated by the cooperative La Comunitaria (MTE).