| Journal: | Revista brasileira do Caribe |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000308992 |
| ISSN: | 1518-6784 |
| Authors: | Borges, Manuela1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa. Portugal |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Season: | Ene-Jun |
| Volumen: | 7 |
| Number: | 14 |
| Pages: | 483-499 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Portugués |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Descriptivo |
| Spanish abstract | En Guinea Bissau los procedimientos y el funcionamiento de la economía en las empresas privadas y organismos públicos, tal como en las pequeñas empresas familiares, están caracterizados por la utilización de principios informales. La informalidad depende de las redes sociales y de la capacidad para movilizar los recursos sociales necesarios para el éxito de cualquier emprendimiento. Ella es un fenómeno no sólo jurídico y/o económico, también define las estrategias sociales y las representaciones culturales polisémicas, heterogéneas, fluídas y ambiguas producidas en el contexto pos colonial y de la globalización contemporánea |
| English abstract | This article attempts to identify the social, economic, cultural and political role of the African women in organizing informal activities of an economic and associative nature, in the context of the expansionist and assimilationist societies resulting from processes of globalization, namely, those unleashed by Portuguese/ western/Christian expansion. This article builds on field research on economic and social strategies of bideiras (vendors of fish) in Bissau, and on a comparative study of women’s organizations focusing on feminine logics, practices and strategies – informal, hybrid and ambiguous – which transform living experiences of women by overcoming the economic precariousness, marginalization, social subalternization and physical and symbolic violence of their everyday lives. The analysis of the economic, social and political strategies and organizations of resistance and struggle for power, developed by women, focuses on the cultural representations of Black women, past and present, including those which inform the construction of identities and contribute to their present social condition, as well as those on which Black women have historically based their strategies of resistance and transformative innovation |
| Portuguese abstract | Na Guiné-Bissau os procedimentos e o funcionamento da economia nas empresas privadas e organismos públicos, tal como nas pequenas empresas familiares, são caracterizados pela utilização de princípios informais. Ora a informalidade depende de redes sociais e da capacidade para mobilizar os recursos sociais necessários para o êxito de qualquer empreendimento. Ela é um fenômeno não só jurídico e/ou econômico, caracterizando igualmente os domínios das estratégias sociais e das representações culturais e recobre fenômenos culturais e sociais/econômicos polissêmicos, heterogêneos, fluidos e ambíguos produzidos no contexto pós-colonial e da globalização contemporânea |
| Disciplines: | Historia, Economía |
| Keyword: | Historia social, Historia regional, Condiciones económicas, Guinea Bissau, Poscolonialismo, Género, Economía, Asociaciones, Comerciantes |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
