This research studies the narratives of violence and violation of human rights suffered
in the context of the Belo Monte dam construction, inscribed in colorful threedimensional
embroidery, called arpilleras. The arpilleras became known worldwide for
denouncing the cruelty contours of the Military Dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-
1992). In Brazil, this same embroidery technique serves as support for women from
the Women's Collective of the Movement of Dam-Affected People, to embroider the
violence and human rights violations to which they are subjected. This work reflected
on the embroidered arpilleras in the context of the construction of the Belo Monte
Hydroelectric Power Plant, in the State of Pará, Amazon region. Having as analytical
backbone the Abyssal Thought, postulated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the
scientific doing based on Southern Epistemologies, besides reflecting on the struggle
for human dignity and the hegemonic canon of universal human rights. Finally, this
work studies the artisanal character of the struggle undertaken by the embroiderers
women of the Movement of Dam-Afeccted People and how the violence is embodied
in the concrete bodies, be they collective and individual, besides formulating a reading
about the elements contained in arpilleras with the theme of violence and violation of
human rights by recording the testimony of women fighting for human dignity through
embroidery.
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