Women from the Pirocaba Agroextractivist Territory, in Abaetetuba, in the Baixo Tocantins
region, actively participate in resistance movements against the installation of the Private Use
Terminal by the Cargill global trader, aimed at accelerating the export of commodities, mainly
soybeans and corn. Women from Pirocaba dedicate themselves to working in activities such as
agroecological agriculture, extractivism, craftwork and fishing, recording production in
Agroecological Logbooks, instruments based on feminist economics, aimed at valuing women's
work and production. It is argued that the use of Logbooks since 2018 has encouraged the
productive and socio-territorial organization of Pirocaba, among other benefits. This thesis
adopts action research as its main methodology in order to understand how counter-hegemonic
communication, which opposes the hegemony of large media corporations, can strengthen
Pirocaba women's resistance by promoting visibility of their Amazonian ways of life and the
feminist and popular economy that they practice. In the first stage of the research, the potential
of Agroecological Logbooks was investigated to support territorialized communication
processes facing the challenges experienced by women of the Pirocaba territory. In the second
stage, we proceeded to understand how large enterprises, especially Cargill's Private Use
Terminal project in Abaetetuba, use “community relations” tools to defend their hegemonic
interests. In the final stage of the research, conversation circles and communication workshops
were put into practice with a group of women from the territory, resulting in the creation of the
Vozes do Pirocaba podcast, an instrument of agroecological, feminist and popular territorial based communication carried out in a participatory manner throughout its design and
distribution process.
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