VOICES AND EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN ENVIRONMENTALISTS: expression and ciberativism on Facebook narratives
Environmentalism. Narratives on Facebook. Digital Discourse. Feminism. Politic.
Considered by the NGO Global Witness as the most dangerous country in the world for environmental activism, Brazil has the highest number of environmentalists murders. Of those, women's battle for expression spaces to disseminate their discourse in environments defense. For centuries, women had their voices silenced and repressed by a patriarchal society, especially in political environments. Currently, women's environmental protagonism is sustained by the internet appropriation, specifically the social networking site Facebook. Even with some obstacles that threaten participation and political deliberation such as inequality of access, censorship and excessive control of networks, the social network sites appropriation by activists can contribute to growthr the reflections and communicative exchanges, transforming behaviors and habits. It is in this space that we study the digital narratives of environmentalists women. Using multiple epistemic-methodological bases, we discuss digital discourses in a constitutive way that qualify all the discursive traits, in order to understand how the construction of those environmentalists narratives on Facebook and how these narratives contribute to the activist expression.