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KUNIN, Johana. When the agroecological and respected childbirth paradigms do not find the expected appeal. Soc. relig. [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.60, pp.8-8. ISSN 0326-9795.

After conducting an extensive ethnographic study in a rural district of the Argentine Pampas, I analyze the encounters and, above all, the misunderstandings between promoters and recipients of two public policies. The first one promotes agroecological agricultural production paradigms in a context of intense environmental risk due to the use of pesticides. The second encourages participants to seek a "respected" childbirth within the framework of national campaigns against obstetric violence. In both cases, the ideas of "nature" are associated in an emic way with universes with intense levels of spiritualization and "ideologization" on the part of those who promote the policies. Many of the recipients or intended recipients of such innovative and alternative policies, ignore them, reject them or appropriate them. I propose then to think about the political dimension of these processes at three levels: looking at what happens with the recipients of these public policies, what happens with the policies’ promoters and finally, with those of us who study them. In this sense, sociocentric views from the state, academia and some feminisms are criticized.

Palavras-chave : childbirth; agroecology; rural; spirituality; women.