Dinámicas Económicas de las Mujeres Artesanas desde la Perspectiva de la Economía Feminista Interseccional en la Comunidad Bullzhún - El Paño, en Gualaceo. Año 2025

Abstract

The research entitled ‘Economic Dynamics of Women Artisans from the Perspective of Intersectional Feminist Economics in the Bullzhún - El Paño Community, in Gualaceo. Year 2025’ aims to analyse the economic dynamics of women artisans in Bullzhún from the perspective of intersectional feminist economics. The problem lies in the invisibility of craft work, linked to job insecurity, the loss of ancestral knowledge, and the triple workload that exists between craft work, reproductive work, and care work. A qualitative approach with a phenomenological-hermeneutic design was used, which interprets the meaning that people attribute to their experiences in the face of a phenomenon. To select the participants, a non-probabilistic sampling method called snowball sampling was applied, selecting eight women artisans. The data were collected using the individual in-depth interview technique, and the data analysis and coding were carried out using ATLAS.ti. From an intersectional feminist economic perspective, the main findings reveal that the barriers presented in economic dynamics are informality, the devaluation of craft work, work overload, generational and territorial gaps, and the progressive loss of ancestral knowledge. Among the resistance strategies they implement are wholesale sales, the use of social media, the transmission of ancestral knowledge, and family and community support networks.