Brazilian presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff consecutively pursued geopolitical realignments focused on the creation of a multipolar world order with a strengthened, more visible position for Brazil, an emerging world power. Considered by Brazilian policymakers to be expressions of solidarity diplomacy, these concepts and modalities are part of what has been coined Brazil’s “autonomy through diversification” strategy. Since 2003, Brazil has been searching for efficient modalities directed at deepening ties with Latin American and African states, such as knowledge sharing and engaging in dialogue on alternative ways of tackling common development challenges. The proposed approach is the result of previous research, including that carried out for the "Women, War and Peace" project, implemented by the authors as a part of the Europe for 1 As part of Polish war studies, one still cannot find many studies on the mentality and everyday experience and research on the sphere of the so-called sub-political issues considering the intersectional dimension. On the one hand, it is based on the knowledge of observable facts and cultural-social-political phenomena, described in the context of women's studies and war studies in the form of experience, memory and women's problems, and, on the other hand, the interpretation of public discourses 1. This approach allows for the extraction of a new context and development of knowledge concerning the mechanisms of politicizing female experiences resulting from the experience of armed conflict. from the point of view of anthropology and political science. The aim of the article is to present a possible theoretical-methodological approach to violence involving women in situations of conflicts, wars, rebellions, revolutions, etc. The interpretation is crucial because of method used in the research, meaning hermeneutics, but also because of the, presented here, perspective of polyphony. The text introduces the issue of war and conflict, understanding the theory of violence, the category of collective memory and female war narratives, as well as the ways of their political interpretation. The article deals with the subject of relations between theories of violence and the category of collective memory in relation to women's war stories. The authors raise the issue of the genderization of memory in the context of an inquiry into how the pluralism of collective memory and the diversification of the public sphere develops as a result of the discourses and operation of the alternative memory, including gender-focused memory. The paper deals with the tension observed between the politics of memory and the political practice, and the alternative memories that arise from the idea of multiplicity and polyphony, including the voice of women. The article consists of three main parts referring to, respectively, the functioning of memory in the urban public sphere as a form of dialogue (hemerneutic-interpretative anthropology with Jurgen Habermas' and Seyla Benhabib's theories is the theoretical foundation here), the process of gendering memory (appearing alongside the narrative phrase and feminist proposals for the interpretation of memory as a form of its plural-ization), and the presentation of the activities within the Łódź Women's HeritageTrail Foundation's particular initiative-namely 'Women Routes in Łódź'-as a kind of case study for the city as a landscape of memory. The core problem of the paper is a description of a local case of this type of gender 'memory practising' in the area of the public urban sphere, specifically one created by the Łódź Women's Heritage Trail Foundation ()-a gender-profiled female grassroots initiative that is concerned with the city's past. The article is devoted to the process of gendering memory as a counterpoint to the politici-zation of memory observed in the Polish context.
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