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KROHLING-PERUZZO, Cicilia M.  y  GONZALEZ, Jorge A.. Agroecology and anthroponomy in Brazil social movements: “If the rest of them are fine, I’m doing even better”. Inter disciplina [online]. 2018, vol.6, n.14, pp.205-235.  Epub 15-Feb-2021. ISSN 2448-5705.  https://doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485705e.2018.14.63387.

The aim of this text is to observe the cultural changes and the development of collective forms of organization towards the constitution of a self-sustainable agroecological praxis. At the core of our argument is the claim that every successful social movement embarks on a necessary redefinition of the commons (Poteete, Janssen & Ostrom 2012), and of its role in self-determination of its life. This happens when they concentrate on the recovery and redesign of the conditions of material and symbolic production of their bodies and their imaginary, which, in the case of these peasants, also necessarily includes their material, symbolic and practical relation to the earth, water, plants, in a word, with nature (Toledo 2004). Through direct observation and oral testimonies of its protagonists, we document the ways in which the inhabitants of two localities based on two very different ecosystems are enacting their present and future conditions through agroecological practices, that make possible the conquest of the property of the conditions of their own production as social beings.

Every social movement empowers those who, within it, mobilize, both individually and in the collective sense. The practices of social movements energize in various ways vast sectors of de-energized in history. In the case of these peasants, their empowerment necessarily resulted in the recovery of land, recognition and development of their capacities and knowledge to generate life where there was almost no food in areas of scarcity, design and construction of their home, appropriation and redefinition of its territory and its landscape, finally reinvented by those who along centuries were victims of exploitation systems, that is, of the permanent extraction of their social energy. Through their collective organization, both have become the designers and producers of their own well-being, which in both cases presented, includes the option of agroecology and the reinvention of their practices with the development of information, communication and knowledge. This paper offers a first approach to these social processes, still in progress.

Palabras llave : agroecology; social movements; basic ecclesial communities; anthroponomy; knowledge.

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