Ecology of practices and knowledge for local development: territories of socio-environmental autonomy in some traditional communities in the South Center of the State of Paraná, Brazil

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the construction of a methodology that is capable of identifying the resource mobilization capacity of some traditional communities in South Center of Paraná, Brazil, to see to what extent strategies for the construction of their socio-environmental autonomies occur, based on the interconnections between edge systems and hegemonics. To do this, it starts from the experiences of existing collaboration networks between academic actors, community and public agents, through the dialogue of knowledge. As a theoretical foundation for the process, the question is asked whether the ecology of the practices and knowledge of these collective actors are sufficiently dense and whether they are capable of promoting, as ecological subjects, alternatives to development, through the constitution of new systems. Of practices and through the production of other subjectivities.