Movimentos sociais como produtores de conhecimento: a Soberania Alimentar no Movimento de Pequenos Agricultores (MPA)

• Autor(a) principal: Niemeyer, Carolina Burle de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15491
• topic: Food Sovereignity; Small Farmers Movement(MPA); Via Campesina; Knowledge production; Rural social movements; Social movements; Soberania Alimentar; Movimento de Pequenos Agricultores (MPA); Via Campesina; Produção de Conhecimento; Movimentos Sociais Rurais; Movimentos sociais; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA

This thesis adopts a cognitive and epistemic perspective to the study of social movements, taking the Food Sovereignty in the Movimento dos Pequenos Agricultores: MPA (Small Farmers Movement) as its object of study. We defend the idea that through their practice and discursive action, social movements are waging a struggle that besides political and cultural, is also cognitive and epistemic and that this social dynamics generate new forms of knowledge, such as Food Sovereignty. In this work, food sovereignty is understood as a social program of knowledge that has been developed by the transnational network of social movements Via Campesina and its constituent organizations (among which the MPA), articulated with partner organizations in transnational and transcultural solidarity networks, in opposition to their adversaries and in relation to different contexts and scales of action. Supported by this idea and by the adopted perspective, we focus on the correlations between the local and the global, the particular and the general, and the practical and intellectual dimensions of the prodution of knowledge by social movements, with the intention to achieve our main objective, namely, to reveal aspects of the multidimensionality and multiespaciality of the constitutive dynamics of Food Sovereignty.