Horizontal dialogue, agroecology, and CLOC/Vía campesina
In this chapter we argue that the transnational peasant social movement, the Latin American Coordination of Peasant Organizations-Vía Campesina (CLOC/VC), has been critically sustained and shaped by horizontalism in the form of the encounter and diálogo de saberes (dialogue among different knowledges and ways of knowing) that takes place in its interior between different rural cultures1. These are diverse cultural expressions and experiences of peasants, Indigenous people, farmers, rural proletarians, and others. It is our contention that the horizontal processes of consensus building, decision making, and collective construction of new ideas in contemporary transnational rural social movements is done through a diálogo de saberes (DS). As a dialogue among the "absences" left out by the dominant monoculture of ideas and the anti-peasant policies, it has produced important "emergences." One of these ernergences is the politicized and elaborated notion/practice/ movement of agroecology, developed by CLOC/VC. Furthermore, the commitment to a horizontal decision-making process in this form of dialogue, and the unspoken rules by which it takes place, are key elements in the unusual longevity and continued growth of CLOC/NC.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | Movimientos sociales, Campesinos, Agroecología, Artfrosur, |
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