Agroecology, decoloniality and popular education

Abstract

The movements for the land and agroecology, especially in the South American context, over the last decades have built and defined new ways of producing and consuming food, inhabiting the planet and opposing the system of capitalist domination. Adopting the decolonial perspective as a theoretical frame of reference, the present contribution, starting from an ethnographic investigation co-constructed with the militants of the Brazilian Sem Terra Movement (MST), highlights how the pedagogical urgency of defining within rural and popular schools new educational and curricular paths oriented towards a new ecological ethics is actively contributing to the formation of a new ecological citizenship, global and intersectional, activating new processes of emancipation from below and generating new hypotheses of coexistence and forms of participation and conflict.