SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL KNOW-HOW AND THE COPRODUCTION OF LOCALIZED KNOWLEDGE

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2025.e24001

Abstract

The co-production of knowledge, through socio-environmental know-how, can build closer and more horizontal university-territory relationships. Thus, the objective of this article is to reflect on territorial praxis, considering the importance of socio-environmental know-how as a path to valorizing and activating territorialities. Our place for research-action-reflection is the Madre Maria Domênica Integration Center (CIMMAD), located in the Padre Ulrico neighborhood, in Francisco Beltrão (Paraná, Brazil). As a methodological approach, we developed participatory-action research (PAR), considering the decolonial perspective, as a way of redefining our academic activities. In order to research-act-reflect on the
territory, we chose, together with the subjects involved in the research, to carry out workshops and social cartography. The results make us reflect that this movement contributes to readings of territory as a place of life, in which socio-environmental relations are important sources for the co-production of localized knowledge, based on the construction of popular science or ‘other’ sciences, committed to social transformation.

Keywords: Territory; PAR; Territorial Praxis

Author Biographies

Pamela Cichoski, Federal Technological University of Paraná, Pato Branco (PR), Brazil

Master in Innovative Extension and Sustainable Rural Development from the State University of Western Paraná, PhD student in Regional Development from the Federal Technological University of Paraná, CAPES scholarship holder.

Marlize Rubin-Oliveira, Federal Technological University of Paraná, Pato Branco (PR), Brazil

Professor at the Federal Technological University of Paraná of ​​the Postgraduate Program in Regional Development (PPGDR). Coordinator of the University Study Group (GEU/UTFPR). PhD in Education from the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Hieda Maria Pagliosa Corona, at Federal Technological University of Paraná, Pato Branco (PR), Brazil

Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Regional Development (PPGDR) at the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR); PhD in Environment and Development from the Federal University of Paraná; Leader of the Ariadne Study Group.

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Published
17/05/2025
How to Cite
CICHOSKI, Pamela; RUBIN-OLIVEIRA, Marlize; PAGLIOSA CORONA, Hieda Maria. SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL KNOW-HOW AND THE COPRODUCTION OF LOCALIZED KNOWLEDGE. Mercator, Fortaleza, v. 24, may 2025. ISSN 1984-2201. Available at: <http://www.mercator.ufc.br/mercator/article/view/e24001>. Date accessed: 21 june 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2025.e24001.
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