History of agroecology from the cores to the peripheries: genealogy, disputes and transformations

CASAS’ member Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach has published an article in Em Tese, a journal in Portuguese.

Abstract: In Brazil, many studies analyze agroecology on a local scale. However, there is a lack of sociological studies that analyze the effects of its adoption in a broader geopolitical context, and complexify the power relations present around its dissemination and practice. This article presents a contextualized genealogy of the conditions in which agroecology emerged and spread around the world, from the 1930s to the present day, demonstrating that its dissemination from the core to the periphery (from core countries to peripheral countries; from academia to rural communities and social movements), and then back to the core (from social movements to NGOs, state and corporate policies), has implied profound reframings of the term. We conclude that the transformations that the term “agroecology” has undergone and the current disputes over its meaning are related to different historical moments, social actors and power relations that cover the dialectic of knowledge-power in the construction of knowledge.

Read the full article in Portuguese: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/emtese/article/view/98317

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