Transdisciplinary Praxis in the construction of an environmental rationality

André Vinícius Freire Baleeiro; Agustina Rosa Echeverría

doi:10.5327/Z2176-94782690

Authors

André Vinícius Freire Baleeiro Federal University of Goiás (UFG) - Brazil https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3595-8982
Agustina Rosa Echeverría Federal University of Goiás (UFG) - Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6547-1573

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5327/Z2176-94782690

Keywords:

philosophy of praxis; transdisciplinarity; environmental epistemology; popular engineering; ontology.

Abstract

What are the obstacles to sustainability? The answer largely hinges on understanding the nature of existence, the relationship between society and nature, and the focus on certain metabolic functions given by the capitalist economy. A new environmental rationality must think and act differently from the current hegemonic rationality. To this end, it will be necessary to mediate processes of dialogue and conflict among interdisciplinary, intercultural, and inter-ontological knowledge, in which different subjects need to make decisions and act in reality. This paper addresses the theoretical formulation and some results of a research project that follows three socio-environmental ventures in the three sectors of the economy to design how this Transdisciplinary Praxis would take place. Action-reflection for the construction of a Circular and Solidarity Bioeconomy.

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