Reagregando o Social: O percurso metodológico para o relato da “Rede Social de Resistência da Cooperativa Comuna da Terra, Assentamento Mario Lago - SP

Abstract

This paper aims to report strategies that present themselves as an alternative to those implemented by contemporary capitalism (through agribusiness) in Brazil’s agriculture which take into account social, cultural, environmental and political local conditions. To this end, the methodological course carried out for the description of the “social network of resistance” is presented which is established through agroecological production and cooperation-oriented movement. More specifically, this paper will report what were the research processes carried out on the articulation of the "resistance social network" which is composed of family farmers from Mario Lago Settlement - Ribeirão Preto-SP, enolled in the cooperative Comuna da Terra. The research was based on the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and the method described by Bruno Latour in his work: Reassembling the Social, an introduction to the Actor-Network theory. Focusing on the actors' reports obtained within the networks, we sought to address their scientific and political dimensions in order to point out the uncertainties that guide the formation and consolidation of controversies, and thus contribute to understanding them.