Open AccessCommunity environmental education and the struggle for water
Author(s) -
Bárbara Pelacani,
Anne Kassiadou Menezes,
Daniel Renaud Camargo,
Celso Sánchez,
Marcelo Aranda Stortti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
praxis and saber/praxis and saber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2462-8603
pISSN - 2216-0159
DOI - 10.19053/22160159.v12.n28.2021.11470
Subject(s) - environmental education , perspective (graphical) , environmental justice , community education , political science , environmental adult education , sociology , environmental ethics , environmental planning , pedagogy , geography , law , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science
In this article, we propose to reflect on the environmental education that emerges from the conflict over the construction project of the Guapiaçu dam, in Cachoeiras de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro. To this end, we start from the perspective of community environmental education developed by the Environmental Education Study Group from the South, especially in the interaction with the Movement of Dam Affected People, for the pursuit of environmental justice. Thus, such meetings unveil the necropolitical bias of this “development” project, that clashes with farmers and with life in this territory. Therefore, we highlight the communityenvironmental education, interwoven from the encounter with the voices and the waters that flow through this environment, as a possible way to confront a necropedagogy that supports such necropolitics.