Banca de DEFESA: GUILHERME SMANIOTTO TRES

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STUDENT : GUILHERME SMANIOTTO TRES
DATE: 10/02/2021
TIME: 09:30
LOCAL: VIDEOCONFERÊNCIA (meet.google.com/cxh-yeno-vqp)
TITLE:

Ecological praxis in ecovillages: articulation between communal management, concrete labour and plural economy

KEY WORDS:

Intentional communities, Ecovillage, Concrete work, Plural economy, Substantive rationality, Ecological praxis.

PAGES: 194
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Administração
SUMMARY:

In capitalism everything is a commodity, including the natural environment. The
degradation of ecosystems and human life is an immediate consequence. Thus,
intentional communities of ecological motivation, such as ecovillages, seek alternatives
for such a situation. An ecological praxis would be formed in these environments. The
thesis, therefore, aims to delineate the concept of ecological praxis in organizational
studies from multiple economic practices and communal dynamics of lobor and
management in ecovillages. I use the marxian view of concrete labor, which generates
useful things, and abstract, alienating labor, oriented towards the production of goods.
For the economic dimension, a plurality of possible interactions addressed by Karl
Polanyi and Marcel Mauss, incorporating Vandana Shiva in denouncing the
contemporary way of life in terms of monoculture of the mind, in daily material
practices and in relation to the natural environment and agriculture. For communal
management, the central reference is Guerreiro Ramos subsidized by Maurício Serva.
A journey of ethnographic inspiration in four intentional communities and in the 2019
National Meeting of Alternative Communities, totaling 57 days, comprised the
collection of primary data. The initiative in the Comunidade das Formigas, put into
practice at the beginning of the doctoral course, motivated the research and served as a
laboratory for this thesis. As a result of the theoretical-methodological path, the concept
of ecological praxis emerges as a counter-hegemonic pattern of life reproduction that
gives ecovillages specific organizational characteristics anchored in concrete labor,
communal management and economic plurality. Through natural and complex
agricultural practices and experimentation with community life in diversity, which,
ideally, excel in social reproduction and not in capital, the thesis synthesizes
possibilities of labor and economic relations different from those strictly oriented to the
market and abstract labor. Such factors are presented as counterpoints to the alienation
characteristic of the capitalist mode of production that degrades, in addition to nature,
the human being in all its complexity and fits him in processes of predominantly
utilitarian rationality. Organizational management based on substantive rationality, self- 

managed rationality, on the other hand, joins the notion of concrete labor and plural economics to provide support for what I call ecological praxis.

 

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Externo à Instituição - EDUARDO VIVIAN DA CUNHA - UFCA
Externo à Instituição - EUGENIO AVILA PEDROZO - UFRGS
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Interna - 1372521 - MARIA VALERIA PEREIRA DE ARAUJO
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