Mapeando a rede ecológica na região de Pelotas: um estudo etnográfico sobre a organização e a construção de sentidos da rede local

Abstract

The present study proposes to analyze the organization of ecological network in the region of Pelotas in order to deal with, from the definitions of their own players, the main elements builders of meanings that seem to make sense to the local network. The study scenario is the region of Pelotas and their spaces of marketing of ecological products such as ecological fairs, shops, restaurants and properties of families linked to ecological production in the region. In addition, from the theoretical perspective and methodology of actor-network theory (ANT) it was to prioritize the heterogeneity of actors and connections produced around the relationship of the local network. It was used as methodological resource open interviews and participant observation, tools minted from the ethnographic method. It is discussed, from the field data, the process of invention of ecological category on the local network. To address this issue, we will cover two important concepts in the training of the network: the concepts of alternative agriculture and ecological agriculture. I hope to consider to the reader, as the implementation of the concept of alternative ecological modifies the relations of the network mobilizing other meanings to it. In this sense, in addition to the ideological plan and rational ecological seems to objectivate in daily experience, is in the act of eating, in dealing with the land or even in the preparation of ecological food. Finally, I want to trace the dynamic action of two religious bodies that seem to be influential in the organization of the local network. The first sphere of action linked to religious bodies, which are based on local demands to assist in the organization of the groups, and then the transfer of this role for the State, which attaches to the universe of family farmers demands and definitions in relation to doings of ecological agriculture, from actions far from the reality of local network.