"Vamos fazer-nos ouvir": ativismo climático de crianças na floresta local

UIDB/04647/2020 UIDP/04647/2020Este estudo visa compreender a potencialidade de dispositivos participativos no ativismo de crianças, procurando perceber como problematizam e como intervêm em questões ambientais da floresta local. Envolveu, durante três meses consecutivos, 22 crianças com dez anos do 4.º ano do 1.º ciclo do ensino básico em momentos de participação, numa lógica de ação-reflexão. Com base numa abordagem de perfil comunitário, as crianças investigaram a floresta local e foram implicadas num processo de exploração dos problemas e de identificação de soluções para as questões que identificaram como pertinentes. Os dados foram recolhidos através de vários dispositivos: diários de bordo, desenhos e projetos elaborados pelas crianças; fotografias, vídeos do processo, e notas de terreno da investigadora contendo registos de discussões conjuntas com as crianças e de conversas informais com familiares; e entrevistas semiestruturadas com as professoras. A análise revela as crianças como agentes ambientais com práticas ativistas, por exemplo, ações coletivas que desenvolveram na floresta, a solicitação de parcerias na comunidade para a resolução de problemas ambientais locais e a organização de uma manifestação na comunidade, para se fazerem ouvir. A aprendizagem na floresta não só promoveu uma tomada de consciência por parte das crianças, designadamente a respeito do impacto da visão dominante antropocêntrica na sustentabilidade, como também as motivou a pôr em prática o seu ativismo ambiental.publishersversionpublishe

Civil participation between private and public spheres: the island sphere and fishing communities in the Azores archipelago

This paper discusses civic participation with reference to fishing communities in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. We explore how concepts and political processes actively exclude people, and how researchers could dig deeper to find opportunities to build from diverse cultural practices of participation. Specifically, we describe examples of efforts towards participatory sustainable development as well as introduce a centuries-old highly participatory practice of sharing food. The rituals of the Cult of the Holy Spirit, based on sharing and justice, are an example of strong civic engagement rich with possibility from which to build alternatives to current forms of participation for fisheries governance. We suggest that islands offer understandings of human social interactions in ways that larger landmasses might not. This is a call for reflection on images underlying our understandings of participation and governing the sea commons, and looking more closely at islanders and their long held practices

Speaking of the sea in the Azores islands: We sometimes went for lapas

This presentation highlights five years of learning from coastal fishing communities in the Azores islands, Portugal. We used photo-elicitation and focus groups to invite people to speak about the sea and all the deep, complex and sometimes contradictory meanings that it may have. The researchers sought environmental justice within the everyday processes using deep ethnographic and autobiographic-narrative inquiry which lead to participation in learning about as well as supporting collaborations between fishers, scientists and policy makers. This work calls for looking at the sea through new eyes, hearing with new ears, feeling differently and awakening to the possibility of knowing the sea in unfamiliar way

In the Azores, looking for the regions of knowing

This multi-voice script highlights the process of five years of research with coastal fishing communities in the Azores islands of Portugal. Initially, we used photo elicitation and focus groups to invite people to speak about the sea and all the deep, complex and sometimes contradictory meanings that it may have. In later years, the researchers sought environmental justice within everyday processes, using deep ethnographic and autobiographic-narrative inquiry which led to participation in learning about - as well as supporting - collaborations between fishers, scientists and policy makers. The text is constructed via arts-informed research methodology and consists of two parallel, creative narratives, intermittently interrupted by a visual narrative. This work calls for looking at the sea through new eyes, hearing with new ears, feeling differently and awakening to the possibility of knowing the sea in unfamiliar ways

Blind Running: 25 Pictures Per Page

This experiential visual open work is built from a myriad of words, languages, cultures, and critical theories. . . . books and bombs, dance and record labels, mothers and daughters, small villages and islands, diaries and story, colonization and immigration, violence and healing, leaving and returning . . . wild animals It is a collaborative attempt to use untranslated images and untranslated embodied praxis trusting in one another to look out for the enhanced dangers of running to meet gruelling deadlines and unrelenting competition for survival in the academy while at the same time stubbornly resisting, via a blindfold, the reigning forms of knowing and communication