COEXISTENCE WITH THE SEMI-ARID REGION AS AN EXPRESSION OF GOOD LIVING:

WEAVING A PEASANT EPISTEMOLOGY

Authors

  • LUAN GOMES DOS SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CAMPINA GRANDE/DOCENTE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2447-9837.2025.n19.72052

Abstract

The epistemicide caused by an extractive, colonial development model has brought to the center of the debate the problem of the disappearance of traditional peasant wisdom, due to the hegemony of agribusiness as an imperial economic mode. This paper’s fundamental idea is to identify popular or traditional practices and/or knowledge that, throughout modernity, founded peasant agriculture, as well as the body-territories of the farmers at the Agroecological Fair of Sumé-PB, Northeast Semiarid of Brazil. The objective of this text is to report the experiences within the scope of the Fair. It is also relevant to approach the theme of this research from the point of view of the subjects there studied. The research was therefore guided by the light of participatory research (Brandão, 1981), making use of fieldwork tools such as coexistence, creation and lived experience in order to give visibility to knowledge from an epistemological and political perspective of coexistence with the semi-arid region as a practice of good living. This reflection contributed to understanding how traditional knowledge offers multiple ways of supporting agroecology as a science and policy for life.
KEYWORDS: Traditional Knowledge. Family Farming. Agroecological Fair

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Author Biography

LUAN GOMES DOS SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CAMPINA GRANDE/DOCENTE

Docente da UFCG. Mestre em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, Doutorando em Educação. Antropólogo e Assistente Social.

Fonte: Gomes, Luan. A Caatinga e o caatingueiro. 2025.

Published

2025-11-19

How to Cite

DOS SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA, L. G. (2025). COEXISTENCE WITH THE SEMI-ARID REGION AS AN EXPRESSION OF GOOD LIVING: : WEAVING A PEASANT EPISTEMOLOGY. Altera Journal of Anthropology, (19), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2447-9837.2025.n19.72052

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Dossiê Knowledge, Bodies and Territories in the Anthropocene