Dialogues and networks around food sovereignty in critical extension processes: interweaving university and territory

Abstract

This paper reflects on the forms of production of situated and dialogic knowledge, from the integrality of university functions in collaborative processes that entwine relationships and practices together with organizations of family agriculture and social economy in Misiones for food sovereignty. The critical extension approach constitutes the framework that allows us to epistemically and politically problematize our knowledge-generating praxis from the community, social, collective and transforming dialogic encounter, in situated processes that involve social actors and agrarian collectives. Our interdisciplinary team is integrated by students, teachers and graduates, trained and in training, in different careers of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the UNaM (Social Anthropology, Social Communication, Economic Sciences, Treatment and Analysis of Data for Socioeconomic Research), as well as of the Psychology career of the Universidad Cuenca del Plata and of the Nutrition career of the Universidad Gastón Dachary. Aware of the socio-historical tensions and contradictions that determine human relationships and positions, we participate in the diagnosis, planning and management of actions that contribute to the development of public policies with organized interlocutors and concrete demands, which requires us to take a reflective and critical position in relation to the knowledge generated.