Saberes agroecológicos na franja metropolitana de Belo Horizonte: uma resistência à globalização hegemônica

Abstract

Capital's globalization, in many places, is a phenomenon that has aroused resistance to its transformations, as well as revealed the emergent necessities of practices that enhance local culture. The agroecological fair Raízes do Campo held in the city of Jaboticatubas -north of Belo Horizonte – appears to be going the opposite direction of globalization: they value local knowledge and build alternative ways of economics and socialization that subvert the logics of thehegemonic capitalist system. Therefore, the fair presents itself as a place of political struggle and cultural practices. It is so not only because of the fair workers' resistance, but also due to the presence of fair sponsors and the valuation of local products as well as traditional knowledge, and that turns the fair into a counter-hegemonic power. This study was carried on through research-action, fieldwork, and bibliographical research trying to answer questions about the upwelling of places of resistance and culture from the Raízes do Campo fair and the possibility of a counter-hegemonic globalization through the works of Amanu Association.