Refazenda: jardinagem e micropolítica

Abstract

The potentialities of relations between gardens and gardeners, and the relation between gardening and micropolitics appear in this in­vestigation as a common-political experience: other localities, other farms, other gardens... Other possibilities to resist and reappear as green strongholds among contemporary cities: refazenda. By means of the undertaken wanders through the country, the construction and main­tenance of experimental dialogs with urban ecologies, there is an at­tempt of a green cartography through which some questions come about: Where are the community gardens; how they are made; how they strengthen themselves; which are the conflicts and difficulties in confronting the current politics; and how to potentialize the construction of other aes­thetical-political-ecosophical references. These questions dont take us quite often to literal answers, but instead, to dialogs. Regardless, there is a practical alternative to gardens, places of cultivation (cul­ture) and processual experiments of the land. Resistants, resilients and potentialy autonomous places that appear in cities, for the construction of insurgent ecological micropolitics.