Workshop as a transforming pedagogical experience in mining-extractive territories of northwest argentino

Abstract

With the aim of building tools for social transformation and thinking pluralistic and resilient horizons from territories stressed by mining extractivism, I report in this article the experience of workshops held at Educational Institutions in Andalgalá, province of Catamarca (Argentina). The workshop as a dynamic that fosters the collective construction of knowledge, enables us to get closer to the reality of the subjects, to see emerging connections and contradictions and to value the coexistence of different ways of inhabiting the territory. Understanding that we are historical and situated subjects, we place centrality in the subject whose enunciation is crossed by relations of power and domination, but also by desires and utopias. Thus, from the differentiated historical experiences of the subjects, it is possible to recognize narratives imbued with concealment, marginality and silencing of practices and knowledge by the rationality of the State and capital, to strengthen processes of dialogue, confrontation, reflection and action.