Co-production of knowledge: a transdiclinary experience for the construction of alternatives to extractivism

Abstract

The expansion of extractive dynamics in recent decades, has deepened socio -environmental and socio -health conflict in our country. These conflicts have staged a series of citizen demands for the right to health, to the healthy environment, to the good living, which expose the enormous impact of these dynamics on health and environment.

Within the framework of these conflicts, in which from the state policy the communities are questioned to translate their practical knowledge (perception of their bodies and territories) in expert knowledge, the production of knowledge has become a central conflict factor. Universities, such as spaces for production and knowledge circulation, have in this conflict a fundamental place that requires being problematized. The links that universities establish with these social spaces raise multiple challenges about the character of socially legitimate knowledge, about the conceptions of university link / extension and on the public communication of science.

From the experiences of work with territorial organizations in three municipalities of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (RMBA): Escobar, Marcos Paz and exaltation of the cross, we will reflect on how it occurs and who are the subjects of the production of knowledge, Under what conditions and how knowledge produced, what is its social relevance and what is the role of the scientific field in a collision scenario between different spheres of law. To do this, we emphasize the co-production of knowledge, the transdisciplinary approach and the emphasis on the construction of alternatives from the collective health approach.