ABSTRACT

Latin America is known for social movement organization and innovation, and for dialog among different types of knowledge (‘dialogo de saberes’). This has included dialog between academic knowledges framed by Western science, popular and ancestral ‘peoples’ knowledges and wisdoms,’ and so-called critical thought from global and Latin American revolutionary traditions. We postulate that a specifically Latin American agroecology has emerged from these dynamics. While the global academy recognizes that agroecology is simultaneously a science (in the Western sense), a movement, and a practice, it is the emergent Latin American version that is the most politically charged and popularly organized. This contribution uses a survey of selected Latin American agroecologists to evaluate the extent to which such a critical Latin American agroecology actually exists, and if so, what its characteristics are.

摘要

拉丁美洲以社会运动的组织和创新以及不同类型的知识之间的对话（“ dialogo de saberes”）而闻名。这包括西方科学构架的学术知识，大众和祖先的“人民的知识与智慧”之间的对话，以及所谓的批判性思维来自全球和拉丁美洲的革命传统。我们假设从这些动态中已经出现了一种特别的拉丁美洲农业生态。尽管全球研究院都认识到农业生态学同时是一门科学（从西方意义上来说），一种运动和一种实践，但新兴的拉丁美洲版本却在政治上受到了最强烈的掌控，并得到了最广泛的组织。这项贡献使用了对部分拉丁美洲农业生态学家的调查来评估这种关键的拉丁美洲农业生态的实际存在程度，如果存在，其特征是什么。