El desarrollo y la colonialidad del poder. Análisis de dos experiencias agroecológicas de la Provincia del Chaco

Abstract

Over the past 70 years, the development as a powerful-idea spread out the hegemony of capitalism, promoting the production and reproduction of their logic in multiple dimensions. It hides the process of domination, exploitation and conflict, which is necessary for the imposition of the development on Western stile. It was conceptualized under the sign of freedom of choice, the social inclusion in the global world and the access to welfare by consumption. However, alternative experiences to the capitalism emerge within the system, where the concept of coloniality of power identifies the dimensions that are part of the process of domination, exploitation and conflict for the economic development itself, and admits to explore how actors adapt these dimensions from the practice, reverse them or overcome them. In this framework we will investigate the production process of organization and interaction in two agroecological cooperatives in Chaco. The specific experiences, analyzed in a qualitative exploratory research with ethnographically-anchor, show logical alternatives to the capitalist ones in some dimensions, but also similar in others. Nature does not seem to be a production factor, and the human being is part of it. The environment is mixed with politics, and the expert-scientific knowledge intersects with peasant-indigenous knowledge in the production. The fact of inserting in the market and the price definition carries with the capitalists “rationality “. The modern-capitalist logics mix with others and are built and redefined. Its importance lies in that they allow to look from a different place to modernity and demand a different understanding within the social sciences.