Notes for knowledge production and community mobilization:by networks of networks

Abstract

The complexity of the social and environmental challenges of the 21st century points to the search for cooperation and that knowledge, management and communities are articulated in an innovative and creative way. Overcoming the production of asymmetric, unilateral and binding knowledge must move towards the creation of cooperative mechanisms that promote equality, but also respect the diversity of networks. We present our careful élan of the II International Seminar on Disaster Denaturalization, from the point of view of community mobilization, which constitutes a set of reflections that we consider essential for facing the conformation that the socio-historical nexus of Brazilian society has been taking in recent years, which has made us a global example of inequality in the distribution of wealth and which compromises the very ways of living today. We are faced with the need for a social technology that is capable of giving visibility to community networks, stabilizing them, preventing the combination of management and socio-technical networks from looking at community networks as an informed mass, devoid of ties and knowledge. Without it, our difficulties in the face of disasters, emergencies and climate change will be devastating. We counter this trend because all lives matter!

Keywords: Disaster denaturalization. community mobilization. Networks. Resistances. Amplified crises.