Rede Carioca de Agricultura Urbana: agroecologia, comunicação e cidadania na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This research on Communication and the development of citizenship, carried out with part of the Rio de Janeiro agroecological movement: the Rio de Janeiro Urban Agriculture Network (CAU Network). Active in the city of Rio de Janeiro since 2009, this networked social movement disputes the right to the city according to an agroecological reading of reality. The overall objective is to understand the processes of communication for citizenship carried out by the Rio de Janeiro Urban Agriculture Network. It is a participant research, cartographic in nature, in addition to using the application of conversations and semi-structured interviews. The research investigates how development proposals can be understood as inducing or dissuading citizenship processes, and understands agroecology as a development proposal for citizenship. Part of a larger cultural front, which involves other organizational spheres of the Brazilian agroecological movement, the communication and dialogue actions between groups that weave the CAU Network are studied according to a dialogical communication framework. It demonstrates the specificities of Rio's agroecology, which is carried out through the mediations imposed by the city. It describes the communication repertoires used by Rede CAU, which seek advances in the field of citizenship. It is concluded that agroecology can be understood as a communication process for citizenship, which seeks, in the realization of the right to the city, its way of exercising.