Non-extractive collaborative methodologies and communication: combining knowledge and feelings in a creative way for social emancipation

Abstract

This article discusses the proposal of non-extractive collaborative methodologies and their relationship to the communication based on the works of Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Based on authors such as Orlando Fals Borda and Paulo Freire, Santos questions qualitative methodologies which extract knowledge that is separated from social struggles, and also they not recognize the knowledge of the investigated subjects. Based on this reference and a research on documentaries produced in the context of social struggles against pesticides and agroecology, we seek to raise methodological relational possibilities that point to processes of co-labor-action and co-creation. The construction of new narratives and knowledge dilutes the rigid boundaries between science and art; moreover, it restores and advances in the Freirean perspective to become the communication a common action. Narrative interviews and storytelling of oral literature are examples given in this article that point to a theoretical poetic approach as an alternative to qualitative methodology