Paths, knowledge and local wisdom: challenges regarding social projects implementation

Nowadays we belong to a world subordinated to capital gain rationality, where concentration of scientific and technological capabilities is linked to concentration of earnings and profits. In that way, knowledge becomes an instrument of domination and supremacy. Latin America, especially our country...

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Autor principal: Perusset, Macarena
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Humanidades Universidad Nacional del Comahue 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/geografia/article/view/1367
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Sumario:Nowadays we belong to a world subordinated to capital gain rationality, where concentration of scientific and technological capabilities is linked to concentration of earnings and profits. In that way, knowledge becomes an instrument of domination and supremacy. Latin America, especially our country, inside this frameturns into a generator of raw materials and take up a stance of dependency of central countries. Against this background, we propose in this paper the enormous potential that our countries have to develop science and technology for social inclusion primary for strategic sectors linked to land use and the use and conservation ofnatural resources and leveraging knowledge pondering and customs of local communities for employment opportunities.