Os movimentos nos mercados: movimentos de agroecologia em São Joaquim/SC

Abstract

The economic institutionalization of social movements in the context of "new economic social movements," became a reality in recent years. We examine the market relationship of the agroecological apple producers of São Joaquim (SC) as part of this process, discussing: a) the emergence of social movement organizations in the city, which stimulated the production in clear opposition to the modernization of agriculture, b) involvement of these producers in two large circuits where they negotiate their production, agro-ecological and organic. The pathfinder of this analysis is the social networks that sustain this process and the circuits in which producers enter. We conclude that the market relations in which those producers are involved are sustained both in work with production, and work with the policy. That means working with agroecology, where the gains are uncertain and are coupled to the ideological and moral principles, the technical obstacles, the tangle of social relations and symbolic meanings.