Um terreno de promessas: reflexões sobre alguns trajetos políticos na comunidade Portelinha (Curitiba-PR)

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of a research journey triggered by questions about the practice of base work and popular education within popular movements, especially the ones based in community action. The journey included stages of theoretical reading and reflection associated with field research conducted in the Portelinha Community, an urban occupation located in Curitiba, Paraná, which has been demanding basic services such as water and electricity, as well as land regularization for 16 years. It was from some of the community's demands that the “Movimento de Organização de Base - Paraná” (MOB-PR) was built, which then began some paths that this research took advantage of to build analyses. In the reflections on the field, I explored the meanings surrounding fire, which was used to represent, through gentle and rough fire, phenomena that occurred on the paths taken. At the end of the journey, it was possible to elaborate considerations on the current possibilities of base work and popular education incorporated into popular movements (what they can and how they can, for example); also some of their main tasks considering possible limitations; and finally, significant contributions that these works can offer to popular movements, which I highlight: i. education for sensitivity and self-organization; ii. education for the construction of political memory and systematization of local knowledge; and iii. collective construction of "other moments". Regarding these contributions, I classified them as part of survival technologies and what I called the science of fire, which is the ability to deal with fire-phenomena in continuous cadence, based on a relationship composed of work, resilience, and time.