Pesquisa e Extensão como estratégias de articulação popular durante a Pandemia: formação coletiva sobre a questão da mineração

Abstract

The expansion of the mineral frontier contributed to the recrudescence of mining conflicts that had a great impact on the field, reaching the populations in their diversity. The mining-agrarian conflicts result from a mineral model based on the capitalization of nature and the exploration of its benefits. This context demands two movements of struggle for a resistance, increasingly more qualified, that manages to understand the contradictions linked to mineral capital and confront the injustices that affect their territories of life. This perspective, facing challenges imposed by the pandemic caused by Coronavírus, the Coordination of Confrontation to the Mineral Model in Defense of Life in Bahia carried out an extension activity entitled Formation: Impacts and Realities of the Mineral Model in Bahia. This manuscript presents the aforementioned experience of collective training, developed in a virtual format and carried out in three cycles: I What is it, how does it work and what is it for CFEM?; II  Water Issue and Mining in Bahia; and, III The use of the Mining Geographic Information System. The results demonstrate the importance of research and extension activities for the training process, mobilization and articulation of community bases, around common interests.