Territorial development and ecological justice from an ecosocialist-communal planning perspective. Transforming popular knowledge

Abstract

This study aims to generate critical and contextualized transformative processes regarding communal ecosocialist planning, which constitutes a transformative paradigm for territorial development and ecological justice in the Pie de Sabana Bolivariana circuit, Trujillo State. Grounded in the socio-critical paradigm, the study uses Participatory Action Research (PAR) to promote a horizontal and emancipatory dialogue of knowledge. Methodologically, a participatory and reflective qualitative approach was applied, involving social actors in the collective construction of knowledge through a research process that includes participatory diagnosis, the design and implementation of action plans, and the reflective systematization of emerging learning and knowledge, employing interviews, participant observation, and qualitative systematization. The results indicate that the co-production of knowledge facilitates territorialization and decolonization in the face of extractivist logics. It is concluded that this practice, aligned with the 7T Homeland Plan, strengthens sovereignty and the emancipation of popular power, consolidating an environmentally sustainable, just, and socially contextualized model of territorial management.