Experiências, agências e afetividade: emergência de redes cognitivas no território do sisal

Abstract

This thesis research was born from our insertion in the Sisal Territory,from work carried out at the University of the State of Bahia (UNEB), Campus 14, Conceição do Coité-BA. It aims to analyze how the Cognitive Networks (ReCo) that emerge from the experiences, knowledge, knowledge and affection of the agents who work in the production units of the rural communities of the production Cooperatives “Sabores da Terra”, “Delícias da Mandioca” (community of Papagaio) and “Fibras do Sertão”, in Valente-BA, in the Sisal Territory, in the semi-arid region of the State, from Bahia. For this, we approach the theories of Habitats, as well as Social Systems from the Cognitive Network Analysis (ReCo) and Cognitive Analysis (AnCo). The research enables the development of multidisciplinary interfaces that permeate the Theories of Social Systems, Theories of Networks and Entanglements, Complexity, and the concepts of Affectivity, Agencies, Cognitive Analysis, Knowledge Diffusion, Experiences, Territory, and Cognitive Networks. Thus, we highlight the interactions and connections that form a set of knowledge within a qualitative research perspective, using the methodological procedures of participant observation, ethnography, free interviews, and document analysis. Thus, we observe that such experiences and knowledge materialize in local productions in affectivity from their own and appropriate expressive and complex elements, that is, in the process of re-elaborating reality and experiences in the Sisal Territory where different forms of life. Finally, we show the diffusion of the knowledge culture and present a theoretical-methodological model for Cognitive Analysis (AnCo) in other territories, in successive researches. We characterize an autopoietic knowledge system that works in the form of meshes and wefts in operations that we call Cognitive Networks (ReCo) in the Sisal Territory.