Abstract

FIGUEIREDO, Eugênia Bridget Gadelha  and  SAWAIA, Bader Burihan. Traditional communities and socio-environmental conflicts: and psychology with it?. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.49, pp. 551-563. ISSN 2175-1390.

The central concern of this theoretical exercise is to seek ways of overcoming the effects of ethical-political suffering produced in the socio-environmental conflicts that go through the constitution of the social exclusion/ inclusion process of traditional communities in Brazil. We understand that the defense of a common habitable world involves strengthening traditional communities and that the defense of their socio-environmental knowledge, territories and practices is a strategic political-ecological act for humanity. Thus, without discrediting the strength of the “feeling of belonging” that configures identities/ singularities, we propose the necessary expansion of movements / ideas that contribute to the composition of bodies more permeable to the “feeling of the common”. This affection has, as its ethical principle, the recognition of other bodies as a powerful of life and transformation action, and as a political principle the appropriation of common interest as a personal interest. In this sense, we defend the improvement of human relations as the ethical-political horizon of social psychology.

Keywords : Ethical-political suffering; Traditional community; Socio-environmental conflicts; Feeling of the common; Psychology.

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