Interventions in the peasant habitat: a critical readingfrom the perspective of decolonial social technology

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to constructing a theoretical-conceptual framework facing a critical understanding of the peasant habitat. Methodologically, we first retrieved some theoretical developments in the field of decolonial studies and, after that, we conceptualize a social technology that takes the fundamental elements of this theoretical perspective. This conceptualization aims to produce an analytical device that allows a critical reading of State interventions in the field of rural-peasant habitat. Its main virtue is to provoke the denaturalization of three associations:  between "poverty" and "eradication", between "rurality" and "backwardness" and between "technology" and "neutrality". Thenceforth, we propose to contribute to the gestation of expressly political technologies that, instead of eradicating, seek to rescue peasant knowledge and, instead of modernizing, seek to strengthen their ways of living.