The Communication Practice as a Right in Brazil: Resistance to Mercantilization/Existence in People’s Lives and Territories by Means of Socioenvironmental Educommunication

This article describes how socioenvironmental educommunication has consolidated in Brazil as a Latin American practice and epistemology that asserts communication as a human right and as a resistance instrument against mercantilization of lives and territories. With Freirian fundamental argument, Martín-Barbero's mediations and Kaplún's Communicative Pedagogy as a starting point, it is shown that educommunication strengthens dialogical, critical and collective practices. Based on 203 initiatives mapped by the Educom&Clima project, this manuscript evidences how civil society organizations, schools and social movements mobilize edu-communicative strategies to face the climate emergency, although topics such as climate justice and environmental racism are still less addressed. In addition, data from the research study entitled “The Oiá WAR: Communication, Women and Energy Transition” reveal resistance on the part of Sertanejo women, highlighting edu-communicative practices that denounce the impacts exerted by Green Neocolonialism on the energy transition and announce the value of the ancestral wisdom that sustains the threatened territories.