Viver de forma sustentável ou contribuir para a sustentabilidade do capital? As contradições que permeiam a práxis das ecovilas em tempos neoliberais

Abstract

This Article seeks to analyze critically some
of the aspects that permeate the praxis of the
ecovillage movement, focusing the discussion on
the contradictions have arisen with the inflection
of these experiences – called “alternatives” – to
the logic that governs the accumulation of capital.
We argue here that the ecovillage movement
configures the most recent step in a phenomenon
called “Spatial Counterculture”, whose origins
can be traced back in the second half of the 19th
century and that, from the 1990s – with the
deepening of the contradictions and conflicts
engendered by globalization of neoliberalism –,
it seems again regain strength. It is, in fact, a brief
systematization of some of the questions that
have arisen during the completion of the doctoral
thesis entitled Ilusão concreta, Utopia possível:
Contraculturas Espaciais e Permacultura (uma
mirada desde o cone sul), defended in July 2013
in the Program of Human Geography, Faculty
of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and
Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo
(FFLCH-USP).