COMMUNITIES Utopia, community and ecological alternatives. The return to the countryside in Portuguese-speaking countries

07/01/2025

Luis Toledo Machado, researcher at CISPAC and member of the HISTAGRA research group, has just launched the website “ECOMUNIDADES Utopia, community and ecological alternatives. The return to the countryside in Portuguese-speaking countries”. This postdoctoral project, developed at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) with the support of the Xunta de Galicia, aims to rethink the formation of rural ecological communities in the Portuguese-speaking area between the 1960s and 1980s. The main focus is on the transnational exchanges that facilitated the circulation of these practices and on the transformations that these utopian initiatives generated in the conception of the relationship between human beings and nature.

The website, based on the principles of Open Science, will progressively incorporate various research tools and updated information on the development of the project. It currently has a collaborative map with more than 100 communities in Brazil, which allows new entries to be added by residents of these initiatives, specialists and interested people:

For more information and to participate in the project, you can visit the official website by clicking here .

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