Extended Action-Research Community: building knowledge and practices in daily and affective dialogue with the territory

Abstract

The article aims to discuss the lessons learned from the Extended Action-Research Community (CAP) in  favelas in Rio de Janeiro, as a contribution to  conceptual and methodological discussions in the  field of Public Health, from the perspective of  Emancipatory Health Promotion and Popular Education. With the CAPs, we seek to respond to one  of the main challenges of qualitative research in favelas: a methodological construction that makes it  possible to understand the way the residents of these  territories experience and respond to health  situations. The territory, as an integrative category of analysis to understand the processes of social  determination of health, requires CAP to configure  itself with a network of interdisciplinary dialogues and between different social agents. The analysis of the documentary material base produced in the period  2003-2020, using the systematization of experience as a research methodology, resulted in the identification  of three axes that structure the CAP method: 1) everyday life as the dynamics gear of CAP; 2) territory  and the social agents of dialogue; and 3) artisanal tools to collaborate with the territory. Based on these  axes, we conclude that the CAP method is a network for knowledge production and dialogue between  people-places-territories.