À la recherche de savoirs perdus? Expérience, innovation et savoirs incorporés chez des agriculteurs biologiques au Québec

There has been relatively little research in the social sciences on knowledge generated and exchanged by farmers in modern Western contexts. Yet organic farmers in Quebec are at the heart of an intense innovation that is re-creating local knowledge on various elements of the living environment. They...

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Main Author: Mary Richardson
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Language:fra
Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO 2005-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/2926
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description There has been relatively little research in the social sciences on knowledge generated and exchanged by farmers in modern Western contexts. Yet organic farmers in Quebec are at the heart of an intense innovation that is re-creating local knowledge on various elements of the living environment. They are reviving ancestral knowledge, developing new knowledge in light of scientific research, and constructing their own embodied forms of knowledge through practice, experimentation, observation, and trial and error, which they then share with other farmers, students and clients. This knowledge creation and sharing is part of a broader social change advocating a more ethical and ecological relation to nature (non-humans). The epistemological authority of science (in particular agronomy) is contested in favour of an ethical and holistic epistemology.
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À la recherche de savoirs perdus? Expérience, innovation et savoirs incorporés chez des agriculteurs biologiques au Québec
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environment
Québec
local knowledge
organic agriculture
organic farming
knowledge exchange
title À la recherche de savoirs perdus? Expérience, innovation et savoirs incorporés chez des agriculteurs biologiques au Québec
title_full À la recherche de savoirs perdus? Expérience, innovation et savoirs incorporés chez des agriculteurs biologiques au Québec
title_fullStr À la recherche de savoirs perdus? Expérience, innovation et savoirs incorporés chez des agriculteurs biologiques au Québec
title_full_unstemmed À la recherche de savoirs perdus? Expérience, innovation et savoirs incorporés chez des agriculteurs biologiques au Québec
title_short À la recherche de savoirs perdus? Expérience, innovation et savoirs incorporés chez des agriculteurs biologiques au Québec
title_sort a la recherche de savoirs perdus experience innovation et savoirs incorpores chez des agriculteurs biologiques au quebec
topic environment
Québec
local knowledge
organic agriculture
organic farming
knowledge exchange
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