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On the motivation of rethinking the 50-year-old but still vigorous book “Pedagogy of the oppressed,” written by Paulo Freire, this chapter brings an overview of provocative contemporary issues and circumstances, demanding participatory production of knowledge and collective action. The background is structured on themes associating crisis on sustainability and health, raising dimensions of determinants that were not quite recognized when Freire published his book. Also, the flagrant of uncertainties on scientific statements and related decision-making of the end of the twentieth century induce a crucial discussion within the current scenario, challenging the production of a new and socially robust scientific knowledge. Post-normal science is presented as a pertinent criticism, and the related proposal of extended peer communities is assumed as a call for participatory approaches, as a sort of dialogical alternatives to involving different social actors. Such methodological perspective is argued to overlap the conventional reproduction of “normal” science, correspondent relations of knowledge and power, and a framework unable to deal with contemporary complexities.
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Giatti, L.L. (2019). Introduction: The Relevance of Participatory Approaches Towards Contemporary Dilemmas. In: Participatory Research in the Post-Normal Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27924-0_1
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