Knowing the trajectory of the emergence of 'novelties': family farmers, recreations and transformations in rural areas of southern Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

Adjustments and rearrangements in social relationships and work, new configurations of meaning and reinventions of practices and techniques are constantly taking place in the daily lives of farmers, which leaves room in this scenario for the emergence of 'news'. Grounded in these ideas and in light of the Actor-Oriented Perspective, this article, which is based on a qualitative research study conducted in the municipalities of São Lourenço do Sul and Pelotas, identifies the emergence of three 'news', which can be evidenced by the constitution South of the Cooperative Ecological, by building new markets, institutional (school meals) and local (fairs) and the establishment of the Agribusiness Figueira do Prado, and analyzes the history of emergence of these 'news', indicating that these 'news' that are largely related to the sharing of knowledge, local characteristics, heterogeneity and dynamism of social action, seem to indicate a change of development in rural areas in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul.