Ame-es: associativismo digital e ativismo ambiental da meliponicultura capixaba

Abstract

This work aimed to study the Association of Meliponiculturists of Espírito Santo - AME / ES, through its channels of interaction with its members and stakeholders, such as the group “Meliponicultura - ES 2”, in the WhatsApp platform, on social networks, in face-to-face events and through discursive interviews with social actors relevant to the research. The work has as theoretical basis the discussions of the authors Enrique Leff and Félix Guattari, on Political Ecology and Environmental Rationality, which cross the micropolitical process of environmental activism, the studies by Lígia Lüchmann on associativism and as a methodological basis, the directions of ethnographic by Paul Little, Daniel Miller and Don Slater. The aim is to understand the impact of the Association's actions for the construction of an environmental rationality, between members and non-members, enhanced by the use of digital resources. In this analysis, the study is connected to Critical Environmental Education and to the pollination processes of stingless bees, which open the debate about Nature Based Solution. As a result, it can be said that social networks are potentializing tools for associativism practiced by AME-ES, contributing considerably to the construction of a more sustainable reality, fostering the environmental activism in the Espírito Santo meliponiculture.