The practices of the Chinampa understood as a transactional experience Alternatives for the construction of a communal political subjectivity
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Based on Dewey's notion of experience, closely related to his theory of action from a transactional perspective, this text argues that the experience of chinampera communities illustrates what it means for the pragmatist to have an experience, understood as the interrelation between the environment and human beings with particular attention to their feelings. The starting point is the idea that human beings constantly face problematic situations that initially cause them to suffer; subsequently, through reflection and a process of valuation, aware of the necessity for resolution, they are capable of projecting an end and thereby transforming their conditions of existence into acts of self-expression. An example of this process of transactionality and transformation lies in the experiences of chinampera communities with the preservation of the axolotl, the recovery of their traditional music, cuisine, and medicine, sustainable agroecological systems such as the milpa, as well as the education of younger generations to preserve their ecosystem threatened by diverse factors such as urbanization and soil degradation due to agrochemicals. The conclusion is that transactional actions imply ethical and political responsibility on the part of the agents who execute them because the consequences that impact others and their environments can foster conditions of epistemic injustice and oppression.
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