On The Edge Of The Road: Intersections Of Cinema In Environmental Education

Abstract

What does cinema teach us in Environmental Education processes? The landless odyssey of undertaking the recording of peasants’ life stories - while land reform projects are being carried out - in order to think about their world in its dynamics and fluidity. How to write a composition that starts with William Pollack’s and Alistair Thomson’s views and includes Michel Foucault’s, Gilles Deleuze’s and Felix Guattari’s thoughts on history, subjectivation processes, time and memory in order to look at those stories as facts and subjects which have become what they are now, rather than objects full of dust which were thrown into an inert tomb. On the edge of the road, running on the wrong side of the street, redoing houses, strolling around, disrupting flows and creating leakage, decayed bodies, almost monsters, saltimbancos, crooked heroes, masqueraded dancers from some carnival reporting that the criminal, the homeless, the ones who live on the edge of the road are also part of the whole. This inference enables us to talk about the relations among the Environmental Education practice, the collection of memories and the production of subjectivation ways by discussing alternative theoretical views in Environmental Education which teach Environmental Education itself how to create fables, make up fiction, be poetic, laugh, play the drums and make movies.