Environmental Education and democracy:

Between political constituencies, florestanias and assemblies

Abstract

This article, written in an essayistic manner, aims to bring to the multiple field of environmental education a conceptual debate around the notion of democracy, especially about its most radical perspectives, conceived by the Italian philosopher Antonio Negri as constituent power. It is divided into three parts, in addition to the introduction and final considerations: at first, discusses the notion of radical democracy, as a power and political practice of multiple multitudes; the second part debates the constituent powers – or constituencies – and constituent power, as a democratic exercise in the construction of other forms of human existence, and combating their crystallization and erasure by the capital-state; and finally, it brings the notions of florestania and assembly as possibilities of developing about environmental education as potentially constituent practices, of refusal to domestication and erasure promoted by the constituted power.