Environmental and territorial transformations through the collective praxis of recovery of degraded areas in the rural settlement Nova Esperança, Euclides da Cunha Paulista/SP

This text deals with the materialization of reflective thinking, based on the concept of praxis, in which the authors dis-cuss the social and environmental transformations that have occurred in the territory of Pontal do Paranapanema-SP, by various social agents, including the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), in the Nova Esperança Rural Settlement, having os its pillar the decolonial and territorial thinking of peasant women. The concrete fact is expressed in projects to recover areas degraded by water erosion, where nature is transformed by various social actors, but also by human beings themselves, who become alienated from their own awareness of also being nature. In this case, especially peasants who maintain a topophilic relationship with the land: a relationship of affection, identity, belonging, which also guarantees society’s food and nutritional security, are the resistance.